FIS Emerald brings the financial services industry together once a year — and 2026 is no different. From May 4–7 in Orlando, thousands of banking and fintech leaders will gather to tackle modernization, compliance, and the next wave of AI-driven transformation.
FIS Emerald 2026 is the annual flagship conference hosted by FIS, bringing together executives, decision makers, and innovators from across the financial services ecosystem to discuss the latest developments in banking, payments, capital markets, and technology.
It's one of the most important gatherings in fintech — and Ashling Partners will be there.
If you're attending, come find us. We'd love to talk about what's actually working in financial services automation right now.
Ashling Partners are the AI and automation consultants built specifically for financial services. We work with banks and financial institutions on the compliance and risk challenges that keep operations teams up at night — and we bring a practitioner's perspective, not a vendor pitch.
Here's what you can expect to talk to us about at Emerald:
Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) Financial crime compliance costs the industry an estimated $250B annually — and 77% of that cost is people: analysts, investigators, and outsourced staff. We help institutions replace manual, high-volume review work with intelligent automation that improves accuracy, auditability, and throughput, while keeping humans focused on judgment calls that matter.
Know Your Customer & Onboarding KYC refresh and client onboarding are among the most labor-intensive processes in financial services. We automate the collection, verification, and monitoring of client identity and background information — reducing manual effort without introducing compliance risk.
Sanctions & Adverse Media Screening False positive rates in sanctions screening drain analyst capacity. We build intelligent first-pass review workflows for name screening, PEP checks, and adverse media monitoring that auto-adjudicate low-risk hits and surface the ones that actually need a human eye.
Transaction Monitoring & Fraud Alert Review We help investigation teams move faster with AI-assisted research, automated documentation, and resolution guidance that supports consistent, defensible decisions — at scale.
Why Agentic AI for Financial Services? Across all of these use cases, we design agentic AI solutions that improve data accuracy and auditability, reduce dependency on outsourced staff, enforce business rules consistently, and keep compliance processes always on. The goal is always the same: bring process knowledge in-house and make your team more capable, not just faster.
The following reflects the confirmed event format. A detailed session schedule will be published closer to the date.
Come find us on the exhibition floor. We're open to honest conversations about intelligent automation in financial services — where it delivers, where it doesn't, and what it takes to get there. Register for the event, or reach out in advance to set up a time.