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Nasdaq Verafin has launched the Agentic AI Workforce, a new suite of digital workers aimed at transforming anti-money laundering (AML) compliance processes across the banking sector. The solution automates labor-intensive tasks, allowing financial institutions to shift human resources toward high-value investigative work.
The company said its Agentic AI Workforce builds on the success of its GenAI Entity Research Copilot, which is already in use across thousands of cases. With this new rollout, Nasdaq Verafin is introducing autonomous digital workers capable of executing and documenting end-to-end compliance tasks, including decisioning, with limited human oversight.
“Our Agentic AI Workforce will transform the way banks of all sizes approach AML compliance”
Rob Norris, SVP and Head of Product at Nasdaq Verafin, commented, “In today’s operating environment, banks are tasked with navigating a growing number of compliance challenges from evolving regulatory requirements to the shortcomings of legacy technology and impact of resource constraints on compliance teams. Our Agentic AI Workforce will transform the way banks of all sizes approach AML compliance, delivering a step change in efficiency gains that allows compliance teams to shift efforts and focus on the important work of tackling serious financial crimes such as human trafficking, drug trafficking, and other facets of organized crime.”
Initial capabilities focus on two of the most demanding areas in AML compliance: Sanctions Screening and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) reviews. Both products are currently in beta, with broader availability expected later in the year.
The Digital Sanctions Analyst will address inefficiencies in sanctions compliance by dispositioning, documenting, and taking action on false positives, while routing true matches to human investigators. According to Nasdaq Verafin, this tool has already demonstrated an 80% reduction in alert review workload for pilot clients.
For EDD reviews, the Digital EDD Analyst will automate routine reviews of low-risk clients, allowing banks to satisfy regulatory requirements more efficiently. The firm noted that most EDD processes today still rely on manual assessments, which are time-consuming and resource-heavy.
Nasdaq Verafin’s 2025 Global Financial Crime Report revealed that 75% of surveyed financial institutions had increased compliance staffing in the past year, yet nearly half still reported insufficient resources and tools. By enabling digital workers to handle repetitive tasks, banks can redirect human capital to more complex and outcome-oriented roles.
Chuck Subrt, Fraud & AML Practice Director at Datos Insights, commented, “The financial services industry is grappling with mounting pressure to enhance operational efficiency while maintaining robust compliance operations amid increasingly sophisticated threats. We are witnessing a transformative shift as institutions seek to automate resource-intensive workflows that traditionally consume the vast majority of analysts’ time on data collection and processing. Digital workforce solutions like Nasdaq Verafin’s Agentic AI Workforce flip the investigator time equation to enable human experts to focus on high-value decision-making and critical analysis.”
The launch follows the second-quarter rollout of Nasdaq Verafin’s GenAI Entity Research Copilot, integrated into its case management module. The tool has been used in tens of thousands of investigations and is now in use by over 1,300 institutions.
Nasdaq Verafin currently serves more than 2,600 financial institutions with a combined asset base of over $10 trillion. Its platform spans fraud detection, sanctions compliance, high-risk customer monitoring, and AML/CFT program management.
