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KYC/AML Agent

Verifies customers, screens sanctions and PEPs, monitors transactions, and drafts SARs — running air-gapped so client and transaction data stay on your servers.

The KYC/AML Agent is an autonomous AI agent that runs customer due diligence, screens against sanctions and PEP lists, monitors transactions for suspicious activity, and prepares regulatory filings.

It reasons across customer data, watchlists, and transaction patterns, clears low-risk cases, and escalates genuine alerts to analysts, instead of teams clearing false positives by hand.

This is not a screening lookup chatbot. It is an active agent that verifies, screens, monitors, and files, deployed air-gapped or on-premise so client and transaction data never leave your servers.

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AI Agent vs. Chatbot

A compliance chatbot answers a question about a regulation. The KYC/AML Agent verifies identities, screens watchlists, monitors transactions, triages alerts, and drafts SARs — autonomously, on a continuous cycle.

Dimension
Chatbot
AI Agent
Execution
Explains what a SAR is
Investigates the alert, assembles the case, and drafts the SAR for filing
Initiative
Responds only when asked
Continuously screens new customers and monitors transactions on its own
Memory
No recall of cases or risk history
Maintains customer risk profiles, alert history, and investigation outcomes over time
Tools & APIs
Cannot reach core banking or watchlists
Queries core systems, sanctions lists, and case management; writes dispositions back
Data Control
Client data leaves to a vendor cloud
Runs air-gapped or on-premise; client and transaction data never leave your servers
Model Flexibility
Locked to one vendor's model
Model-agnostic — Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, or a fine-tuned model
Compliance
No audit trail of decisions
Logs every screening, decision, and filing to an immutable trail for examiners
Autonomy
An analyst drives every check
Runs a continuous verify-screen-monitor-investigate-file cycle without prompting

The KYC/AML Agent is a true AI agent that goes beyond simple Q&A. It reasons, plans, and executes multi-step workflows autonomously while you retain full code ownership and infrastructure control.

Capabilities

Customer Due Diligence & Verification

Performs identity verification and risk-rates customers for onboarding (CDD) and enhanced due diligence (EDD).

Verifies a new customer, assigns a risk rating, and clears or escalates onboarding without an analyst opening each file.

Sanctions & PEP Screening

Screens customers and counterparties against OFAC, global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists.

Resolves likely false matches using context and escalates true potential hits with the supporting rationale.

Transaction Monitoring

Monitors transactions for structuring, unusual patterns, and typology-based red flags.

Triages monitoring alerts, suppressing well-explained activity and escalating genuinely suspicious patterns to investigators.

Alert Investigation & Case Assembly

Gathers the customer, transaction, and screening context needed to investigate an alert.

Assembles a complete case file with the evidence and timeline so analysts decide instead of dig.

SAR/STR Drafting

Drafts suspicious activity reports with the narrative, facts, and supporting evidence.

Produces a ready-to-review SAR within the regulatory window when a case meets filing criteria.

How It Works

Step 1

Receive — Ingest Customer & Transaction Data

The agent ingests onboarding data, transactions, and watchlist updates from core systems and screening sources.

Step 2

Reason — Risk-Rate and Screen

It risk-rates customers, screens against sanctions and PEP lists, and evaluates transactions against AML typologies.

Step 3

Act — Triage and Investigate

The agent clears low-risk cases, assembles case files for genuine alerts, and drafts SARs where filing criteria are met.

Step 4

Evaluate — Reduce False Positives

It learns from analyst dispositions to tune screening and monitoring, cutting false positives without missing true risk.

Step 5

Report — Maintain the Audit Trail

The agent logs every screening, decision, and filing to an immutable trail and reports SAR volume, clearance times, and risk trends.

Use Cases

A bank's AML team drowns in false-positive alerts. The KYC/AML Agent triages alerts and assembles cases, escalating only genuine risk.

Banking

Cut false-positive workload sharply and shortened alert clearance times, with data staying on the bank's servers.

A smaller institution lacks a large compliance team but faces the same BSA obligations. The agent scales monitoring without added headcount.

Credit Unions & Community Banks

Met BSA/AML obligations affordably on an owned, flat-fee platform.

A fast-growing fintech must onboard customers quickly while screening for risk. The agent verifies and risk-rates at onboarding speed.

Fintech & Payments

Faster onboarding with rigorous screening and a clean audit trail for partners and regulators.

A wealth manager must apply enhanced due diligence to higher-risk clients. The agent performs EDD and ongoing monitoring.

Wealth & Asset Management

Consistent EDD and continuous monitoring without manual periodic reviews falling behind.

A digital-asset platform faces complex transaction typologies and evolving rules. The agent monitors on-chain and fiat flows for red flags.

Crypto & Digital Assets

Detected structuring and high-risk patterns while keeping sensitive data in the platform's environment.

Integrations

Fiserv

Reads customer and transaction data from Fiserv core banking and writes risk ratings and dispositions back.

FIS

Integrates with FIS systems to monitor transactions and update case status.

Salesforce Financial Services Cloud

Syncs customer risk profiles and onboarding status with the relationship record.

Sanctions & Watchlist Sources (OFAC, PEP)

Screens against OFAC, global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists, refreshing as lists change.

Case Management Systems

Creates and updates investigation cases and files SAR drafts into the compliance workflow.

Bloomberg / Refinitiv

Enriches counterparty and entity data for screening and due diligence.

Deployment & Ownership

Full Source Code Ownership

You receive the complete codebase. Your compliance infrastructure is yours to audit, modify, and operate permanently.

Air-Gapped & On-Premise Deployment

Deploy entirely within your own infrastructure so client and transaction data never leave your servers.

Any Cloud, Any Infrastructure

Run on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or your own data centers. ibl.ai is a certified partner of all three hyperscalers.

Model-Agnostic Architecture

Choose and swap the underlying model without rebuilding your screening and monitoring workflows.

Zero Telemetry, Complete Audit Trail

No customer data is sent to ibl.ai. Every screening, decision, and filing is logged to your own immutable audit trail for examiners.

ROI & Impact

50%+
False-Positive Reduction

Context-aware triage reduces false-positive alert volume by more than half.

-60%
Alert Clearance Time

Automated case assembly cuts the time analysts spend gathering evidence per alert.

faster
Onboarding Speed

Automated CDD verification accelerates customer onboarding without weakening screening.

complete
Examiner-Ready Audit Trail

Every decision and filing is logged, reducing exam preparation effort and finding risk.

~10x cheaper
Licensing Cost vs. Per-Seat Tools

Enterprise-wide flat-fee licensing eliminates per-seat AML SaaS pricing.

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