Decision Engineering with AI

Industries — BFSI

AI and analytics consultancy for BFSI in the UAE and GCC

Fraud, underwriting and compliance all move faster than manual review can keep up with. We help BFSI institutions deploy AI and agentic systems with an audit trail regulators can trust.

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Why BFSI needs AI now

GCC central banks are actively pushing open banking and digital finance mandates, and fraud volumes are rising alongside digital transaction growth. Financial institutions that still rely on manual review for fraud and underwriting are absorbing cost and risk that automated, governed systems are built to handle. Industry projections put agentic AI adoption in banking at over 70 percent by the end of 2026 across the region.

Regulators across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are also raising expectations for explainability in automated decisions — a system that flags a transaction must be able to show why, not just that it did. This is exactly the governance-first approach we build into every deployment.

Key benefits for BFSI institutions

  • Faster fraud and AML case resolution with full audit trails
  • Reduced false-positive rates through better-calibrated models
  • Shorter KYC onboarding times without compromising compliance
  • Defensible, explainable decisions for regulators and auditors

Our method, for BFSI

Assess

Review fraud, underwriting and compliance workflows for cost, delay or risk exposure.

Architect

Design solutions around your regulatory environment from the start.

Adapt

Calibrate models against your institution’s actual transaction and claims data.

Automate

Deploy fraud and underwriting agents with every flagged decision logged and reviewable.

Agentic AI for BFSI: KYC automation, AML screening and fraud investigation

A fraud and AML monitoring agent continuously reviews transaction patterns and flags suspicious activity in real time. KYC automation agents can handle document collection and identity verification, screening against watchlists automatically. Every flag includes the reasoning trail behind it.

Frequently asked questions

What are the best use cases for agentic AI in banking?

KYC and AML automation, fraud investigation and transaction monitoring, loan origination support, and regulatory reporting — all designed with human review at the decision points that matter.

Relevant experience

Marketways Arabia’s consulting team has worked on data strategy and analytics projects spanning fraud detection, risk modelling and customer analytics for financial services organizations across the region. As specialists in agentic AI banking UAE deployments, we combine AI fraud detection Dubai expertise with the regulatory fluency BFSI institutions require.

“What stood out was the governance thinking. They treated risk as part of the design, not an afterthought.”— CTO, Financial services firm, UAE

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