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Hawk AI

Explainable AI for AML and fraud surveillance

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About

Hawk AI is a cloud-native platform that helps banks and payment companies fight financial crime, layering explainable AI over rule-based transaction monitoring, payment and customer screening, and customer risk rating. Its differentiator is transparency: every alert comes with an explanation that regulators can audit, and its AI Overlay product upgrades existing AML systems without replacing them. Founded in Munich in 2018, it raised $56M in 2025 to expand in the US. Like all compliance software, it comes with long sales cycles, and false-positive reduction claims are vendor-measured.

What it can do

  • Real-time transaction monitoring
  • Explainable AI detection
  • Payment and customer screening
  • Customer risk rating
  • AML AI Overlay for existing systems
  • Unified case management with audit trails

Setup

  1. Request a demo scoped to your transaction monitoring needs
  2. Connect transaction, payment, and customer data feeds
  3. Configure rules plus AI detection layers and risk models
  4. Route alerts into case management with audit-ready explanations

Prerequisites

Bank, fintech, or payment company; compliance team; transaction and customer data

Use cases

Monitor transactions for money laundering in real timeScreen payments and customers against sanctions and watchlistsLayer AI over an existing AML stack without replacing it

Works with

CSI

Trust score — 7/10

/10 trustVerified

Scored 7/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Customers include banks and payment processors across regions; $56M raise in 2025 funds US expansion and product work; Proprietary; explainability is a product feature, not open models. License: Proprietary commercial product; enterprise contract required..

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
6.0/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
8.0/10
Openness · license + docs
4.0/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
7.0/10
  • · Customers include banks and payment processors across regions
  • · $56M raise in 2025 funds US expansion and product work
  • · Proprietary; explainability is a product feature, not open models

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