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The Audit – Explainable AI in AFC 

April 2026

How are financial institutions reducing investigation costs with agentic AI?

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Dr. Felix Berkhahn

Chief Data Scientist

Every financial institution should be looking at agentic AI for financial crime investigations right now. The cost savings are simply too compelling to ignore.

 

Consider investigations today: 

  • 75% of investigation time can be spent on data collection: customer records, transaction history, external databases and more
  • 95% of those investigations will be false positives 
  • $30-70 dollars can be sunk into each false positive investigation

The question that financial crime and compliance teams need to ask is simple: if agentic AI can cut the $30–$70 cost even in half, why keep doing it the old way? 

 

Agentic AI takes on the "heavy lifting" of your investigations - the work that can drain a team’s time and energy – by: 

  • Automating data gathering

  • Summarizing critical case details 

  • Identifying specific crime typologies involved  

  • Recommending next steps and actions for analyst review
  • Drafting Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) narratives

Clearly, the benefits will scale very, very quickly if you have a lot of investigations.  

 

I’ve been Chief Data Scientist here at Hawk for several years and have worked on many impressive projects in that time.  

 

But I'm especially proud of our new AML Investigative Agent, one of several domain-specific AI agents that Hawk has launched for financial crime and compliance.

 

It's changing lives – accelerating and improving every analyst's investigation capabilities so they can focus on the really complex and interesting work. 

 

It also enables financial institutions to avoid adding headcount to cope with backlogs. As a result, firms can launch more products, knowing it won't flood their compliance teams with investigations they can’t manage.   

Last - but definitely not least - it also enables FIs to detect more crime, because more data can be processed for investigations than a human could ever cover.

 

👉 Find out how Hawk agentic technology can help your investigations, or get in touch for a demo.

 

Research

What Do Anti-Financial Crime Leaders Think About Agentic AI?

If you’re looking for data on adoption of agentic AI for financial crime and compliance, you can find it in Hawk’s report with Chartis: AI in Financial Crime and Compliance - Charting the Path from Pilot to Maturity. 

 

The highlights: 

  • 33% of anti-financial crime professionals believe that agentic AI will lead to a major shift in how compliance and risk work is done

  • 61% ranked case investigations as the #1 area that agentic will transform

  • 85% expect agentic AI investment to grow at their institution

  • 10% say agentic AI will significantly reduce staffing, with 42% opting for ‘moderately reduce headcount’  

👉 See all the data and reports.  

 

In Other News

Hawk Named Top 20 Global Leader by Chartis

Which technologies are shaping the future of financial crime compliance? The 2026 Chartis Financial Crime and Compliance 50 highlights the trends that are driving the industry forward—and shows why Hawk secured the #18 spot overall. We also won the category award for Innovation in Real-Time Transaction Monitoring for the second year running. Read more trends.

 

Commerzbank Optimizes AML with Hawk 

Hawk is collaborating with Commerzbank to optimize its internal banking processes using AI. Through this implementation, Commerzbank has increased the accuracy of alerts and reduced false positives, and detected more novel cases of money laundering or fraud. Read more.

 

How to Overcome Model Governance Challenges

Our research with Chartis says that financial crime and compliance leaders are facing challenges around model governance. 83% say they have difficulty interpreting or trusting model outputs, while 70% say they've had model performance issues. See the data - and find out how Hawk can help with model governance. 

 

Upcoming Events-v3

We'll be at several events in April - if you're attending, come and find out more about AI for AML, screening, and fraud prevention.

 

> Europe  

  • April 16: KPMG RegTech Day, Frankfurt am Main

  • April 22-23: AMLP AML/CTF & Financial Crime, London 

  • April 23: FinCrime Leaders Summit Europe, Amsterdam

> North America

  • April 20-22: ACAMS Hollywood, Florida 

> Asia

  • April 21-23: Money20/20 Asia 2026, Bangkok

Hawk’s Solutions-v3

Find out what our AML and fraud prevention technology, powered by explainable AI, can do for you:

> Transaction Monitoring

> Transaction Fraud Prevention

> Payment Screening

> Customer Screening

> Customer Risk Rating

> Agentic AI 

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