Themis Launches AI Investigator Against Financial Crime
Themis, a B-Corp and pioneer in anti-financial crime innovation, has launched AI Investigator, a generative AI-driven due diligence platform designed to transform how organizations detect and prevent financial crime. Developed with input from hundreds of compliance professionals and supported by an Innovate UK grant, the platform leverages proprietary data and domain-specific models to deliver real-time risk analysis within minutes instead of days or weeks.
The platform automates investigations across ownership structures, adverse media, and regulatory filings, providing compliance teams with accessible, scalable, and powerful insights. Unlike traditional methods that are resource-intensive and sluggish, AI Investigator aims to democratize due diligence, making sophisticated financial crime defences available to organizations of all sizes.
Dickon Johnstone, CEO of Themis, emphasized the transformational potential: “When we look back in a few years, we’ll wonder how due diligence was ever done without AI. By making checks quicker and broader in reach, our AML-trained AI agents turn this into something accessible and instinctive for all. By putting enhanced due diligence into everyone’s hands, we are truly democratising due diligence. That’s how we finally gain the upper hand in the fight against financial crime and stop the deliberate exploitation of people, businesses and the natural world around us by criminals and organised crime groups.”
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Core Capabilities Of AI Investigator
The platform integrates multiple capabilities designed to :
- AI-Driven Investigations: Automated checks by AI agents with minimal manual input.
- Behavioural Analysis & Pattern Matching: Detects links to financial crime using conviction data and typologies.
- Financial Crime Indicators: Proprietary knowledge base covering predicate crime types to uncover hidden risks.
- Scalable & Cloud-Agnostic: Seamless environments.
The design of AI Investigator reflects collaboration with Themis’ client base, which spans financial institutions, corporates, professional services, private equity, real estate, and government. By incorporating feedback from this diverse community, Themis has created a platform tailored for real-world complexity and cross-sector adoption.
Its flexibility also ensures it can adapt beyond regulated sectors, providing powerful investigative support for organizations exposed to financial crime risks in both traditional and emerging industries.
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Global Launch From Abu Dhabi’s AI Hub
The global unveiling of AI Investigator comes against the backdrop of Abu Dhabi’s Falcon Economy vision, which is driving AED 13 billion in AI investments between 2025 and 2027. Abu Dhabi is positioning itself as a , with institutions like ADGM and Hub71 powering rapid innovation. This environment provided an ideal stage for Themis to launch its breakthrough answer.
Themis has advanced its proprietary LLMs and agentic AI models within this ecosystem, refining them under the guidance of financial crime specialists. The result is a platform that merges cutting-edge AI with deep domain expertise, critical for effective compliance and enforcement.
By embedding tools, Themis is setting a new benchmark for how technology can level the playing field in the fight against financial crime, ensuring even smaller organizations have defences once reserved for the largest institutions.
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