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Horizon Scanning Agent

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Pre-Built & Custom Agents

Horizon Scanning Agent

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Pre-Built & Custom Agents

Horizon Scanning Agent

How can institutions keep up with regulatory and geopolitical change when traditional monitoring falls behind?

Agentic AI can be deployed to continuously monitor, interpret, and contextualise regulatory and geopolitical developments, enabling faster, more consistent risk assessment without reliance on manual processes.

How can compliance teams identify and respond to emerging financial crime risks in real time?

AI-powered horizon scanning detects regulatory and geopolitical changes as they occur, delivering clear, actionable insight into what has changed, what it means for the institution, and what actions may be required.

How can compliance teams identify and respond to emerging financial crime risks in real time?

AI-powered horizon scanning detects regulatory and geopolitical changes as they occur, delivering clear, actionable insight into what has changed, what it means for the institution, and what actions may be required.

How can banks assess the impact of regulatory changes on their internal policies and controls?

Iris 7’s Horizon Scanning Agent maps external regulatory and geopolitical developments directly to internal policies, controls, and obligations, enabling consistent decision-making and more confident responses to emerging risk.

How can banks assess the impact of regulatory changes on their internal policies and controls?

Iris 7’s Horizon Scanning Agent maps external regulatory and geopolitical developments directly to internal policies, controls, and obligations, enabling consistent decision-making and more confident responses to emerging risk.

Stay Ahead of Regulatory and Geopolitical Change in Real-Time

Financial crime teams face a fundamental challenge: regulatory and geopolitical change moves faster than traditional monitoring can keep up.

Stay Ahead of Regulatory and Geopolitical Change in Real-Time

Financial crime teams face a fundamental challenge: regulatory and geopolitical change moves faster than traditional monitoring can keep up.

Stay Ahead of Regulatory and Geopolitical Change in Real-Time

Financial crime teams face a fundamental challenge: regulatory and geopolitical change moves faster than traditional monitoring can keep up.

Across jurisdictions, AML rules evolve, sanctions regimes expand, and geopolitical events can change risk exposure overnight. Yet most institutions still rely on manual monitoring, fragmented sources, and ad hoc review by senior compliance staff.

The result is a slow, inconsistent, and resource-intensive process, making timely, institution-specific risk assessment difficult and limiting the ability to respond to emerging risks with confidence.

Key Client Challenges

Tracking evolving AML, sanctions, and financial crime regulations across jurisdictions

Interpreting what regulatory changes mean for internal policies, controls, and obligations

Interpreting what regulatory changes mean for internal policies, controls, and obligations

Monitoring geopolitical developments that can rapidly shift risk exposure

Monitoring geopolitical developments that can rapidly shift risk exposure

Responding to emerging risks before they become regulatory, financial, or reputational issues

How the Horizon Scanning Agent Works

Rather than simply aggregating information, the Horizon Scanning Agent continuously monitors, interprets, and contextualises regulatory and geopolitical developments against your compliance framework – turning change into clear, actionable insight.

How the Horizon Scanning Agent Works

Rather than simply aggregating information, the Horizon Scanning Agent continuously monitors, interprets, and contextualises regulatory and geopolitical developments against your compliance framework – turning change into clear, actionable insight.

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Continuous Monitoring

Trusted regulatory sources and reputable news outlets are continuously scanned to identify new regulations, guidance, enforcement actions, sanctions changes, and geopolitical developments across jurisdictions in real time.

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Contextual Interpretation

Each development is assessed for jurisdictional relevance, regulatory intent, and potential impact on sanctions screening, AML controls, customer risk, and transaction monitoring.

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Actionable Output

Clear, structured insight is delivered outlining what has changed, why it matters, which areas of the compliance framework are affected, and what risks may emerge if no action is taken.

Outcomes

Proactive Risk Management

The Horizon Scanning Agent enables institutions to anticipate regulatory and geopolitical change, align policies earlier, and respond with confidence. The result is faster, more consistent risk assessment with reduced reliance on manual monitoring.

Outcomes

Proactive Risk Management

The Horizon Scanning Agent enables institutions to anticipate regulatory and geopolitical change, align policies earlier, and respond with confidence. The result is faster, more consistent risk assessment with reduced reliance on manual monitoring.

Real-Time Regulatory Visibility

Continuous awareness of AML and sanctions developments across relevant jurisdictions, without the need for manual monitoring.

Real-Time Regulatory Visibility

Continuous awareness of AML and sanctions developments across relevant jurisdictions, without the need for manual monitoring.

Institution-Specific Interpretation

Clear mapping of external developments to internal policies, obligations, and controls.

Institution-Specific Interpretation

Clear mapping of external developments to internal policies, obligations, and controls.

Geopolitical Risk Awareness

Early insight into events that could impact financial crime risk, sanctions exposure, or counterparty relationships.

Geopolitical Risk Awareness

Early insight into events that could impact financial crime risk, sanctions exposure, or counterparty relationships.

Reduced Manual Overhead

Less reliance on senior compliance expertise for routine horizon scanning, allowing experts to focus on higher-value risk and strategic decisions.

Reduced Manual Overhead

Less reliance on senior compliance expertise for routine horizon scanning, allowing experts to focus on higher-value risk and strategic decisions.

Built for Governance

Every output is designed to operate within existing governance and decision-making frameworks, ensuring assessments remain transparent, controlled, and fully auditable.

Built for Governance

Every output is designed to operate within existing governance and decision-making frameworks, ensuring assessments remain transparent, controlled, and fully auditable.

Full Reasoning Transparency

Each assessment includes clear, structured reasoning, enabling compliance leaders to review, challenge, and validate interpretations.

Full Reasoning Transparency

Each assessment includes clear, structured reasoning, enabling compliance leaders to review, challenge, and validate interpretations.

Defined Governance Boundaries

Outputs align with internal governance parameters, review processes, and escalation pathways.

Defined Governance Boundaries

Outputs align with internal governance parameters, review processes, and escalation pathways.

Human-in-the-Loop

The agent supports decision-making but does not make policy changes. Final decisions remain with compliance leadership.

Human-in-the-Loop

The agent supports decision-making but does not make policy changes. Final decisions remain with compliance leadership.

Audit-Ready Documentation

Each assessment produces a complete record of what was identified, how it was interpreted, and what actions may be required.

Audit-Ready Documentation

Each assessment produces a complete record of what was identified, how it was interpreted, and what actions may be required.

Decision-Ready Output Structure

Decision-Ready Output Structure

Structured reasoning for every assessment

Mapped to your policy framework

Mapped to your policy framework

Jurisdictional scope clearly identified

Jurisdictional scope clearly identified

Downstream control impacts identified

Downstream control impacts identified

Outputs fully reviewable and auditable

Outputs fully reviewable and auditable

Aligned to internal governance processes

A platform for designing and deploying autonomous decision agents that automate complex financial crime investigations, enabling institutions to apply policy and expert reasoning at scale.

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