AI overlays guide: Integrating AI into your solution stack

Give your compliance, fraud, AML, and sanctions teams a faster, smarter way to uncover risk without replacing your core systems.
This free guide will help you:
- Understand the role of AI overlays in modern financial crime prevention
- Evaluate which overlays will deliver the highest ROI for your institution
- Learn from real customer transformations and measurable results
- Build a roadmap for adopting AI responsibly, efficiently, and at scale
What you’ll learn
How AI overlays supercharge your existing financial crime systems
Learn what AI overlays are, how they integrate seamlessly with your current tech stack, and why they provide immediate performance gains without requiring a costly 'rip-and-replace' overhaul. The guide explains how overlays augment your existing tools with generative and predictive AI for faster, more accurate investigations.
Where AI overlays deliver the biggest impact
Explore practical, real-world use cases across the entire financial crime lifecycle, including:
- AML transaction monitoring – detecting anomalies that rules miss, and reducing false positives by up to 77%.
- Sanctions screening – scanning watchlists in milliseconds with 100% retention of true positives.
- Payment fraud – real-time scoring, blocking, and decisioning.
- Data aggregation and investigation – unifying siloed systems and providing a holistic, enterprise-wide view of risk.
- KYC/CDD – enabling perpetual customer profiling with continuous risk refresh.
What to look for when evaluating AI overlays
The guide walks you through the must-have criteria to ensure AI overlays deliver value on day one, such compatibility, scalability, user experience, transparency, and continuous updates. These checkpoints help organizations avoid vendor lock-in and ensure future-proof AI adoption.
How leading banks are already succeeding with overlays
Study real customer results, including:
- €3.5M saved annually with SRI Investigation.
- 77% reduction in false positives with SRI AML TM.
- Significantly improved sanctions screening accuracy and efficiency.
Why you should download it
Transform financial crime operations without replacing your current systems
AI overlays allow institutions to unlock immediate productivity gains by enhancing your existing systems rather than rebuilding your tech stack. The guide shows how overlays layer seamlessly on top of your current processes and dramatically accelerate speed-to-value.
A practical playbook for staying ahead of criminals and regulators
Financial crime threats are evolving quickly, and regulators are raising expectations. This guide provides a roadmap for adopting AI responsibly. This helps you boost detection accuracy, reduce false positives, and demonstrate strong governance across AML, fraud, sanctions, and KYC functions.
Built on real results from global financial institutions
The guide is packed with case studies from banks across Europe, Africa, and the U.S. that have already deployed AI overlays to reduce risk, cut investigation time, and achieve award-winning improvements in compliance operations.
Clear next steps for choosing and deploying overlays successfully
From initial assessment to phased implementation, the guide includes practical steps for enabling overlays across your enterprise. You’ll get insights into governance, stakeholder alignment, PoV setup, and optimization best practices.
Download the guide today
Get immediate access to AI overlays guide: Integrating AI into your solution stack and discover how intelligent AI overlays supercharge your current tech stack, reduce false positives, and help your teams uncover risk faster.
Related resources
SRI Risk Intelligence
SRI Screening
Guide to AI for Sanctions Screening
Case Study - Leading European bank upgrades investigations, saves €3.5M annually
Case Study - Absa transforms its financial crime capabilities with AI