Where should financial crime use AI?
We help you decide.
Independent advisory that turns AI and automation opportunity into
practical, prioritised, measurable decisions,
grounded in how financial crime functions actually work.
A conversation about your problem. No pitch deck, no obligation.
20+ years in financial crime
Banks, FinTechs & payments
Vendor-independent
Opportunity & Prioritisation Map
Extract
AreaValueEffortRank
Alert triage High Medium 1
KYC file summarisation High Low 2
MI & board reporting Medium Low 3
Final SAR decision – –
Keep human-led.
Some activities should not be automated. Saying so is part of the work.
Illustrative structure only. Every map is built from your processes and your constraints.
The services
Two focused engagements.
Most financial crime functions are not short of AI ideas. They are short of a defensible way to
decide which ideas deserve budget, which need more work, and which should never leave the room.
Both services are built to settle that, and can be bought independently.
Service 01
Financial Crime AI Strategy & Transformation
“Where should we use AI, and what should we do first?”
We establish where AI can genuinely create value across your financial crime function, which opportunities deserve to go first, and how adoption should be governed. Experimentation becomes a roadmap management can approve.
Typical scope: KYC and CDD, sanctions and PEP, transaction monitoring, investigations, QA, MI and governance.
What you receive: Financial Crime AI Opportunity & Prioritisation Map, plus a phased adoption roadmap.
“Where can we simplify or automate, and what is it worth?”
We find where manual work is consuming capacity, establish what can realistically be simplified, redesigned or automated, and size the opportunity responsibly. You get a business case that survives scrutiny.
Agree the management question, the scope, and the decisions this work has to enable.
2
Discover
Understand the processes, pain points, systems, constraints and what is already in flight.
3
Prioritise
Score every opportunity on value, feasibility, complexity, risk and human judgement required.
4
Recommend
Turn the analysis into an Opportunity Map, a roadmap and decisions you can take to committee.
And when you want it built, we can build it
The assessment stands on its own, and plenty of clients will stop there. But if you want to
act on it, you do not have to go and find a delivery partner. FinCrime Agent brings in
trusted, highly experienced AI and automation specialists, people we have worked with and
vouch for, to take selected opportunities through business case, pilot and implementation.
You keep one accountable point of contact who understands both the financial crime problem
and the technical build.
Scope is agreed case by case against your security, data handling and deployment
requirements, so nothing is promised before we understand your environment.
Recommendations separate fact, client data, assumption and estimate. You will not be handed a
savings number that cannot survive an audit committee.
Why FinCrime Agent
Not a technology pitch.
Financial crime first
The work starts from your controls, processes and stakeholders, not from a technology roadmap looking for somewhere to land.
Clarity, not hype
High-value opportunities separated from weak use cases, with the ranking and the assumptions behind it made explicit.
Willing to say no
A recommendation not to automate, or not to use AI, is a legitimate outcome. An independent read has to be able to say it.
Capacity when you need it
When internal engineering and transformation teams are committed elsewhere, this moves valuable work forward without waiting.
Who you work with
Marco Beranzoni
Two decades inside financial crime, and more recently on the technology side, running
workshops with financial institutions across Europe on where AI genuinely improves detection
and reduces operational load. That combination is the point: enough domain depth to know when
a control matters, and enough technology exposure to know when a demo is overselling.
Experience
20+ years in financial crime
Speaking
Five years of panels and conferences, including the OECD Forum
Perspective
Practitioner and financial crime technology
Questions
Before you get in touch.
What does an advisory engagement cost?
There is no fixed price list. Engagements are scoped against the problem, the processes in scope and the access required, so cost follows the shape of the work rather than a package. The first conversation is free, and you will have an indicative scope and cost before committing to anything.
Can you implement, or is this advice only?
Both. The assessment is designed to stand on its own and deliver value even if nothing is built afterwards. But where you want to act on it, FinCrime Agent brings in trusted, highly experienced AI and automation specialists to take selected opportunities through business case, pilot and implementation. You do not need to go and source a separate delivery partner, and you keep one point of contact who understands both the financial crime problem and the technical build. Scope is agreed case by case against your security, data handling and deployment requirements.
We already have an innovation or AI team. Why would we need this?
Often the gap is not AI capability but financial crime context. Innovation teams can build; what they frequently lack is a grounded view of which financial crime problems are worth solving, where controls constrain the design, and where human judgement has to stay. The other common gap is capacity, when internal teams are committed to core product or regulatory programmes and cannot pick up financial crime work however valuable it is.
Are you tied to a particular vendor or platform?
No. The work is deliberately technology-agnostic. The right answer to a process problem may be conventional automation, workflow redesign, integration, better use of a platform you already own, AI, or simply simplifying the process. Recommending a specific product is not the business model.
How is this different from engaging a large consultancy?
Scope and focus. This is not a broad financial crime consultancy offering remediation, audit, policy and staffing. It is two focused services at the intersection of financial crime, AI and process, delivered directly by a practitioner rather than through a leveraged team. For some problems a large firm is genuinely the better choice, and you will be told when that is the case.
Start a conversation
An exploratory discussion, not a pitch.
Book 30 minutes to talk through your problem. If there is a credible engagement in it, we
will scope one. If there isn’t, you get an honest view of that instead, which is usually
worth the half hour on its own.
