WorkFusion AI Agents for Financial Crime Compliance

WorkFusion builds AI agents for financial crime compliance in banks and other financial institutions. Its agents act as digital Level 1 AML analysts, reviewing and resolving alerts rather than only flagging them, and document each decision so that it can be examined by regulators. The company says its solutions run at 10 of the top 20 banks worldwide.

The product is a set of named, task-specific agents: Evelyn for name screening alerts, Evan for adverse media monitoring, Tara for transaction screening, Edward for enhanced due diligence and high-risk reviews, Isaac for AML transaction monitoring and fraud alerts, and Kayla for KYC. They work alongside existing screening and monitoring systems, hand edge cases to human analysts for final decisions, and typically go live within four to six weeks. Customers include Scotiabank, Deutsche Bank, Standard Bank and Bank of Asia.

• Name screening agent: reviews sanctions and PEP name-match alerts.
• Adverse media agent: monitors and assesses negative news about customers.
• Transaction screening agent: clears payment screening alerts against sanctions lists.
• EDD agent: prepares enhanced due diligence and high-risk customer reviews.
• Transaction monitoring agent: investigates AML and fraud alerts.
• KYC agent: supports customer identification and due diligence across the customer lifecycle.

A Vietnamese commercial bank can use the screening agents to clear false-positive sanctions hits on international payments. A finance company or e-wallet can automate KYC refresh and adverse media checks. A bank's compliance unit can use the EDD agent to prepare high-risk customer reviews faster.

Straight-through processing of up to 95% of alerts with GenAI enhancements, according to the company. Scotiabank reports a 95% reduction in false positives and Carter Bank & Trust saves $3M a year. Compliance teams can scale capacity 3 to 5 times without hiring proportionally. Every decision is documented for audit, with humans keeping final adjudication.

Alert volumes from sanctions screening and transaction monitoring keep rising while most hits are false positives, so banks are moving from rule-based RPA to AI agents that resolve routine alerts with explainable decisions. Stricter AML expectations in Southeast Asia make this relevant to regional banks and payment firms.

Acquired by UiPath in February 2026; the WorkFusion brand continues as 'A UiPath company'. Raised $45M in September 2025 led by Georgian, with Chubb, Nokia Growth Partners and Teralys among investors. SOC 2 certified; recognized by Celent and FinTech Breakthrough (2026).