Anti-Money Laundering Airtight compliance, without the noise

Mitigate risks more effectively—even in your blind spots. With explainable AI at its core, Hawk's AML solution increases coverage, identifying threats your current technology misses, while also reducing false positives. It boosts investigation speed and quality with clear, auditable rationale for every alert.

Comprehensive AML Platform Meet AML obligations today and in the future

Money launderers move with speed, scale, and sophistication, but most AML solutions can’t keep up. This leaves institutions exposed to true threats and regulatory risk as false positives slip through, putting pressure on costs and morale.

AI is delivering results, enabling FIs to strengthen their defenses to a standard that is quickly becoming the norm. Hawk's AI-native anti-money laundering (AML) technology is proven to pinpoint laundering other platforms miss while keeping false positives at bay.

With customer due diligence, watchlist screening, and transaction monitoring all in one place, you gain a unified view of risk that drives faster, more accurate decisions—without compromising compliance.

The Hawk Difference Discover how Hawk raises the bar for efficient anti-money laundering compliance

The Traditional Way

• Detection logic that misses nuanced risks and floods your teams with false positives
• Heavy reliance on vendor services to build and adjust rules, slowing response times and limiting control
• AI retrofitted to legacy systems, limiting functionality and impact
• Batch-based detection that flags money laundering months after it happened
• Offline testing environment that leads to stale models
• Difficult to understand AI and outdated interfaces that bring confusion and slow investigations
• Disjointed AML and KYC systems that fragment data and obscure the full customer risk picture
• Limited deployment flexibility creating a less than ideal set up

The Hawk Way

• Explainable, precision-built AI detection models that surface more suspicious activity with fewer false positives
• Agile, self-serve rule configuration and sandbox testing so you can adapt detection in minutes, not months
• AI-native solution ensuring higher performance
• Real-time detection with the optionality to stop suspicious activity as it occurs
• Production simulation with live data for precision model development
• Human-understandable model explanations that reduce investigation time and strengthen regulatory defensibility
• Unified KYC, screening, and transaction monitoring in one platform, delivering a complete, contextual view of risk
• Flexibility to deploy your way with SaaS, VPC, and on-prem options

AML Product Suite AI-powered compliance software that shields your institution from risk with precision

Customer Risk Rating

Maintain due diligence throughout the customer lifecycle using dynamic and static data to maximize risk coverage.

Customer Screening

Screen against global sanctions lists, watchlists, politically exposed persons (PEP) lists, and adverse media databases.

Payment Screening

Screen payments to identify and prevent suspicious transactions, using powerful matching technology.

Transaction Monitoring

Increase risk coverage and reduce false positives, with the option of explainable AI to significantly increase performance.

AML AI Overlay

Gain the efficiency and effectiveness of tailored AML detection without replacing existing systems and lengthy development cycles.

Analytics Studio

Streamline the entire AI lifecycle with self-service, regulator-ready model development that eliminates technical bottlenecks and documentation burdens.

Alert & Case Management

Get a holistic view of your alerts and maximize efficiency with a unified case manager.

SAR / CTR Filing

Accelerate your SAR process from detection to submission, without compromising on narrative quality.

Entity Risk Detection

Gain a clearer understanding of customers and networks to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of your risk detection and investigations.

Use Cases

Stop known and emerging money laundering threats with AI precision

• Known Threats
• Illicit Activity
• Complex Money Movement
• Mules Networks
• Anomalous Behavior

Known money laundering threats

Surface classic money laundering patterns—like structuring and rapid movement of funds:

• Flexible rule templates can be configured to capture typologies relevant to your business
• Integration with Scorechain allows monitoring of on-chain crypto transactions
• False positive reduction models cut unnecessary noise, allowing a rules safety net without the downside

Illicit Activity

Spot criminal activity including tax evasion, sanctions evasion, and trade of restricted goods:

• Day one defense AI models identify typical criminal activity
• Customer and payment screening protect your institution from shady activity, looking for risky key words that could expose you to more than just sanctions risk.

Complex Money Movement

Don’t let network activity prevent you from following the money trail:

• Entity risk detection identifies relationships between entities to give you a bigger picture of what is going on
• Network detection and visualization pinpoints complex money movement patterns.

Mules Networks

Pinpoint mules, witting and unwitting, moving dirty money through your accounts:

• Behavioral analytics flag accounts with high volumes of incoming funds from disparate sources
• AI analytics identify skimming or commissions on mule activities.

Anomalous Behavior

Catch suspicious behaviors and risks you don’t know you have:

• Semi-supervised anomaly detection contextualizes transactional activity to pinpoint abnormal behavior
• Model explanations accelerate investigations, clearly telling investigators why ‘suspicious’ activity is actually suspicious.

Quotes

Learn why forward-thinking Risk & AML leaders choose Hawk

• Hawk's highly customizable SaaS solution and modern case management interface empowered us to adopt a more efficient approach to combating financial crime. Horst Gottsnahm, Chief Risk Officer, VakıfBank

• Hawk provides reasoning behind each flagged alert, which does most of the heavy lifting for our compliance team. Instead of being reactive, we are now proactive. Deepak Baran, Head of Financial Technology, Vodafone Fiji

• Hawk's innovation is ahead of the competition. The Forrester Wave™: Anti-Money Laundering Solutions, Q2 2025

• The Hawk team demonstrated technology leadership and willingness to work closely with us to hit ambitious goals. Mirko Krauel, CEO, OTTO Payments

• If you’re looking for a partner who truly understands the regulatory space, listens to what you need, moves fast, and actually delivers – go with Hawk. The tech is strong, the people are great, and honestly, it just works. Denny Axt, Director of Compliance & AML, Ratepay

• Hawk doesn’t just offer AI — it delivers it in production. Rather than simply providing algorithms, the company fully operationalizes AI to deploy it efficiently and at scale. Chuck Subrt, Datos Insights

Agentic AI: A Practical Guide for Anti-Financial Crime and Compliance Leaders

How is agentic AI changing the way that financial crime and compliance teams work? Our latest whitepaper provides you with 50 pages of insight on the best use cases for agentic AI, covering:

• Improving investigations
• Enhancing system accuracy
• Optimizing workflows

Awards & Recognition Leading the industry forward

Hawk Recognized as a Strong Performer in Anti-Money Laundering Solutions Report

Hawk Recognized by Chartis for Real-Time Transaction Monitoring

Hawk Recognized for AML Transaction Monitoring Innovation by Datos Insights

Agentic AI

Introducing: The AML Investigative Agent

Instantly scale your AML operations with Agentic AI and boost the efficiency of your investigations.

Industries

Aligned to your risk appetite, built for your industry

Focus on what matters with AML detection calibrated to your risk profile and industry context.

Banking

AI-powered compliance for the modern banking sector

Modernize your compliance program with AI-driven detection that increases precision while maintaining compliance with regulations, such as the US BSA-AML regulations, the EU Money Laundering Directives, and the UK Proceeds of Crime Act.

Payments

A rail-agnostic AML solution that scales with your business

Move fast and stay compliant, scaling your AML program with payment volumes and product growth.

FinTech

The AML toolbox for fast-growing FinTechs

Tackle your compliance needs with an all-in-one AML solution that’s regulator trusted and scales with growth—from start up to global operations.

Crypto

Blockchain monitoring for crypto platforms

Stay compliant and secure with an all-in-one solution built for the regulatory scrutiny of digital assets—monitoring on-chain activities of platform from early-stage exchange to global protocol.

Marketplaces

Comprehensive compliance for modern marketplaces

Don’t let your company become a vehicle for money laundering. Protect your users and business, monitoring trades and seller payouts for sanctioned, illicit, and suspicious activity.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is an AML compliance software?

AML (Anti-Money Laundering) compliance software is a specialized technology solution used by financial institutions, fintechs, and regulated entities to automate the detection, prevention, and reporting of money laundering activities.

How Does an AI-Powered AML Platform Reduce False Positives?

Traditional AML systems rely on "if-then" rules that act like blunt instruments—for example, flagging every transaction over $10,000. This leads to a "false positive" rate as high as 95%, burying analysts in harmless alerts. An AI-powered platform reduces this noise (often by 70% or more) through several advanced layers.