The Agentic Bank

Sanctions Disposition Agent

⬡ Cerberus Clears or blocks sanctions name-match hits in real time.
◆ Supervised Specialist

Sits on the global payment rails and resolves fuzzy name matches against the sanctioned entity on date of birth, geography, and known aliases, releasing legitimate matches while holding genuine targets. The autonomy threshold is deliberately high, and true-match candidates gate on the oversight agent.

Memory

Working The hit, the matched list entry, the resolving evidence.
Episodic Prior dispositions for the same customer (good-guy lists).
Semantic Sanctions list structure, alias conventions, secondary-sanctions rules.
Store Vector store + immutable decision ledger

Orchestration

pipeline MCP

Harness · Managed Agents … sub-second session; deterministic tool calls; every decision is logged immutably.

Tools

{ } Sanctions list feeds (OFAC/UN/EU) API { } Payment system (hold/release) API Customer KYC profile Retrieval Escalation to sanctions oversight agent A2A

Evals & guardrails

  • Zero-tolerance: cannot auto-RELEASE a hit above a similarity/confidence band … escalates.
  • Daily replay against a labelled true-match set; any miss is a Sev-1.
  • Immutable decision ledger for regulatory exam.

Offline reflection

Consolidates confirmed false positives into a per-customer good-guy memory so the same legitimate person isn't re-flagged on every payment.

Frontier edge

  • Formal action-gating: a release is cryptographically signed and provably cannot fire above the configured similarity band, so the immutable ledger is a replayable proof for exam.
  • Confidential compute: name, DOB and alias matching runs inside a secure enclave (TEE), so PII in the screening path is never in clear, even to the operator.
  • Agent-mesh negotiation: settles holds and releases with the Payments agent over A2A, carrying an AP2-style mandate so the payment leg only moves on a signed disposition.

A sample run

Trigger Outbound wire flags a 78% name match to an SDN-listed individual.
  1. 1Compare DOB, nationality, address against the SDN entry.
  2. 2Find a prior cleared disposition for this customer 6 weeks ago.
  3. 3Confirm mismatch on DOB + country of residence.
Output Releases the wire with documented rationale; writes the customer to the good-guy list. True-match candidates instead hold + gate on the oversight agent with the comparison pre-built.

In numbers

210,000
Hits screened / day
96%
False-positive auto-release
< 2s
True-match escalation latency

Handoffs

Across ⇢ Operations → Payments for hold/release execution

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