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      <title>How I Built a Fintech AI Agent That Detects Fraud and Generates AML Risk Reports — With Zero Hallucinations</title>
      <dc:creator>vijaya kumari</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 01:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/vijaya_kumari_ed7a2c37a7e/how-i-built-a-fintech-ai-agent-that-detects-fraud-and-generates-aml-risk-reports-with-zero-4p1l</link>
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      <description>&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  The Problem
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;AI in fintech cannot hallucinate.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A fabricated regulation reference = legal liability.&lt;br&gt;
A missed fraud pattern = financial crime.&lt;br&gt;
A wrong compliance answer = regulatory penalty.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Yet most AI demos ship without any eval layer.&lt;br&gt;
I built one.&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  What I Built
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A 4-tab Fintech AI Agent deployed on HuggingFace:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tab 1 — Fraud Detector&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Analyzes transactions for fraud patterns.&lt;br&gt;
Returns: risk score (0-10), red flags, &lt;br&gt;
approve/review/reject recommendation.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Test input:&lt;br&gt;
"Transfer $9,800 to Cayman Islands &lt;br&gt;
at 3:47am from unrecognized device"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Result: 9/10 HIGH RISK → REJECT&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Red flags caught:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Amount just below $10K CTR threshold (structuring)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;High-risk jurisdiction (Cayman Islands)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Unusual transaction time (3:47am)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;New unrecognized device&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tab 2 — Compliance Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
RAG over hardcoded financial regulations:&lt;br&gt;
KYC, AML, GDPR, SOX, PCI-DSS&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every answer:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cites specific regulation + section&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shows confidence score&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Flags hallucination risk&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tab 3 — AML Risk Report Generator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Generates formal 6-section risk assessments:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Customer Risk Profile&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Transaction Pattern Analysis&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Red Flags Identified&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Regulatory Considerations&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Recommended Actions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Compliance Officer Notes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tab 4 — Eval Dashboard&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Real-time metrics across all tabs:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Total queries processed&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Avg quality score&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hallucinations flagged&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Risk alerts triggered&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;


&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  The Eval Layer
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Every Claude output is scored for:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class="highlight js-code-highlight"&gt;
&lt;pre class="highlight python"&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;
  &lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;faithfulness_score&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mf"&gt;0.95&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
  &lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;confidence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mf"&gt;0.85&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;
  &lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;hallucination_risk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="p"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="s"&gt;LOW&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="sh"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="p"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;p&gt;This is the LLM-as-Judge pattern —&lt;br&gt;
Claude evaluating Claude's own outputs.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Results from first run:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;98% avg quality score&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;0 hallucinations detected&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Faithfulness: 95-100% per tab&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;




&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Tech Stack
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Claude (claude-sonnet-4-20250514)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pinecone (vector store + semantic dedup)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;LangSmith (production tracing)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;TruLens (eval monitoring dashboard)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gradio (HF Space UI)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;




&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Live Demo
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;huggingface.co/spaces/Vijayarv07/fintech-ai-agent&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;GitHub:&lt;br&gt;
github.com/vijayarjun7&lt;/p&gt;




&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  What's Next
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Adding quantum-inspired compression to the &lt;br&gt;
inference layer (QuantRot-PQC research).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Because reliable AI + efficient AI = &lt;br&gt;
production-ready AI.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h1&gt;
  
  
  BuildInPublic
&lt;/h1&gt;

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