AI Auto-Generates & Enforces Global Sanctions Updates
In 2026, banks finally break from slow, manually curated sanctions feeds and adopt autonomous AI systems that detect, interpret, and publish sanctions updates the moment regulators announce them.
By Aneta Klosek, Founder of Aithea - AI Enthusiast in Finnancial Crime Prevention
2026 will be the year this really lands — and it’s going to put serious pressure on traditional data providers.
Banks are under huge cost-cutting pressure, especially in Financial Crime Compliance, and they simply have to become more self-sufficient. That means relying less on curated, manually collected sanctions data and more on AI systems that can detect, interpret, and publish updates almost instantly.
Any vendor still doing this work manually will struggle to keep up. The old SLAs won’t cut it anymore. Near real-time updates — from the moment a regulator publishes a change — will become the new industry standard.
