FinCrime Frontier 2026–27 Findings: What’s Changing, What’s Working, What’s Next

A conversation between SymphonyAI and AML Intelligence to understand the report findings

Now in its second year, the FinCrime Frontier report provides a view of how financial crime compliance is evolving — what has changed over the past year, where institutions are making progress, and where significant challenges remain.

Based on insights from more than 200 financial crime and compliance leaders, the 2026–27 research examines an industry navigating growing regulatory expectations, accelerating investment in AI and automation, and increasing pressure to demonstrate that financial crime programs are delivering meaningful outcomes.

The webinar discussion examines some of the most prominent themes emerging from this year’s research, including:

What you'll learn

• The changing regulatory landscape and how regulatory priorities are influencing financial crime transformation and technology decisions.
• Financial  crime effectiveness and operational performance, including alert management, investigations, false positives and the continuing challenge of resource-intensive processes
• The shift from AI experimentation to execution, and what is needed to move successful use cases beyond pilots and into financial crime operations at scale
• Data governance, and explainability as increasingly important foundations for responsible AI adoption and regulatory confidence.
• The evolution toward more continuous, adaptive compliance, as institutions consider how monitoring and controls can respond more dynamically to changing risk.
• The future financial crime operating model, including the emerging role of agentic AI, changing human and technology responsibilities, and where institutions expect automation to have the greatest impact.

Watch the webinar to understand how financial crime compliance is changing, what that evolution means for financial crime leaders, and the considerations that should be shaping priorities for the year ahead.

Moderator

Paul O'Donoghue - Senior Correspondent, AML Intelligence

Speakers

Charmian Simmons - Principal Strategic Advisor for FinCrime Compliance, SymphonyAI

Stephen Rae - Co-Founder and Chair, AML Intelligence

Related resources

FinCrime Frontier 2026-27 Report

FinCrime Frontier 2025-27 Report

Agentic AI & Embedded Risk Intelligence: A Leader's Guide

Agentic AI in Financial Services: From Hype to Governance

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