PALO ALTO, Calif. – Sept. 9, 2026 – SymphonyAI, a leading provider of AI-native anti-financial crime solutions, today announced it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Financial Crime Management Solutions, Q3 2026. Among the 15 providers evaluated in this inaugural assessment of the unified financial crime management category, SymphonyAI achieved the highest Strategy category score of any vendor.
According to the report, “SymphonyAI’s vision excels, with a strong focus on compliance effectiveness, regulatory-ready AI, and modularity.”
To SymphonyAI, this recognition reflects the platform strategy it has invested in for years: a single, unified risk intelligence foundation built to extend across compliance and risk challenges, not a point tool limited to one workflow. The report also notes that “SymphonyAI’s watchlist integration and use is outstanding,” and positions SymphonyAI as “well suited for large financial services enterprises that require defensible risk scoring.”
SymphonyAI built its Financial Crime Management platform on a simple premise: compliance should hold up under scrutiny by design, not by periodic review. The platform continuously translates regulatory change, new threat signals, and evolving business activity into detection and decisioning that stays current, drawing on a single, ontology-driven, entity-centric foundation that gives detection, investigation, and leadership one consistent, always up-to-date picture of risk across fraud, AML, and KYC.
That same foundation is what makes SymphonyAI’s AI regulatory-ready: models and workflows are built for explainability and auditability from the outset, so institutions can adopt AI-driven detection without sacrificing the defensibility regulators expect. And because the platform is modular by design, financial institutions can adopt AI at their own pace, rather than committing to an all-or-nothing overhaul.
“We were encouraged to see Forrester acknowledge us, and we believe it affirms the approach we’ve been building toward,” said John Edison, President of Financial Services at SymphonyAI. “Financial crime management is where we’ve proven our unified platform strategy most deeply, but it’s designed to extend further — the same core intelligence, applied to whatever risk domain our customers need next. To us, to be recognized as a Leader, with the highest Strategy category score of any vendor evaluated, is validation of that direction from an independent, rigorous source.”
We believe this inaugural Forrester Wave evaluation reflects a broader shift in the market: fraud management and AML/KYC increasingly assessed as a single, converged discipline rather than separate disciplines with separate tools. For SymphonyAI, its recognition as a Leader reflects a platform built for that convergence, and for the compliance effectiveness and regulatory-ready AI it demands, from the outset.
A complimentary copy of The Forrester Wave™: Financial Crime Management Solutions, Q3 2026 is available here.
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SymphonyAI delivers Vertical AI product platforms that help enterprises solve their most complex, high-value challenges — from stopping financial crime to improving store performance and boosting manufacturing efficiency. Trusted by more than 2,000 enterprise customers worldwide, including 200 of the top financial institutions, the top 25 CPG companies, and many of the world’s largest grocers and industrial manufacturers, SymphonyAI provides domain-trained applications and pre-built agents that are ready to work on day one.
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