Hawk Recognized for AML Transaction Monitoring Innovation by Datos Insights

Hawk, the leading provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering (AML), fraud prevention, and screening solutions, has been recognized as a Silver Medalist in the 2025 Datos Insights Impact Awards in Fraud & AML in the category of Best AML Transaction Monitoring Innovation.  

The Datos Insights Impact Awards in Fraud & AML honor solution providers whose innovations advance the effectiveness of risk-based AML transaction monitoring, helping financial institutions strengthen compliance, enhance detection, and combat financial crime more effectively. 

Hawk has been recognized for its AML AI Overlay, a solution that solves a significant challenge for global banks: how to rapidly realize the substantive benefits of AI within an AML operation without needing to replace an existing system. Results can include cutting false positives by up to 97% while doubling detection of true positives.  

Chuck Subrt, Practice Director, Fraud & AML at Datos Insights, said: “Hawk doesn’t just offer AI — it delivers it in production. Rather than simply providing algorithms, the company fully operationalizes AI through automated model pipelines, built-in governance, and seamless integration, enabling institutions to deploy it efficiently and at scale.” 

The award further underlines Hawk’s impact in the financial sector globally. As financial institutions look to AI to increase risk coverage while also delivering cost efficiencies, Hawk’s AI-native platform provides unmatched accuracy in both AML and fraud prevention, consistently achieving high detection rates in real-world deployments.  

Wolfgang Berner, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Hawk, said: “While the value of AI in transaction monitoring is clear, building from scratch to meet your individual institution’s needs can be very costly and lengthy. Institutions often underestimate the task of building the infrastructure to train and deploy models fast, while ramping up the necessary experience and getting feature impact, explainability and performance right.”  

“Our AML AI Overlay is already delivering significant impact for global banks, increasing precision and enabling teams to focus on higher-risk investigations,” Berner continued. “This recognition from Datos Insights reflects the practical impact this solution is having on AML teams that want impressive accuracy and efficiency from explainable AI as quickly as possible.”  

Judged by industry practitioners, this year’s awards were highly competitive, with over 120 firms competing for 11 award categories.  

For a full list of winners, see here. For more information on Hawk’s AML capabilities, visit: https://hawk.ai/our-products/aml-ai-overlay