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FIS Brings Agentic AI to Banking with Anthropic, Starting with Financial Crimes
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 04, 2026--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 investiga
About this update from Amalgamated Financial Corp.
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