Nasdaq Verafin expands Agentic AI workforce for AML and fraud detection

By Puja Sharma

New Agentic Workers, Product Enhancements Designed to Improve Detection and Cut Investigation Times Across AML and Fraud Workflows

Nasdaq Verafin announced the next phase of its Agentic AI Workforce, introducing new role-based agentic workers, beginning with the Agentic AML Analyst and the Agentic Fraud Analyst.

In addition, the company announced several planned enhancements to its existing Agentic AI Workforce, including alert auto-dispositioning capabilities, consortium insights, and a flexible deployment model that can extend the workforce to overlay across third-party systems.

These additions will transform how financial institutions fight financial crime, enabling faster alert triage, reduced false positive volume, and broader access to consortium-powered detection across anti-money laundering (AML) and fraud functions.

Nasdaq Verafin’s Agentic AI Workforce is designed to mirror the core functions of a typical anti-financial crime program at a bank or credit union, automating manual, repetitive workflows. Beginning in the second half of 2026, Nasdaq Verafin will begin rolling out additional agentic workers, starting with the Agentic Fraud Analyst and the Agentic AML Analyst.

The Agentic AML Analyst will automate the triage of AML alerts, operating in a similar manner to how experienced human investigators manage cases. At launch, the Agentic AML Analyst will focus on cash structuring alerts, helping identify when bad actors intentionally break up large sums of money into smaller deposits to avoid triggering institutional thresholds and evade regulatory reporting. Over time, Nasdaq Verafin plans to introduce new skillsets to the Agentic AML Analyst, managing additional AML typologies such as flow of funds and unusual international activity.

The Agentic Fraud Analyst is Nasdaq Verafin’s first fraud-specific agentic worker and will launch with the ability to triage alerts for unusual ACH activity within a financial institution. Over time, the Agentic Fraud Analyst will be given new skillsets required to work fraud alert types across additional payment channels and online account takeover activity.

“In a world where criminals leverage AI to move at unprecedented speed and scale, it’s critical that financial institutions are not bogged down by the complexity of resource-intensive manual workflows. Our vision for Nasdaq Verafin’s Agentic AI Workforce is to build agentic workers that can automate or augment each anti-financial crime workflow, giving banks and credit unions a fundamentally different way to operate,” said Stephanie Champion, Executive Vice President and Head of Nasdaq Verafin. “With more than 650 financial institutions already leveraging our agentic AI solutions, Nasdaq Verafin has proven that the industry is ready to take advantage of the transformational power of AI. Today we’re taking a significant step toward the future, where an AI workforce can be embedded across the entire anti-financial crime function.”

“Our goal has always been to build an Agentic AI Workforce that mirrors the structure of a real financial crime team, one that is role-based, typology-aware and capable of executing entire workflows from end to end,” said Rob Norris, Senior Vice President and Head of Product Strategy at Nasdaq Verafin.