Growth investment will accelerate AI-powered testing, scale global operations, and extend AMLA’s proprietary data to tier-one banks and regulators worldwide
LONDON and MIAMI, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AML Analytics (“AMLA” or the “Company”), the global authority in independent testing, validation, and risk analytics for financial crime defenses, today announced a significant growth investment from Covalent Equity Partners (“Covalent”), a private equity firm purpose-built to accelerate market-leading technology platforms in the AI era.
Founded in 2010, AML Analytics is trusted by more than 50 supervisory authorities and over 1,450 financial institutions across nearly 60 countries. Having independently evaluated thousands of financial crime systems and architectures, AMLA’s platform provides regulators and global institutions with empirical ground truth to measure, tune, and verify AML systems. Autonomous agentic finance and generative technologies are rapidly widening the attack surface for illicit finance, and AMLA’s authoritative reference datasets and independent benchmarks are essential to the integrity of the global market.
Covalent’s capital and operational partnership will accelerate AMLA’s engineering roadmap, introduce next-generation testing engines, and expand the Company’s global footprint. Justin Holder will continue to lead the business as Founder and Group CEO alongside the existing leadership team.
“From day one, our mission has been to give the defenders of the financial system the empirical tools to stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated threats. Covalent shares our conviction and brings deep sector and operational expertise, which will help us scale that mission to more institutions and regulators worldwide,” said Justin Holder, Founder and Group CEO of AML Analytics.
“Justin and his entrepreneurial team have built an essential institution trusted by central banks and global tier-one institutions alike. We look forward to supporting AMLA in scaling their platform and safeguarding the financial system in the age of agentic finance,” said John Woyton, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Covalent Equity Partners. “AMLA represents exactly what Covalent was created to back: a mission-critical platform with a strong data moat, made even stronger by AI.”
“AI is supercharging the growth of financial crime’s surface area, outpacing the defenses built to contain it,” said Quinlan Fang, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Covalent Equity Partners. “AMLA’s 15+ years of independent fieldwork have produced a proprietary dataset and earned the trust of regulators and financial institutions worldwide. That combination is rare, and it is the foundation for the solutions AMLA is building to define the next era of defending the global financial system.”
