FIS and Anthropic Collaborate to Enable Agent-First Banks
FIS and Anthropic Collaborate to Enable Agent-First Banks
Publish Date: 2026-05-04 20:54:00
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- FIS and Anthropic have collaborated to develop a Financial Crimes AI Agent designed to accelerate anti-money laundering (AML) investigations within minutes.
- This AI agent will initially be deployed by BMO and Amalgamated Bank and will become more widely available in the second half of the year.
- The next step for FIS involves building additional AI agents independently using Anthropic’s Claude models to cover areas like credit decisioning, deposit retention, customer onboarding, and fraud prevention.
- These new agents will be made available to financial institution clients via a unified, governed platform under FIS’ product roadmap.
- FIS CEO Stephanie Ferris emphasized the importance of banks adopting “agent-first” AI that performs actions, not just assists, providing a trusted provider role in managing data and governing AI decisions.
- Anthropic’s Head of Financial Services Jonathan Pelosi highlighted the integration and data transparency practices that make every decision traceable to its source, maintaining investigator control.
