This project is part of a broader FIS strategy to build AI agents for regulated banking operations, combining FIS’s infrastructure with Anthropic’s AI reasoning and governance through the Orchestrated Intelligence platform.

Anthropic’s Claude is positioned to reason through complex investigations, explain its work, and operate safely within regulated workflows, with conclusions directly linked to source data.

BMO and Amalgamated Bank are expected to be early adopters, with wider availability planned for the second half of 2026.

FIS and Anthropic are co-launching a Financial Crimes AI Agent to assist AML investigations by automatically gathering evidence, cross-checking activity against money-laundering typologies, and flagging high-risk cases for review.

The agent’s processing keeps client data within FIS-controlled infrastructure to ensure governance and security.

Anthropic embedded its Applied AI team and engineers inside FIS to design the platform and develop future AI agents, leveraging Claude models.

FIS CEO Stephanie Ferris said banks want AI that can take actions independently, calling the Financial Crimes AI Agent a proof of concept for an agent-first banking future.