Anthropic and FIS are building an AI agent to help banks police financial crimes

Anthropic and FIS are jointly developing an AI agent engineered for direct embedding inside financial institutions.

The system will help banks police financial crime by independently investigating drug traffickers, terrorists and other criminals using the financial system.

It draws on FIS’s extensive financial data and systems combined with Anthropic’s Claude AI.

The agent operates without constant user supervision and can amass evidence across multiple sources including transactions and account information.

This significantly reduces cost and time per case while human investigators retain final decision-making authority.