Sardine Named a Leader in Financial Crime Management

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Sardine, the leading agentic risk platform to fight financial crime, today announced that it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Financial Crime Management Solutions, Q3 2026.

Financial crime is increasingly connected. Fraud, identity, AML, scams, mule activity, account takeover, payment risk, and merchant risk often appear as parts of the same behavior, while many organizations still manage them across separate systems, data, and teams.

Sardine was built around a more connected approach. Its platform brings together identity, device, behavioral, transaction, and network intelligence across fraud and AML, with AI agents working across that foundation to investigate patterns, surface anomalies, improve controls, and automate repetitive operational work.

Forrester's evaluation gave Sardine the highest possible scores in criteria including rules-based risk scoring, transaction type support, queue and case management, and regulatory and operational reporting, and notes that, "Sardine's rules-based risk scoring is remarkable."

"Fraud and AML teams are fighting the same underlying fincrime networks, but historically they have been asked to do it with fragmented data, tools, and workflows," said Soups Ranjan, CEO and Co-Founder of Sardine. "We believe the next generation of financial crime management brings that intelligence together and gives investigators AI agents that can automate repetitive work around sanctions and transaction monitoring reviews. Those same agents can also act as highly intelligent copilots, helping investigators uncover fraud rings by writing SQL queries and doing deep data science work. Humans can stay focused on the decisions that require judgment, context, and accountability. We are proud to see Sardine recognized as a Leader by Forrester."

Sardine's agentic risk platform is designed to give fraud and AML teams a shared foundation for detecting risk, investigating activity, and managing financial crime operations. AI agents can work across that intelligence to support investigations, identify anomalies and connections, improve controls, and reduce repetitive operational work.

To access The Forrester Wave™: Financial Crime Management Solutions, Q3 2026 and learn more about Sardine's approach to financial crime management, visit www.sardine.ai/whitepapers/the-forrester-wave-tm-financial-crime-management-solutions-q3-2026.

About Sardine

Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated fraud and AML solutions unify data across risk teams, enabling real-time fraud detection and automated compliance operations. More than 450 global enterprises rely on Sardine to secure and grow their products, including category leaders across banking, fintech, wealth and retirement, HR and payroll, payments, and software. Customers include FIS, Experian, National Bank of Canada, Nubank, GoDaddy, Deel, Gusto, Paylocity, Xero, and ZoomInfo. Learn more at sardine.ai.

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The Forrester Wave™: Financial Crime Management Solutions, Q3 2026, Forrester Research, Inc., August 20, 2026.

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