Sutherland and ComplyAdvantage have united to develop an AI-driven financial crime management solution designed to help banks and fintechs respond to the rapid rise of AI-designed fraud, complex AML risks, fast-evolving financial crime threats, and complex compliance requirements.
Today, financial crime requires sophisticated, AI-intelligence-based solutions, as traditional risk and compliance controls cannot keep up. The Sutherland-ComplyAdvantage solution transforms financial crime management by delivering a single AI-native intelligence layer that continuously enhances screening, transaction monitoring, fraud prevention, case investigations, and regulatory reporting. This solution delivers consistent compliance, which is scalable and balances compliance and customer experience.
“Financial crime today behaves like an intelligent, adaptive network,” said Banwari Agarwal, CEO of banking and financial services at Sutherland. “This partnership brings together AI, advanced analytics, and real-time intelligence to strengthen screening, monitoring, investigations, and operations. Our customers can now detect risk earlier, act faster, and operate with far greater accuracy and compliance.”
“The true hurdle in financial crime isn’t piling on more tools—it’s architecting systems that scale seamlessly and intelligently,” said Doug Gilbert, CIO and chief digital officer at Sutherland. “Through this partnership, we’re delivering a unified AI intelligence layer that spans data, models, and operations, empowering banks and fintechs to evolve their compliance programs with precision, speed, and zero added friction.”
The solution combines Sutherland’s 2,400-plus financial crime experts, AI-native digital accelerators, including Agentic AI, Sentinel AI, ID Scan, and HelpTree GenAI, and ComplyAdvantage’s Mesh, an AI-native platform that unifies customer and company screening, customer risk scoring, transaction monitoring, and real-time payments analysis in one intelligent system. Built on large language and predictive machine learning models, Mesh leverages agentic AI to learn, act, and adapt across the full compliance lifecycle.
The joint solution creates a unified intelligence layer. This allows financial institutions to:
Detect converging threats: Identify complex patterns that span both fraud and money laundering.
Respond in real-time: Move from reactive case management to immediate threat mitigation.
Unify the lifecycle: Monitor and respond to risk throughout the customer lifecycle, from onboarding to daily transactions, without data handoffs.
“The convergence of fraud, AML, and risk is the critical path forward for modern financial institutions,” said Vatsa Narasimha, CEO at ComplyAdvantage. “By bringing together our real-time risk intelligence and Sutherland’s digital transformation capabilities, we are empowering leaders to build FinCrime programs that are not just compliant, but actively resilient against the speed of new threats.”
Early enterprise deployments of the integrated solution have demonstrated tangible operational improvements, including:
- 25% reduction in fraud losses;
- 70% drop in false positives;
- 90% improvement in compliance accuracy;
- 50% faster investigations and alert remediation; and
- 99% payments screened in <0.5 seconds.
