FIS® (NYSE:FIS), the financial technology company powering nearly 12% of the global economy, today announced that it is working with Anthropic to bring agentic AI to banking, beginning with the Financial Crimes AI Agent. The agent will compress anti-money-laundering investigations from hours to minutes, automatically assembling evidence across a bank's core systems, evaluating activity against known typologies, and surfacing the highest-risk cases for investigator review. BMO and Amalgamated Bank will be among the first institutions to deploy the agent, with broader availability planned for H2 2026. Anthropic's Applied AI team and forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) are embedded with FIS to co-design the Financial Crimes AI Agent and transfer knowledge so FIS can build and scale additional agents independently over time.

This is a strategic initiative, informed by client need, with a clear view toward where banking is headed and a commitment to get there safely and at scale. FIS is combining its decades of proprietary financial data and infrastructure representing billions of transactions, deep regulatory expertise, and the compliance and fraud systems that underpin the global financial system with Anthropic's frontier AI reasoning, to create a single platform.

"Every bank in the world wants AI that acts, not just assists. The future is about a trusted provider who manages the data, who governs the agents, and who stands between your customers and the AI making decisions about their money. FIS built the architecture that orchestrates this intelligence. Anthropic is a leading AI provider, Claude is the reasoning engine inside, and the Financial Crimes AI Agent is the first proof of what this architecture can deliver for financial institutions that are ready to become the agent-first bank of the future. It's a new era in banking."