Fintech company FIS® (NYSE:FIS) 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.

Stephanie Ferris, CEO and President, FIS, commented:

“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.”

Jonathan Pelosi, Head of Financial Services, Anthropic, commented:

“FIS brings decades of trusted relationships with financial institutions, deep regulatory knowledge, and the transaction data that makes an AI agent useful in practice. That’s why FIS chose Claude, they needed a model that could reason through complex investigations accurately, explain its work, and operate safely inside regulated workflows. We embedded our Applied AI team inside FIS to build the Financial Crimes AI Agent together, so every conclusion the agent reaches links back to its source data, and every decision stays with the investigator.”

FIS is operating as the foundation, which includes the data platform, the governance layer, the deployment infrastructure, and the client relationships. Through FIS’s data and AI platform — client data will remain within FIS-controlled infrastructure at all times. Anthropic’s Claude models are powering the reasoning capabilities across the strategy. Anthropic’s Applied AI and forward-deployed engineers are co-designing the inaugural Financial Crimes AI agent, while FIS’s product and compliance teams will build additional agents purpose-built for bank-grade operations. This architecture leverages FIS’s Orchestrated Intelligence to deliver AI enterprise-scale outcomes when the data, infrastructure, and governance underneath it are unified.

Financial crimes is the first proof point. FIS is building a roadmap of curated agents on the same platform, each purpose-built for a specific banking pain point, each drawing on FIS’s unified data and regulatory infrastructure, each powered by Claude.

The roadmap ahead spans credit decisioning, deposit retention, customer onboarding, and fraud prevention, which will be available to FIS financial institution clients through a single, governed platform.