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In the banking sector, supervisory organizations create and oversee the compliance rules that banks and other financial organizations need to follow. These compliance regulations are important for companies to carefully abide by, since non-compliance can potentially result in large fines or in extreme cases, even loss of banking licenses. 

There's an entire artificial intelligence ecosystem for enterprise search. Most of this is in a purely digital world. Most vendors help with a layer of AI-enabled search that understands terms or phrases and is able to return the results or answers to questions that someone types in. But the problem is compounded when it comes to searching the physical world.

Large banks deal with millions of documents every day across their corporate offices and numerous branches. Although one might assume that these documents are digital, in many cases, even the largest banks store old physical documents in file cabinets and boxes off the bank’s premises, and even those that are kept on-site might be relegated to storage units amongst hundreds of thousands of other documents.

Since the early 2010s, major banks have used anomaly detection - an AI technique for identifying deviations from a norm - for automating fraud, cybersecurity, and anti-money laundering processes.

In recent years, the demand for greater cybersecurity has risen even among the everyday citizen. This is especially true for one’s personal and financial information, which fraudsters are constantly finding new methods of breaching accounts to find. This need for security has also risen in insurance, and numerous AI firms are selling claims fraud detection solutions to the insurance sector.