BMO and Amalgamated Bank are currently testing the agent in development, with general availability planned for the second half of 2026. Anthropic's Applied AI team and forward-deployed engineers are embedded with FIS to co-design the system. The architecture maintains client data within FIS-controlled infrastructure with full auditability and traceability. FIS is simultaneously building evaluation frameworks and knowledge transfer mechanisms to scale additional agents across credit decisioning, deposit retention, customer onboarding, and fraud prevention.
The deployment signals a significant expansion of agentic AI into regulated financial services. Attorneys should monitor how regulators respond to the architecture—particularly the data governance model and audit trail requirements—as these design choices will likely become templates for other financial institutions deploying similar systems. The roadmap across multiple banking functions also suggests FIS intends this partnership to reshape how compliance and risk functions operate, making early performance data from BMO and Amalgamated Bank critical to understanding regulatory acceptance.