Hawk, a provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering, screening and fraud prevention solutions, has announced the launch of Analytics Studio, a new AI lifecycle management solution designed to give banks and payment companies greater control over how their AI models are created, maintained and governed.
The launch comes as the use of artificial intelligence becomes increasingly widespread across financial services, with the majority of banks now actively encouraging its adoption. As AI takes on a more central role in financial crime prevention, institutions face growing pressure to ensure their models can be rapidly developed and updated while remaining aligned with regulatory expectations and evolving financial crime typologies.
Analytics Studio is intended to address this challenge by enabling firms to optimise risk coverage while ensuring models are ready for approval, defence and audit.
Analytics Studio streamlines AI model development and retraining, offering anti-financial crime teams flexibility in how models are managed. Financial institutions seeking full control and visibility can use expert-designed financial crime model templates, copilot-guided model creation tools and pre-built AI performance dashboards. Automated model documentation is also included, helping teams accelerate development while ensuring models are regulator-ready from the outset.
In addition to in-house model management, institutions can choose to draw on Hawk’s data science services for initial model development as well as ongoing maintenance and retraining.
Through Analytics Studio, financial institutions are able to build and update expert models with less reliance on internal or third-party data science and IT resources, increasing speed to deployment while reducing overall costs. The solution also allows financial crime domain intelligence to be embedded directly into models, improving performance and reducing exposure to risk. Governance features such as explainability, documentation and versioning are incorporated across the AI lifecycle, making models easier to approve, defend and audit.
Hawk chief product officer Wolfgang Berner said, “Hawk customers already benefit from AI models that have been outperforming the market for years, finding double the crime with half the investigative effort. With Analytics Studio, we are now giving financial institutions the flexibility to manage the entire model lifecycle themselves—from development and validation to ongoing optimization—so they can take their AI capabilities to the next level with speed and regulatory confidence.”
Analytics Studio is the latest addition to Hawk’s AI-native anti-financial crime platform. Banks and payment organisations around the world use Hawk’s technology for AML, screening and fraud prevention, supported by AI modules that enhance the prevention, detection, investigation and reporting of financial crime.
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