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Hawk has today announced its $56m Series C round of funding as it continues to bring the transformative impact of machine learning and GenAI to financial institutions in their AML and fraud operations.

Real-time AML has been talked about for many years. This article explores its risks, pitfalls, and the key drivers that are making real-time AML much more important today than ever before.

Hawk is proud to announce that we have been recognized in the Chartis 2025 Financial Crime and Compliance50 for delivering the leading real-time transaction monitoring solution in the industry.

Hawk welcomes Ben Pannier as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Ben brings extensive experience in scaling transactional platforms in highly regulated environments and will lead Hawk’s technology strategy as our rapid growth continues. 

Build AI augmentations in-house or partner with specialized vendors like Hawk? That's the question that banks with data science teams need to answer as they look to enhance AML with AI.

AML thresholds are a cornerstone of risk-based approaches but come with several challenges. They are often a significant source of false positive alerts due to their generic nature. However, raising all thresholds to reduce false positives and missing genuine financial crime risk is not an acceptable trade-off either. We explore how AI can help.

Hawk has announced the launch of its groundbreaking Anti-Money Laundering AI Overlay solution, enabling banks to significantly reduce false positives and detect novel crime without replacing their existing anti-money laundering platforms.

Find out how cryptocurrency firms can combine blockchain analytics tools with AML transaction monitoring solutions to detect money-laundering.
 

“Hawk has helped us up-level our AML program. We’ve already seen transformative process efficiencies that improve our operations," read more from payment platform ONE on how Hawk is supporting their growth. 

Hawk’s platform was chosen to support a range of critical functions for Vodafone Fiji, including transaction monitoring, payment screening, customer due diligence, risk profiling and advanced fraud prevention.

Michael Shearer, Hawk's Chief Solution Officer, shares some of his learnings on how to implement AI within AML and fraud prevention operations – and also what should be avoided.

We asked Michael Shearer, Chief Solution Officer at Hawk, to tell us about why he’d written a book on entity resolution and its importance to anti-financial crime (AFC) programs.