Unit21

Artificial Intelligence (AI) risk infrastructure helping financial institutions prevent fraud in real time while unifying Anti-Money Laundering (AML) monitoring, investigations, and regulatory filing.
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What does Unit21 do?

Unit21 unifies fraud and AML on one platform. A real-time rules engine stops fraud as it happens, and AI agents investigate alerts and draft filings, so teams scale without added headcount.

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How does the integration between Unit21 and Alkami work?

Unit21 connects to Alkami’s digital banking platform via a real-time API, evaluating each transaction in session and returning pass, step-up authentication, or block in under 150 milliseconds.

Results that speak for themselves

Real results from financial institutions running Unit21 today

70%

reduction in fraud losses — Service Credit Union

50%+

reduction in false positives — Kinecta Federal Credit Union

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Key outcomes you can achieve with Unit21

Discover how Unit21's solutions empower financial institutions to achieve measurable outcomes and deliver lasting value.

Stop fraud in session

Real-time detection stops account takeovers and scams before funds move, inside the Alkami session.

Cut false positives fast

Detection precision improves so analysts spend time on real threats instead of chasing noise.

Ship rules the same day

Financial institution analysts build, validate, and publish detection rules in hours, without a vendor ticket.

Unify fraud and AML

Run detection, investigation, and FinCEN filing in one platform instead of three separate tools.

Stay exam-ready by design

Every alert and AI decision traces back to its evidence, keeping documentation audit-ready from day one.
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Frequently asked questions

Explore common questions about integrating Unit21.

Unit21 is AI risk infrastructure that unifies fraud detection, AML transaction monitoring, investigation, and regulatory filing on one platform.

Unit21 connects to Alkami via a real-time API. It evaluates digital banking transactions in session and returns a pass, step-up authentication, or block decision in under 150 milliseconds.

Yes. Unit21 combines real-time fraud detection with AML transaction monitoring, case management, customer risk rating, and direct e-filing to FinCEN in a single platform.

No. Unit21’s Investigation, Case, and SAR Agents automate evidence-gathering and narrative drafting, but every regulatory filing requires mandatory human review before submission.

Unit21 is built for fraud and BSA/AML teams at credit unions, community banks, and regional banks that already live on Alkami’s digital banking platform, typically institutions with $500M to $20B in assets.

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