Around The Coin Fighting Financial Crime With AI - Joe Robinson | ATC #595
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Jan 21, 2026 
Joe Robinson, CEO and co-founder of Hummingbird — a risk and compliance product leader from Square and Circle. He explains how AI and cleaned investigative data speed suspicious activity reporting, balances automation with regulatory explainability, and tackles emerging AI-enabled fraud and dark web trends. Conversation also covers investigator UX, transaction monitoring, and how better data helps law enforcement and compliance teams.
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Dual AI Roles: Writing And Summarizing
- Two AI modalities matter: LLMs for clearer report writing and models to summarize diverse investigation data.
- AI both improves SAR quality and surfaces signals investigators might miss.
Use AI As An Investigator Coach
- Feed AI your training manuals so it can coach investigators and flag overlooked details.
- Use AI as an assistant to improve report quality and investigator consistency.
Scams Are Industrialized And AI-Powered
- Financial crime trends now include large organized scam centers and AI-enabled social engineering.
- Joe warns these operations resemble city-sized, coercive enterprises using AI and deepfakes.
