Hawk expands global Partner Program to accelerate ai-led Financial Crime transformation. Hawk, the leading provider of AI-powered financial crime and compliance technology, today announced a significant expansion of its global partner program, introducing a dedicated Partner Portal and a training and certification pathway to deepen collaboration with its growing network of partners. Financial institutions are under increasing pressure to use AI to modernize their anti-money laundering, screening, and fraud prevention operations. At the same time, they must manage evolving regulatory expectations and update their governance, controls, and operating models. Enabling financial institutions to meet these challenges requires a combination of advanced technology, advisory expertise, implementation capabilities, data, governance, and a deep understanding of the institution's operating environment. Hawk's Partner Program is designed to bring those capabilities together. "Financial institutions want to operationalize AI effectively and at scale for financial crime and compliance," said Tobias Schweiger, CEO and Co-Founder of Hawk. "Our partners play an essential role in helping institutions navigate that transformation. By combining Hawk's explainable AI and financial crime expertise with the capabilities of our partner ecosystem, we can deliver stronger and more sustainable outcomes for customers." The enhanced program provides a clearer framework for how partners can work with Hawk across customer engagement, joint go-to-market activity, thought leadership, solution development, and implementation. It will also make it easier for partners to access the knowledge, content, training, and support they need to better understand the capabilities of Hawk and the opportunities for AI in financial crime and compliance. Martin Hirtreiter, Partner, Financial Crime, Deloitte Germany, commented; "Financial institutions are increasingly looking beyond AI experimentation toward practical adoption across financial crime operations. "Achieving that transition requires more than technology alone. It calls for a clear operating model, robust governance, strong implementation capabilities, and deep financial crime expertise. Collaboration across advisory and technology partners can help institutions translate AI ambition into responsible and measurable transformation." July 1, 2026

Hawk releases AML Investigative Agent to drastically reduce costs and enhance quality of anti-money laundering investigations. Hawk, the leading provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering (AML), screening, and fraud prevention solutions, today announced the launch of its AML Investigative Agent, enabling financial institutions to significantly reduce the cost of their AML operations. Rising financial crime complexity combined with manual investigation workflows means that compliance teams often struggle to cope with case backlogs. Hawk's AML Investigative Agent automates the heavy lifting - from data gathering and case summarization to typology identification and the drafting of Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) narratives. By automating labor-intensive tasks, the AML Investigative Agent allows financial institutions to scale their operations without a linear increase in headcount. This shift also allows firms to pursue revenue growth and launch new products without being held back by manual investigation limits. Key features of the AML Investigative Agent include: * Seamless Integration: A model-agnostic, modular overlay approach that fits into existing tech stacks and case management solutions * Fits to Existing Workflows: Offers the ability to extract workflows from existing operating procedures, with built-in human-in-the-loop controls that pause execution at defined steps for human review, approval, or input * Deep AML Typology Expertise: In-built, continually updated domain knowledge identifies financial crime patterns with precision that generic AI cannot match * Extends Investigation Coverage: Analyzes extensive datasets that no human could digest in limited timescales to improve investigation quality * Regulatory-Grade Explainability: Provides chain of thought visualization, confidence scores, citations and detailed action logs "The cost savings offered by agentic AI in financial crime and compliance are simply too compelling for any bank or payment firm to ignore," said Wolfgang Berner, Chief Product Officer at Hawk. "Using agentic AI to support parts of every investigation delivers benefits that scale very quickly, bringing impactful results to financial institutions of all sizes." "Hawk is unique in our ability to use AI to solve two big AML challenges: improving detection quality to reduce false positives, and significantly cutting the time required to deliver well-structured investigations for the cases that matter. Hawk delivers both with the rigorous explainability that is non-negotiable for regulators." According to data from Chartis, financial institutions are either already embracing agentic AI for investigations or are looking to do so. In their report, AI in Financial Crime & Compliance - Charting the Path from Pilot to Maturity: * 85% of institutions expect to increase agentic AI investment over the next 2-3 years * 61% rank investigations as the number one area to be transformed by agentic AI * 21% report they are already using agentic AI for investigations and case management The AML Investigative Agent is the latest evolution of Hawk's AI-native platform, used by banks and payment organizations globally to stay ahead of financial crime. 25. March 2026

Hawk ranks among top 20 global leaders in FCC50 2026. Hawk, the leading provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering (AML), fraud prevention, and screening solutions, today announced it has been ranked #18 in the 2026 Financial Crime and Compliance50 (FCC50) by Chartis Research. For the second consecutive year, Hawk has also been honored with the category award for Innovation: Real-Time Transaction Monitoring. The Chartis FCC50 is an elite ranking of the world's top 50 vendors in financial crime technology. Vendors are evaluated on their market impact, strategic vision, and technical innovation across key disciplines. Moving up the rankings to the #18 spot underscores Hawk's rapid growth and the widespread adoption of its explainable AI by Tier 1 banks and global payment providers. "Securing a top 20 position in the FCC50 and winning the Innovation Award for Real-Time Transaction Monitoring is a testament to our team's dedication to redefining the fight against financial crime," said Wolfgang Berner, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Hawk. "As the industry shifts from reactive, batch-based monitoring to proactive, real-time prevention, our goal is to provide the precision and speed necessary to stop illicit activity as it happens. We are proud that Chartis continues to recognize Hawk as the gold standard for real-time AI in this space." Hawk's award-winning AML and fraud prevention solutions enable financial institutions to detect complex criminal patterns - ranging from sophisticated transaction fraud and scam attempts to intricate money laundering and mule networks - instantly. By applying transparent, auditable machine learning to vast transaction volumes, Hawk often helps firms reduce false positives by 70% or more while significantly increasing the detection of true financial crime. This recognition follows a year of significant milestones for Hawk, including the launch of Analytics Studio, its AI lifecycle management solution. 9. March 2026