Unit21 Named Category Leader in Chartis 2026 RiskTech Quadrants® for Enterprise and Payment Fraud Solutions

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 2026--

Unit21, the leading AI Risk Infrastructure platform for fraud prevention and AML monitoring, today announced it has been named a Category Leader in Chartis 2026 RiskTech Quadrants® for Enterprise Fraud Solutions and Payment Fraud Solutions. Across the evaluation, Unit21 received the highest score across all vendors evaluated for AI functionality—formal validation of the company’s strategic emphasis on agentic AI as the underlying infrastructure of fraud and AML operations, not as an experimental add-on.

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Chartis evaluates vendors on a 1–5 scale, where scores between 4.1 and 5.0 represent best-in-class capabilities and scores between 3.1 and 4.0 represent advanced capabilities. Unit21 earned best-in-class scores in five categories, including a 4.4 in Configurability and a 4.3 in AI functionality, placing the company at the front of a market that Chartis describes as undergoing a fundamental shift toward unified, AI-first fraud prevention platforms.

"Unit21 sits at the front of a market shift Chartis is seeing, where AI is not simply a feature but a structural market driver,” said Philip Mackenzie, Senior Research Principal at Chartis Research. “The combination of best-in-class AI capabilities, configurability, and workflow orchestration alongside its consortium and graph analytics places Unit21 as a Category Leader and among the vendors best positioned to define the next generation of enterprise fraud prevention."

Best-in-class scores across the capabilities that matter most

Chartis awarded Unit21 best-in-class scores in five evaluation categories spanning the three quadrants making up the 2026 RiskTech Quadrants® for Enterprise and Payment Fraud Solutions:

Unit21 was also recognized for advanced capability scores across behavioral monitoring (3.9), mule detection (3.8), ACH fraud (3.8), fraud and analytical models (4.0), and integrations (4.0), reinforcing the breadth of the platform across fraud typologies and payment rails.

“Chartis’ recognition validates what our customers have been telling us: fraud is now an enterprise problem, and the teams winning are the ones who replaced rigid, single-purpose tools with a unified, AI infrastructure,” said Tyler Allen, Chief Executive Officer at Unit21. “Category Leader placement across both Enterprise and Payment Fraud quadrants is a strong external signal for institutions evaluating their next move, especially those AML customers we’re partnering with to consolidate fraud and compliance onto a single platform.”

Validation of an agentic AI strategy

Chartis’ 2026 update calls out AI as a structural market driver, not a feature. Vendors are being evaluated on how effectively they operationalize, govern, and adapt AI, not simply whether they offer it. Unit21’s top score reflects the company’s strategic conviction that AI Agents must execute the work, prove every decision, and stay defensible to regulators.

"We built AI that does the job, not AI that talks about doing the job," said Kunal Datta, Chief Product Officer at Unit21. "Our AI Agents handle alert triage autonomously at production scale, but they also recommend detection rules, surface control gaps, and help teams rethink their strategy. And the whole thing is configurable: customers build their own agents within Unit21, with full testing, auditability, and data lineage baked in. That's the difference between an AI feature and an AI platform. Chartis' ranking reflects that bet. The future of financial crime prevention isn't a black box you hope works, or a constant back and forth with engineering teams. It's an agentic platform where the practitioners stay in control of every decision."

Today, Unit21’s AI Agents process more than 200,000 alerts per month across customers, including Green Dot, Circle, and Crypto.com. The AI Risk Infrastructure unifies fraud and AML so teams can scale safely without expanding headcount. Unit21 also operates one of the largest cross-institution, cross-rail, cross-typology fraud consortiums in the market, with more than 100 participating financial institutions and coverage of over 100 million U.S. adults providing network-level mule and money laundering signals that strengthen detection for every customer.

Read Chartis’ vendor spotlight of Unit21

Chartis published a dedicated vendor spotlight on Unit21’s positioning, scores, and capabilities across all three quadrants. Download the full spotlight to see Chartis’ analysis of Unit21’s fraud capabilities.

To see Unit21’s AI Agents and unified fraud + AML platform in action, request a demo.

About Unit21

Unit21 is the leader in AI Risk Infrastructure, trusted by over 200 customers across 90 countries, including Sallie Mae, Chime, Intuit, and Green Dot. The platform unifies fraud and AML detection, investigation, and regulatory filing with AI agents that execute investigations end-to-end, gathering evidence, drafting narratives, and filing reports so teams can scale safely without expanding headcount. Unit21’s AI agents process 200,000+ alerts per month, and its Fraud Consortium covers 100M+ U.S. consumers across a network of financial institutions, fintechs, and crypto platforms. Every AI decision is explainable, auditable, and defensible to regulators. Unit21 is backed by Tiger Global Management, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused venture fund), ICONIQ Capital, and others. Learn more at unit21.ai.

Unit21 Named Category Leader in Chartis 2026 RiskTech Quadrants® for Payment Fraud Solutions.

Unit21 Named Category Leader in Chartis 2026 RiskTech Quadrants® for Enterprise Fraud Solutions.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A former Polish justice minister sought in his homeland for alleged abuse of power says he has traveled from Hungary to the U.S., prompting prosecutors in Poland to say Monday that they're investigating whether he was assisted in evading liability.

Zbigniew Ziobro was a key figure in the government led by the nationalist conservative Law and Justice party that ran Poland between 2015 and 2023. That administration established political control over key judicial institutions by stacking higher courts with friendly judges and punishing its critics with disciplinary action or assignments to faraway locations.

Ziobro announced in January that he had been granted asylum in Hungary, then led by nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

On Sunday, Ziobro told right-wing Polish broadcaster Republika that he had arrived in the United States the previous day — coinciding with the inauguration in Budapest of Orbán's successor, Péter Magyar, who defeated the longtime leader in an election last month. He said that he was using a document granted to him along with his right to asylum, Polish news agency PAP reported.

Current Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government came to power in late 2023 with ambitions to roll back the judicial changes made by its predecessor, but efforts to undo them have been blocked by two successive presidents aligned with the nationalist right.

In October, prosecutors requested the lifting of Ziobro’s parliamentary immunity to press charges against him. They allege among other things that Ziobro misused a fund for victims of violence, including for the purchase of Israeli Pegasus surveillance software.

Tusk’s party says Law and Justice used Pegasus to spy illegally on political opponents while in power. Ziobro says he acted lawfully.

On Monday, the national prosecutor's office said in a social media post that it was investigating the whereabouts of Ziobro, and looking into whether other individuals assisted him in "fleeing and evading criminal liability, thereby obstructing the investigation into the justice fund."

Current Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said in a post on X Sunday evening that Poland had invalidated Ziobro's travel documents, including his diplomatic passport, and that Warsaw will ask the U.S. and Hungary about the legal basis for Ziobro to leave Hungarian territory and enter the United States.

Ziobro's travels raise the possibility of tension between Warsaw and Washington.

Polish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maciej Wewiór told The Associated Press that “we don’t want this issue to become political."

“Our relationship with the U.S. goes much deeper than what happens with Ziobro," he said. "But we do want our citizen to eventually return to Poland and face justice.”

FILE - Former Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro speaks to reporters alongside in Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)