Ankura Launches Expert-Led, AI-Enabled Managed Services to Help Financial Institutions Scale Financial Crime Compliance Operations

(New York, NY – April 28, 2026) Ankura Consulting Group LLC (“Ankura”) a leading global advisory and expert services firm, today announced the launch of a new Managed Services offering designed to help banks, payment providers, and financial services organizations meet growing regulatory demands while improving efficiency and operational resilience. The new service offering expands Ankura’s ability to deliver scalable, technology-enabled solutions leveraging a global delivery model across key geographic regions. This global delivery approach not only enhances coverage and responsiveness but also drives significant cost reductions while strengthening operational resiliency for clients.

With decades of experience supporting global and regional banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, payment platforms, and other high-growth digital financial institutions, Ankura’s Managed Services group combines deep financial crime compliance expertise with advanced AI-driven automation solutions and a global footprint to deploy skilled resources across diverse geographies and time zones, ensuring 24/7 operational coverage and rapid response to client needs. The launch comes as financial institutions face heightened regulatory scrutiny, rising transaction volumes, and growing pressure to modernize compliance operations responsibly.

“Organizations across the financial ecosystem are under immense pressure to manage risk more efficiently and effectively,” said Regina Lee, Head of Risk Advisory for Ankura. “The formation of our Managed Services group enhances Ankura’s ability to provide end-to-end, operationally robust solutions, delivered by experts that have worked across traditional financial institutions and next generation digital asset platforms to drive operational rigor, industry insight, and the ability to scale quickly in complex, highly regulated environments.”

AI-Enabled Financial Crime Compliance Operations

A key differentiator of Ankura’s new Managed Services offering is the integration of Ankura’s proprietary “AI Analyst”, an agentic AI platform designed to streamline financial crime compliance workflows using advanced AI technologies including large language models, machine learning, and intelligent automation. The platform delivers intelligent workflow automation, advanced analytics, and large-scale summarization capabilities for financial institutions, resulting in accelerated reviews, reduced manual effort, improved accuracy and consistency, and lower operational costs while maintaining regulatory rigor and quality standards.

“With our Managed Services offering, we’ve paired deep human expertise with cutting-edge technology to deliver faster, more accurate risk decisions while significantly reducing cost and operational pressure,” said Lee Hale, Co-Head of Financial Crime Compliance. “This approach helps compliance and risk leaders reduce operational strain, manage cost, and scale confidently as regulatory expectations continue to rise.”

Comprehensive Managed Services Capabilities

From regulatory lookbacks and backlogs to ongoing reviews of alerts and cases, our operational model is rapidly deployable, scalable, and has been implemented across multiple functional areas, such as:

• Financial Crime Operations with embedded quality controls – AML/KYC alert reviews, transaction monitoring investigations, sanctions screening, fraud alerts and investigations, and enhanced due diligence.
• Regulatory Filings & Reporting – preparation and submission of critical regulatory reports, including Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs), Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs), and other jurisdiction-specific filings requiring accuracy, timeliness, and deep domain knowledge.
• Risk Monitoring & Analytics – ongoing brand risk management, market manipulation and insider trading surveillances, exam-ready reporting, and technology enabled risk insights.
• Crypto & Fintech Support – regulatory readiness, tailored controls, operational scaling, and virtual asset compliance frameworks.