Financial crime solutions firm Themis has unveiled AI Investigator, a large language model (LLM)-driven due diligence platform aimed at making advanced anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance tools more widely accessible.
Backed by an Innovate UK grant and developed with input from hundreds of compliance professionals, the platform uses generative AI and proprietary data to automate investigations, delivering results in minutes instead of days. Key features include ownership mapping, adverse media checks, regulatory filing reviews, and behavioural pattern analysis to assess links to criminal activity.
“When we look back in a few years, we’ll wonder how due diligence was ever done without AI,” said Dickon Johnstone, CEO of Themis. “By putting enhanced due diligence into everyone’s hands, we are democratising compliance and gaining the upper hand in the fight against financial crime,” he told attendees at the launch.
Themis said its proprietary knowledge base of financial crime indicators enables the AI platform to flag risks across a wide spectrum of predicate crimes with greater precision and context. It is also cloud-agnostic, designed for integration across sectors from financial institutions and private equity to real estate and government.
The launch comes as Abu Dhabi positions itself as a global AI hub, with AED 13 billion earmarked for AI investments between 2025 and 2027 under the UAE’s “Falcon Economy” strategy. Institutions such as ADGM and Hub71 have played a role in fostering an ecosystem where companies like Themis are accelerating breakthroughs in domain-specific AI applications.
The move underscores growing pressure on organisations worldwide to strengthen compliance amid increasingly complex regulatory regimes and cross-border financial crime risks. Analysts note that accessible, AI-driven due diligence solutions could reshape how both regulated and non-regulated sectors approach compliance.
