What was done
National Bank of Canada ran a live evaluation of Sardine, which describes itself as an agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime, then signed a multi-year partnership. The bank will deploy Sardine's device intelligence and real-time risk scoring across its retail, commercial and wealth businesses to spot fraud while adding less friction for legitimate clients. The bank's venture arm also led a $25M extension of Sardine's Series C.
Outcome
Sardine's May 2026 press release says the live evaluation improved fraud detection and reduced false positives; it publishes no figures. The release covers the deployment plan, not post-rollout results.
Evidence: Vendor press release (customer quote). Figures are as reported by the source and have not been independently audited by AgentsNorth.
Prompt Reconstructed by AgentsNorth
The source didn't publish its prompt. This is our reconstruction of a starting prompt for a similar workflow, not the company's actual prompt.
You are a fraud operations assistant at a Canadian bank. For this flagged session, review the device signals, login history, payee changes and transaction details. Rate the risk as low, medium or high, list the specific signals behind that rating, and note anything that suggests a legitimate customer (known device, normal location, usual payee). Recommend one next step: allow, step-up verification or hold for review. Do not block or reverse anything; an analyst decides.