AI isn’t just transforming fraud detection and compliance—it’s now becoming the frontline defense. WorkFusion, a prominent provider of AI agents designed for financial crime compliance (FCC), has entered a strategic partnership with Allied Engineering Group (AEG), one of the oldest and most influential banking technology providers across the Middle East, GCC, Africa, Turkey, Cyprus, and Greece.
The agreement positions AEG as a regional reseller of WorkFusion’s flagship AI agents—including Evelyn, Tara, and Evan—bringing automated sanctions screening, payments filtering, and adverse media triage to a market where compliance workloads and regulatory pressure continue to surge.
It’s a pairing that blends the strengths of both sides: WorkFusion’s agentic AI expertise and AEG’s deep, decades-long foothold in delivering mission-critical banking solutions.
Why This Partnership Matters
Financial institutions across the MEA region face two hard realities: regulatory demands are escalating, and compliance teams are struggling under mounting alert volumes, growing sanctions lists, and an explosion in cross-border transactions. The human-heavy approach to sanctions review and payments filtering simply doesn’t scale anymore.
WorkFusion and AEG see the same pain point: too many false positives, too many manual reviews, and too much operational drag on compliance teams that need both accuracy and speed.
AEG’s CEO, Dr. Mohamed Sadek, framed the challenge clearly:
“WorkFusion’s solutions align perfectly with the needs of our banking customers, who are looking for highly accurate, scalable, and field-proven technologies to reduce false positives and improve compliance operations.”
In many banks across the region, sanctions and PEP alerts routinely generate false-positive rates above 90%. That number isn’t just inefficient—it’s expensive, especially with growing staffing requirements and the heightened regulatory scrutiny observed worldwide. WorkFusion’s AI agents target that operational strain head-on.
AEG’s Regional Reach Gives WorkFusion a Strategic Lift
AEG is far from a new entrant. The company has more than 40 years of experience implementing and supporting solutions tied to:
- Sanctions and AML screening
- Payments platforms
- SWIFT operations
- Core banking integrations
- Mission-critical back-office systems
This gives AEG unique proximity to the daily compliance bottlenecks banks face. Their role as a trusted partner also provides easier market entry for emerging technologies—especially AI—to land in environments where data privacy, explainability, and regulatory approval are constant concerns.
WorkFusion VP Rob Minaglia underscored that alignment:
“AEG’s technical expertise and regional reach make them an ideal partner to scale AI Agents for FCC/AML across new markets. Their customers are actively seeking AI tools which deliver real impact while improving risk management.”
With the partnership, WorkFusion gains distribution and credibility in a region where digitally modernized banks are accelerating adoption of automation and AI—but remain cautious about unvalidated vendors.
Inside WorkFusion’s AI Agents: FCC Automation That Mimics Expert Analysts
WorkFusion isn’t just selling a toolset; it’s selling AI agents with specialized roles, each trained on years of historical review logic to make decisions at scale.
Evelyn — Sanctions & PEP Review
Evelyn triages false positives in sanctions and politically exposed person alerts. The AI evaluates context, name variations, geography, and entity relationships—tasks usually performed by junior analysts.
Tara — Payments Screening
Tara automates real-time entity recognition to help banks accelerate payments decisioning without compromising accuracy or compliance posture.
Evan — Adverse Media Review
Evan scours and evaluates media hits to identify reputational and financial crime risks tied to individuals or entities.
These three agents handle the first-line screening decisions that represent the majority of all alert workloads in FCC operations. But WorkFusion also offers deeper investigative AI agents—Edward (EDD), Isaac (AML), and Kayla (pKYC)—designed to augment more sophisticated second-line functions.
Collectively, the goal is clear: shift repetitive tasks to AI while allowing human analysts to focus on higher-risk, high-judgment cases.
Addressing the Region’s Most Urgent Compliance Pressures
Banks in the Middle East and Africa are operating in an environment where sanctions lists are evolving faster than ever, de-risking mandates are tightening, and cross-border trade continues to expand.
This puts two types of pressure on institutions:
- Operational pressure — exploding alert volumes
- Regulatory pressure — rising expectations for speed and accuracy
AEG’s statement captured this reality:
“AEG understands the operational pressures banks face and the urgent need for automation that does not compromise accuracy or regulatory integrity.”
WorkFusion’s pitch is that its agents are “trained” with up to five years of experience out of the box, giving them a head start in understanding typical risk patterns and review behaviors without requiring months of training or historical data ingestion.
For banks looking to scale compliance efficiently—or to avoid hiring dozens of new analysts—the proposition is compelling.
The Broader Trend: Agentic AI Is Redefining FCC
WorkFusion’s model aligns with a broader industry movement toward agentic AI, where specialized autonomous systems perform targeted tasks without requiring constant configuration. FCC, perhaps more than any other banking function, is primed for this transition. The work is rules-based yet context-dependent, repetitive yet high stakes—an ideal fit for supervised and context-aware AI automation.
And with regulators increasingly open to explainable AI frameworks, adoption barriers are falling.
AEG’s partnership may accelerate the shift in a region where many banks are upgrading legacy screening systems and moving toward hybrid human-AI compliance strategies.
A Growing Market for Intelligent Compliance Automation
With this partnership, WorkFusion has gained a strategic reseller covering dozens of countries across MEA and Europe. Banks in these markets are rapidly modernizing their payments and sanctions infrastructure—and are hungry for tools that boost accuracy without ballooning headcount.
The timing couldn’t be better. Compliance teams are overstretched. Regulatory expectations are rising. AI is no longer optional.
WorkFusion and AEG are betting that FCC automation—done well and delivered through trusted regional partners—will become the new standard for how banks handle risk.
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