Peter Cousins — Fighting Financial Crime at Scale with Trustworthy, Explainable AI

Peter Cousins is the CTO at WorkFusion, leading the company’s next phase of product innovation and growth. He previously held CTO roles at Bottomline Technologies, focusing on digital banking and intelligent processing, at Operative, a provider of cloud-native SaaS for media advertising, and at IBM, where he led the Enterprise Marketing Management technology group. Peter Cousins LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petercousins/ Website: https://www.workfusion.com/ Flor Laorga LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flor-laorga/ X: https://x.com/florlaorga Website: https://aifn.co/flor AI Frontier Network Website: https://aifn.co LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-frontier-network/ X: https://x.com/aifn_co YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ai-frontier-network OUTLINE 00:00 Start 00:39 Peter Cousins’ Career and Role at WorkFusion 02:48 What Makes AI Agents Powerful 04:05 How AI Agents Help Prevent Financial Crime 05:09 Sanctions, Screening, and Adverse Media Use Cases 08:38 Leading AI in High-Trust Industries 11:11 The Importance of Human-in-the-Loop Systems 18:06 Future of AI and Essential Human Qualities