AI and public-private cooperation to combat financial crime

21 April 2026

Addressing financial crime today means tackling increasingly complex schemes, often spread across multiple entities and jurisdictions, requiring advanced data analysis capabilities and the sharing of approaches and expertise.

Within this context, the pilot project developed by Intesa Sanpaolo together with the Anti Financial Crime Digital Hub - a consortium established by the Bank in partnership with Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, Politecnico di Torino and University of Turin - represents a public-private collaboration aimed at improving the detection of suspicious transactions, including through the development of algorithms based on artificial intelligence techniques.

The initiative also involved the Guardia di Finanza (Italy's financial police), the Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (Italy's anti-mafia investigative directorate), the Bank of Italy and the Financial Intelligence Unit for Italy.