Payment Screening Agent Keep payments flowing with Agentic AI alert reviews
Hawk's Payment Screening Agent can resolve clear-cut false positives moments after a hit, then speeds up remaining reviews by handing analysts a fully triaged, evidence-backed case.
THE PROBLEM Fuzzy matching buries risk in the noise
The fuzziest of matches clog up your alert queue, so legitimate payments sit on hold.
of payments trigger a sanctions alert that needs a human to clear it
of those alerts are false positives, leaving legitimate payments stuck on hold
sunk per day, per junior analyst, on clearing false hits instead of real risk
A New Standard Agentic AI can automate your hit review process
Review sanctions hits faster, keep legitimate payments flowing.
The Traditional Way
- Analysts manually check sender and receiver details against sanctions lists for every hit
- Legitimate payments wait in a queue for an analyst to reach them, even when the hit is a clear-cut false positive
- Analysts weigh incomplete evidence against policy, under time pressure
- A blocked payment means a customer or counterparty waiting, sometimes for days, with no visibility into why
- A cleared payment is only as defensible as an analyst's notes, thin protection if it's questioned in a later exam
- Growing payment backlogs drive analyst fatigue, a leading contributor to high turnover
The Agentic Way
- Evidence aggregated automatically, before an analyst opens the case
- Alerts arrive pre-triaged with evidence packs that accelerate analyst review, and clear-cut false positives can be released via straight-through processing, if desired
- Policy applied consistently, every time, and agent escalates when it isn't certain
- Legitimate payments clear faster, so customers and correspondent banks aren't left waiting on payments that were never actually a risk
- Full audit trail, citation-backed and confidence-scored, for every decision, ready to defend to a regulator or examiner years later
- Higher analyst retention, thanks to less fatigue from shorter alert queues
Product Differentiators AI agents built for trust, not just efficiency
Fit agents to the policies, procedures, and escalation rules your institution already has, so it enforces your risk appetite, not ours.
Avoid an incorrect decision going unnoticed. Hawk's agent recognizes when the evidence doesn't support a confident call and flags it for human review.
Defend every decision to a regulator with ease. Each recommendation comes with its reasoning, a confidence score, and source citations, logged with a full audit trail.
THE IMPACT Proven Results From a Live Deployment
Measured at one institution across its payment screening alerts.
of confirmed matches caught and actual false positive hits cleared
of previous decisions escalated for reevaluation based on agent findings
from deployment to measured results
MEET HAWK'S PAYMENT SCREENING AGENT Keep pace with growing payment volumes without growing headcount
Hawk makes the agentic future a reality, transforming your typical sanctions hit review process from a mountainous alert backlog to a manageable alert queue. Hawk's Payment Screening Agent empowers you with:
- Configurable workflows that mirror your policies, procedures, and escalation rules, with human-in-the-loop checkpoints wherever you choose
- Instant evidence aggregation and summarization, before a case is even opened
- Deep domain expertise that reads the financial context behind every counterparty correctly
- Escalation instead of guesswork; when the evidence isn’t conclusive, the agent flags it for human review
- Full explainability for every decision, logged with a complete audit trail
- A copilot chatbot to interrogate the agent's reasoning and QA its reviews directly
Automate every step of a sanctions hit review
See how the agent's skill set takes a hit from flagged to resolved.
Aggregate Evidence
Compiles and summarizes the available data automatically in the moments after a hit is flagged, before an analyst ever opens the case.
Assess Against Policy
Weighs the evidence against your policy the same way, every time — no inconsistency, no time-pressure shortcuts.
Release or Escalate
As defined by your policies, the agent clears clear-cut false positives via straight-through processing or passes evidence back to an analyst. The agent escalates to a human whenever the evidence isn't conclusive.
Explain and Document
Every recommendation or decision comes with its reasoning, a confidence score, and source citations — logged with a full audit trail for instant verification.
Tailored Workflows Mirror your exact screening policies
The Payment Screening Agent isn't a one-size-fits-all model. It's a flexible layer that runs on the policies, procedures, and escalation rules your institution already has.
- Works with your existing financial crime systems and SOPs; no need to rebuild your workflow
- Connects to your data via API or MCP, with self-serve configuration
Is Model-agnostic: uses the LLMs you've already approved
- Allows you to adjust thresholds and escalation rules at any time
- Protects your data. Never moves data outside your VPC/tenant, pools your data with other institutions, trains foundation models on your data, or closes, escalates, or reports a hit without you
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
Hawk’s Solution One layer in a complete false positive reduction tech stack
The agent works standalone, as an overlay on your existing screening system. Connect it to the Hawk platform, and it becomes one layer in a complete false positive reduction stack — where the benefits compound.
- Fine-Grain Fuzzy Matching: Screen any payment field with custom weighting, rule by rule, and adjust matching logic or lists yourself, no IT ticket required
- AI False Positive Reduction: Stops false positive hits from opening in the first place, by deriving missing information like gender and entity type.
- Past Decision Recall: A resolved hit stays resolved until the underlying entity or list data actually changes — never review the same hit twice
- Feedback Loop: Sharpen precision over time with every decision feeds back into rule tuning, so precision keeps improving
Get started with Hawk's Agentic AI and stop your backlog before it builds
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During the demo, you'll see:
- How Hawk helps you catch more true risk while cutting false positives across AML, screening, and fraud
- How Hawk's AI agents can automate alert investigations, and catch what your team never had the hours to find, backed by full governance and human-in-the-loop controls
- How explainable, compliance-ready AI holds up under your regulators' and model risk management scrutiny
- Why institutions, like yours, choose Hawk for fast time to value — live in month, not years, with models that deliver precision from day one
- The results you could expect at your scale, based on peer outcomes
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