2026 IMPACT AWARDS

Fraud & AML

The winners of Datos Insights’ Impact Awards in Fraud & AML are leading the industry and pioneering new and disruptive financial crime products and capabilities. Their innovations are bringing the financial services industry one step closer to triumphing in the fight against fraud, money laundering, and other illicit activity.

The 2026 Datos Impact Awards in Fraud & AML Are Now Open!

Submissions Must be received by may 1, 2026

Fraud & AML Impact Awards Details

The categories for consideration under the Impact Awards in Fraud & AML program are:

Fraud Prevention
Innovation Awards

  • Best Authentication Innovation
  • Best Transaction Fraud Monitoring and Decisioning Innovation
  • Best Scam/APP Fraud Prevention Innovation
  • Best Insider Threat Innovation
  • Best Identity Risk Intelligence Innovation

AML
Innovation Awards

  • Best Know Your Customer/Business (KYC/KYB) Innovation
  • Best AML Transaction Monitoring Innovation
  • Best Sanction/Watchlist Screening Innovation
  • Best Financial Crime Regulatory Technology (RegTech) Innovation
  • Best Crypto/Digital Asset AML Innovation

Financial Crime Convergence
Innovation Awards

  • Best Fraud or AML Innovation by a Financial Institution
  • Best Joint Fraud & AML Innovation
  • Best AI-Driven Innovation across Fraud & AML
  • Best Consortium & Intelligence Sharing Innovation
  • Best Financial Crime Investigation and Reporting Innovation
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Category Descriptions

  1. Best Authentication Innovation: New solutions or innovations that advance user authentication through continuous behavioral monitoring, device intelligence, biometric verification, and passkey adoption, as well as emerging frameworks for authenticating AI agents acting on behalf of users.
  2. Best Transaction Fraud Monitoring and Decisioning Innovation: New solutions or innovations that elevate transaction-level fraud analytics, real-time monitoring, detection accuracy, and case management to protect financial transactions against a range of third- and first-party fraud attack types.
  3. Best Scam & Authorized Push Payment (APP) Fraud Prevention Innovation: New solutions or innovations that deliver leading detection and prevention of scam fraud — including APP fraud, romance scams, investment fraud, tech support schemes, and AI-enhanced social engineering attacks — on both the sending and receiving sides of transactions.
  4. Best Insider Threat Innovation: New solutions or innovations that strengthen an institution’s ability to detect and prevent insider fraud, including threats from malicious employees, coerced insiders, and the emerging challenge of synthetic remote employees who use fabricated credentials and AI-generated professional histories to infiltrate financial institutions.
  5. Best Identity Risk Intelligence Innovation: New solutions or innovations that advance the collection, synthesis, and application of identity risk signals across the customer life cycle, enabling more accurate third- and first-party fraud detection, fewer false positives, and stronger protection for legitimate customers.
  1. Best Know Your Customer/Business (KYC/KYB) Innovation: New solutions, innovations, or datasets that streamline and enrich KYC and KYB processes across customer onboarding, servicing, and ongoing risk-based due diligence.
  2. Best AML Transaction Monitoring Innovation: New solutions, innovations, or datasets that elevate risk-based AML transaction monitoring to detect suspicious or unusual activity indicative of money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions evasion, or other illicit financial activity.
  3. Best Sanctions & Watchlist Screening Innovation: New solutions, innovations, or datasets that optimize risk-based screening of individuals, entities, and transactions against sanctions lists, Politically Exposed Person registries, adverse media sources, and other risk-relevant watchlists.
  4. Best Financial Crime Regulatory Technology (RegTech) Innovation: New solutions, innovations, or datasets that help financial institutions satisfy regulatory requirements more effectively and efficiently. Innovations may address the challenges of regulatory change management, automated compliance testing, model risk governance, examination readiness, or the translation of evolving regulatory guidance into actionable institutional programs.
  5. Best Crypto/Digital Asset AML Innovation: New solutions, innovations, or datasets that advance financial crime risk management across cryptocurrency, stablecoin, and broader digital asset environments.
  1. Best Fraud or AML Innovation by a Financial Institution: New fraud or AML solutions developed and implemented by a financial institution that deliver robust financial crime mitigation while supporting elevated customer experience and operational efficiency.
  2. Best Joint Fraud & AML Innovation: New solutions or innovations implemented that materially advance collaboration between fraud and AML functions through optimized data sharing, unified case management, integrated detection, or coordinated investigation workflows.
  3. Best AI-Driven Innovation across Fraud & AML: New solutions or innovations that harness artificial intelligence — including machine learning, generative AI, large language models, or agentic AI — to materially advance fraud prevention or AML outcomes. Innovations must demonstrate responsible AI deployment with measurable performance improvements, explainability appropriate to the regulatory context, and tangible operational impact.
  4. Best Consortium & Intelligence Sharing Innovation: New solutions, platforms, or frameworks implemented that advance cross-institutional data sharing, collaborative threat intelligence, or network-based financial crime detection across the fraud and AML ecosystem.
  5. Best Financial Crime Investigation and Reporting Innovation: New solutions, innovations, or datasets that modernize financial crime operations through enhanced alert investigation, case management, suspicious activity documentation, and regulatory reporting. Innovations should enable analysts and investigators to redirect capacity toward complex, high-risk case analysis and strategic risk management.
“Today sustaining robust financial crime risk management is more challenging than ever. Datos Insights’ Impact Awards in Fraud & AML identifies and celebrates those innovations across our industry that are disrupting the efforts of fraudsters, money launderers, and terrorists.”
Chuck Subrt
Practice Director, Fraud & AML, Datos Insights

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