金融犯罪防控成本高昂但效果有限,传统方法难以应对。AI技术,特别是自主型AI(agentic AI),为解决这一难题提供了新思路。本文分析了金融犯罪防控的痛点,并介绍了分析型AI、生成型AI和自主型AI在其中的应用。
金融犯罪防控面临三大挑战:成本高(高达银行全职员工的20%)、自动化率低、数据碎片化。现有防控措施效率低下,客户体验差。AI技术可提升效率,但分析型和生成型AI主要辅助人类工作,未带来根本性变革。
自主型AI通过AI代理(或数字工厂)实现端到端任务自动化,大幅提升效率(200%-2000%),并提高输出质量。其核心在于让AI代理协同工作,人类仅负责异常处理、监督和指导。例如,某全球银行建立了自主型AI工厂,涵盖端到端KYC流程,通过十组AI代理分工协作,实现高效自动化。
实施自主型AI需遵循六项原则:重构业务流程、提升端到端自动化率、赋予AI代理明确角色、建立质量监督机制、优化运营模式、部署QA系统。成功实施需六项支撑:技术投入、人才配置、流程清晰、数据优化、风险管理、变革管理。
研究结论:自主型AI可显著提升金融犯罪防控效果,但需银行在技术、人才、流程和数据等方面做好准备。领先银行通过试点项目验证效果后,逐步扩大应用范围,实现规模化部署。
Risk & Resilience PracticeHow agentic AI can
change the way banksfight financial crime
Financial institutions are allocating significant resources to fightingfinancial crime, but they are generally making little progress. AI-basedsolutions may be an accelerator.
This article is a collaborative effort by Alexander Verhagen, Angela Luget, Olivia Conjeaud, andVasiliki Stergiou, with Debanjan Banerjee, representing views from QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey,and McKinsey’s Financial Services and Risk & Resilience Practices.
Banks are spendingever-larger sums of moneyon know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering(KYC/AML) activities. But there is little evidencethey are getting a good return on their investments.In fact, according to Interpol, the financial industrydetects only about 2 percent of global financialcrime flows, despite increasing spending by upto 10 percent a year in some advanced marketsbetween 2015 and 2022.1A potential solutionlies in agentic AI2—an evolution of analytical AItechnology that offers automation and productivitythroughout the client life cycle (Exhibit 1).
up to 10 to 15 percent of their full-time equivalentsto KYC/AML alone.3In parallel, automation ratesare generally low amid fragmented data resourcesand unstandardized data sets. The result is thatteams waste a lot of time on manual tasks whileclients complain of tiresome interactions and lumpyprocesses.
AI, specifically agentic AI, could be the antidote toKYC/AML headwinds. In this article, we map the AIlandscape and examine options for implementation,highlighting how some leading institutions havedeployed the technology to their advantage. Our keyconclusion is that AI offers transformative potential,but only if institutions put in place the foundationsand capabilities that will support an at-scale rollout.
Much of the cost of combating financial crimerelates to inefficiencies in operating models andways of working. Indeed, banks commonly assign
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Financial crime is a high-potential area for AI.
Operational cost and gen AI potential, by banking risk sector
Financial crime (FC) challenges
Large cost base:Up to ~20% of banks’ full-timeemployees are typically dedicated to FC activities
Low automation rates:Case-handling processeslack automation and optimization, resulting in manymanual reviews performed across segments
Data fragmentation:Analyses depend on a mix ofinternal and external data, both structured andunstructured, making it difficult to deployautomated data extraction and analysis tools
Multitude of reports created:FC officers spendmost of their time creating detailed, case-specificreports such as know-your-client memos andnegative news reports
Suboptimal client journeys:Existing clientprocesses, such as onboarding, are inefficient andfail to meet growing expectations for speed andconvenience
Analytical AI, generative AI, andagentic AI: A short tutorial onfinancial crime use cases
anomaly detection. And it can apply decision-tree-based models, a type of machine learning algorithm,to improve underperforming rules.
AI is not, in reality, a single technology but ratheran umbrella term for a range of technologies thatcan understand and generate language, recognizeimages or speech, make decisions or predictions,and learn from data over time. In the KYC/AMLcontext, these capabilities are broadly expressed inthree forms (Exhibit 2).
Generative AI
Generative AI (gen AI) learns from patterns indata sets and uses those learnings to generateoriginal output. In KYC/AML, it can support humaninvestigators across a number of use cases,including onboarding and in-life client reviews,based on analysis of structured and unstructureddata. The technology can save human time incollecting and extracting data from documents,summarizing large sets of information (for example,on adverse media) about individuals and entities,and accelerating investigations, including analyzingpurpose and nature statements, source of fundsor wealth drafts, and corporate business activitydescriptions. In transaction monitoring, genAI is useful in producing alert conclusions andtransaction analysis insights, supporting draftingof suspicious activity reports, and contributing toquality control and quality assurance (QA).
Analytical AI
Analytical AI can complete analytical tasks fasterand more efficiently than humans can. Prominentuse cases include false positive detection incontrols, including transaction monitoring,sanctions detection, name screening, and frauddetection. The technology can also produce moredynamic and integrated customer risk ratingmodels, for example, by incorporating a highernumber of behavioral (including transaction-based)factors. In transaction monitoring, it can sharpenaccuracy and facilitate peer group comparisons and
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Three successive generations of AI development show a clear evolution intask handling.
Three examples of agentic AI use in investig