Hawk

Product overview

Hawk is a Munich-based company that provides AI-powered anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions screening, and fraud detection technology to banks, payment providers, and fintechs. The platform combines traditional rules-based monitoring with explainable AI to detect suspicious transactions in real time while reducing false positive alerts. Hawk processes billions of transactions across more than 60 countries. Founded in 2018 by Tobias Schweiger and Wolfgang Berner, the company has raised around $84 million in total, including a $56 million Series C led by One Peak in April 2025. Other investors include Macquarie Capital, Rabobank, BlackFin Capital Partners, Sands Capital, and DN Capital. Hawk serves over 80 customers globally, including Ecobank, Vodafone, Worldline, VakifBank International, and Synctera. The company's AML AI Overlay product allows banks to add AI capabilities on top of their existing compliance systems without replacing them. Hawk reports that it can increase alert prediction accuracy to nearly 90% in some cases while cutting false positives by 50% and detecting twice as many previously unidentified cases of criminal activity. The platform runs on a cloud-native architecture supporting AWS and Azure deployments. KEY FEATURES: - AML transaction monitoring combining rules and explainable AI - Payment and customer screening against sanctions and risk lists - AML AI Overlay adding AI detection to existing compliance systems - Customer risk rating combining static and dynamic transaction data - Cloud-native architecture with multi-cloud deployment on AWS and Azure

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