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Guide to Explainable AI in Financial Services

01.05.2026

Download this guide to explainable AI and learn how to balance innovation with accountability in financial crime prevention.

Guide to Explainable AI in Financial Services

What you’ll learn

Why explainable AI matters in financial crime prevention

AI can detect patterns and anomalies at scale, reduce false positives, and help teams focus on real risk. Without explainability, it can be hard to justify decisions to regulators, stakeholders, and customers. This guide explains why transparency and accountability are essential for financial services organizations using AI.

How explainability strengthens trust and compliance

Learn how explainable AI supports confidence across key stakeholders:

  • Regulators: Clearer accountability and defensible decisioning
  • Customers: Reassurance that decisions are consistent and fair
  • Investigation teams: Confidence to act faster with clear reasoning behind alerts

What regulations and emerging AI laws mean for your AI strategy

Understand why explainability is becoming a requirement, including the need for meaningful explanations in automated decisioning and how AI-specific regulation is accelerating globally.

How explainability works in AML and sanctions screening

See how explainability is applied in real-life examples, including:

  • AML: AI scores paired with human-readable, natural-language explanations so investigators can understand why an alert is likely true or false positive.
  • Sanctions screening: Generative AI extracts context from unstructured text, predictive AI evaluates match likelihood, and the system returns explanations alongside probability, helping reduce false positives while retaining true positives.

Why you should download it

Meet regulatory expectations with decisions you can defend

When AI influences alerts, escalations, or customer outcomes, regulators and internal model risk teams will expect clear, auditable reasoning. This guide shows how explainability supports governance, transparency, and confident approvals.

Accelerate investigations and reduce false-positive workload

Explainable outputs help analysts see what drove an alert, prioritize the highest-risk cases, and resolve low-risk cases faster. This improves speed, consistency, and decision quality across AML and sanctions workflows.

Increase internal trust among stakeholders

Even strong models can stall if stakeholders don’t trust them. Explainability helps align compliance, operations, legal, and leadership, making it easier to move from pilots to scaled deployment.

Turn an abstract concept into practical requirements

The guide connects explainability to real financial crime use cases (including AML and sanctions), helping teams translate ‘explainable AI’ into concrete evaluation criteria, controls, and implementation decisions.

Download the guide today

Get the Guide to Explainable AI in Financial Services and learn how to implement AI that is not only powerful but also transparent, defensible, and regulator-ready.

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