The 2026 Financial Crime Benchmarking Survey & Report

Financial Crime: Betting on tech

Financial crime functions are approaching an inflection point driven by three forces at once: technology that can now do a meaningful share of routine review, regulation that continues to add obligations faster than it removes them, and a cost sustainability agenda that no longer tolerates the headcount-led growth of the past two decades. The 2026 Financial Crime Benchmarking Survey & Report was designed to measure where that inflection sits: how large internationally supervised wholesale financial crime functions are staffed, funded, tooled and measured today, what they intend to change over the next twelve months and beyond, and what stands in the way. The report sections will cover i: people and operating model; ii: budget, resourcing, investment and effectiveness iii: technology, iv: operational efficiency and v: regulation and intelligence in financial crime prevention.

Some key takeaways:

92% of banks name data constraints and 85% legacy integration among their top AI barriers; 77% name both
62% identify data fragmentation or linkage across silos as the single-most hindering data issue
84% describe SAR feedback as limited or ineffective, and only a handful of banks find public-private data sharing highly effective

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