It has been our pleasure to provide you, our readers, with helpful content as you learn about the many ways that AI Agents can help make financial crime compliance operations more effective, efficient, and lower risk. What were you and your peers reading the most this year? In case you missed a week, this post reviews our top four most popular blog posts from this past year.
#1: We started the year with people really wanting to learn more about the fundamentals of AI Agents for FinCrime compliance. We should have seen this coming, since the most popular post of 2024 was the final post—What are AI Agents for FinCrime Compliance?.
From the post, you learned the basics of agentic/autonomous AI and how AI Agents can make decisions, plan, and adapt to achieve predefined goals. It also discusses the multiple ways in which compliance teams benefit from AI Agents for FinCrime compliance when those agents are pre-built and proven to mitigate risk and enable operational scaling.
#2: It comes as no surprise that the 2nd most popular post of 2025 was January’s Key Benefits of AI Agents for Financial Crime Compliance. After all, once people learn what an AI Agent can do (at a high level), understanding the benefits is the next logical step in learning. The post describes how AI Agents use AI and human-in-the-loop collaboration to execute complex, multistep workflows across digital environments and apply reasoning as they do. It then delves into the details behind three main benefits delivered by AI Agents:
- Greater Consistency
- Strengthened Compliance
- Freed-up Staffing
#3: Transitioning to the 3rd most popular post, Financial Crime Developments, Resources and Stories: January 2025 Edition covered regulatory happenings as well as penalties levied against financial institutions for having lax financial crime compliance controls. It serves as a great way to indirectly recognize the value of having AI Agents. Coverage of fines ranging from $80 million levied on Block Inc. and $100 million on BitMex serve as powerful reminders of just how much money and brand damage financial institutions can save themselves by incorporating robust AI into their AML compliance operations.
#4: Coming in at #4 for the year was the post What Are AI Agents? Part 1: It Depends on Whom You Ask. This post proved itself to be the most popular summertime read of 2025. We suspect the reason behind this was the massive surge in AI Agent interest across all corners of the financial services sector as well as many other industry sectors. With that interest came a wide range of definitions for what AI Agents actually are and what exactly they can do. So, we published a three-part series that delves into the nuances behind the varying definitions. We also put a stake in the ground for a strict definition in financial crime compliance (from our point of view) to clarify what readers can expect of our AI Agents.
Part 2 and Part 3 in that series are progressively more detailed and slightly more technical for those of you who want to really dig into the topic. Part 3 also describes how regulators have not only grown to accept AI Agents, but are now informing compliance teams that they expect to see banks using technology that helps them keep pace with money launderers and other criminal actors who do damage to our financial system. In the end, the series has led to many of you requesting a demonstration of our AI Agents, something we are always happy to do.
What will be the most popular blog posts of 2026? We suspect they will be the posts that delve deeper into customer stories and how practitioners have operationalized their WorkFusion AI Agents to gain more efficiency, more consistency, and greater risk mitigation.
Have a happy holiday season!