What the FIS-Anthropic Deal Tells Banks About the Coming Shift to Agent-First Lending in 2026

Financial crime compliance was not the obvious starting point. Yet when FIS, one of banking’s most consequential infrastructure providers, chose where to deploy its first agentic AI product built with Anthropic, it chose anti-money laundering investigations. That choice carries a logic worth understanding, because it maps almost exactly onto the pattern that defines every durable […]