Datos Insights today announced the winners and silver medalists of its 2026 Impact Awards in Fraud & AML. The awards recognize organizations across 14 categories whose innovations are transforming how financial institutions detect, prevent, and combat fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes.

The financial crime landscape continues to evolve as fraudsters and other bad actors employ increasingly sophisticated techniques to exploit institutional vulnerabilities. Traditional approaches to AML and fraud prevention are becoming insufficient to keep pace with these threats. FIs face mounting pressure to enhance detection and prevention capabilities while improving operational efficiency and customer experience. In response, technology providers and financial institutions are launching advanced tools and capabilities that leverage data analytics, machine learning, and AI to streamline processes, reduce false positives, uncover hidden risks, and provide more complete risk assessments.

“Financial crime is evolving faster than ever, and effective defense requires speed, precision, and institutional alignment,” said Chuck Subrt, Practice Director, Fraud & AML at Datos Insights. “This year’s Datos Insights’ Impact Awards in Fraud & AML celebrate innovations that deliver on all three—solutions powered by AI and real-time decisioning that lower false positives while also reducing risk, integrate disparate data sources, and deliver compliance teams with the intelligence they need to keep pace with threat actors.”

As financial crimes grow more sophisticated and regulatory scrutiny intensifies, the need for innovative solutions has never been greater. Award recipients and their innovations address today’s financial crime challenges, leveraging advanced technologies such as AI, machine learning, and data analytics to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of industry fraud and financial crime efforts.

2026 Fraud & AML Impact Award Winners

For full category descriptions, visit the Datos Impact Awards in Fraud & AML page.

Fraud Prevention Innovation Awards

Best Authentication Innovation

• Winner: Experian

• Silver Medalist: BioCatch

Best Transaction Fraud Monitoring and Decisioning Innovation

• Winner: Casap

• Silver Medalists (tie): Oscilar, Pipl

Best Scam & APP Fraud Prevention Innovation

• Winner: Darwinium

• Silver Medalists (tie): Charm Security, Sardine

Best Identity Risk Intelligence Innovation

• Winner: Plaid

• Silver Medalist: Prove

AML Innovation Awards

Best Know Your Customer/Business (KYC/KYB) Innovation

• Winner: Shufti

• Silver Medalist: smartKYC

Best AML Transaction Monitoring Innovation

• Winner: Oscilar

• Silver Medalist: Tookitaki

• Honorable mention: Napier AI

Best Sanctions & Watchlist Screening Innovation

• Winner: MOZN

• Silver Medalists (tie): Hawk, Semantic Visions

Best Financial Crime Regulatory Technology (RegTech) Innovation

• Winner: Hummingbird

• Silver Medalists (tie): Kharon, Shufti

Best Crypto/Digital Asset AML Innovation

• Winner: Unit21

• Silver Medalist: FinScan, an Innovative Systems Solution

Financial Crime Convergence Innovation Awards

Best Fraud or AML Innovation by a Financial Institution

• Winner: National Australia Bank

• Silver Medalist: Standard Chartered Bank

Best Joint Fraud & AML Transaction Monitoring Innovation

• Winner: DataVisor

• Silver Medalist: Sardine

Best AI-Driven Innovation Across Fraud & AML

• Winner: Incode

• Silver Medalist: Unit21

Best Consortium & Intelligence Sharing Innovation

• Winner: Sardine

• Silver Medalists (tie): Mastercard & Feedzai, NICE Actimize

Best Financial Crime Investigation and Reporting Innovation

• Winner: Moody’s

• Silver Medalist: ThetaRay

Selection Process and Criteria

A panel of fraud and AML industry experts and Datos Insights’ strategic advisors selected winners based on comprehensive evaluation criteria, including:

• Level of innovation and competitive differentiation

• Market needs assessment and solution fit

• Financial risk mitigation capabilities (identification, prevention, and detection)

• Tangible business impact (customer experience, operational efficiency, integration ease, scalability)

• Future product roadmap and sustainability

About the Impact Awards Program

All nominated innovations were required to be in production and developed within the past two years (after January 1, 2024). The program is open to vendors, financial institutions, and fintech firms of all sizes and locations worldwide. The identification of award winners and silver medalists is not an endorsement by Datos Insights of any vendor, product, or service.

About Datos Insights

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