Datos Insights today announced the winners and runners-up of its 2025 Impact Awards in Fraud & AML. The awards recognize 22 organizations whose breakthrough innovations are transforming how financial institutions detect, prevent, and combat fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes.

The winners of our 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.

“Today sustaining robust financial crime risk management is more challenging than ever,” said Chuck Subrt, Practice Director, Fraud & AML at Datos Insights. “Our Impact Awards in Fraud & AML identifies and celebrates those innovations across the industry that are disrupting the efforts of fraudsters, money launderers, and terrorists.”

As financial crimes become increasingly sophisticated and regulatory scrutiny intensifies, the need for innovative solutions has never been greater. Award recipients demonstrate how cutting-edge technology can enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of fraud prevention and AML compliance while improving customer experience and operational efficiency.

2025 Fraud & AML Impact Award Winners

Fraud Innovation Awards

Best Authentication Innovation

• Winner: Entersekt
• Runner-up: Transmit Security

Best First-Party Fraud Innovation

• Winner: Socure
• Runner-up: Experian

Best Transaction Fraud Monitoring and Decisioning Innovation

• Winner: DataVisor
• Runner-up: Featurespace

Best Digital Identity Verification Innovation

• Winner: Socure
• Runner-up: Mitek Systems

Best Scam/APP Fraud Prevention Innovation

• Winner: BioCatch
• Runner-up: FICO/Jersey Telecom

AML Innovation Awards

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

• Winners (Tie): Alloy and CleverChain

Best AML Transaction Monitoring Innovation

• Winner: DataVisor
• Runners-up (Tie): Lucinity and Hawk

Best Sanction/Watchlist Screening Innovation

• Winner: Fincom
• Runners-up (Tie): FinScan (Innovation Systems) and Workfusion

Best Financial Crime Investigation and Reporting Innovation

• Winner: Fivecast
• Runner-up: Moody’s

Best Joint AML and Fraud Transaction Monitoring Innovation

• Winner: Oscilar
• Runner-up: Feedzai/Jack Henry

Financial Institution Innovation Award

Best Fraud or AML Innovation by a Financial Institution

• Winner: Garanti BBVA
• Runner-up: PNC Bank

Selection Process and Criteria
Winners were selected by a panel of fraud and AML industry experts and our strategic advisors 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

“The financial crime landscape continues to evolve rapidly, with criminals employing increasingly sophisticated techniques to evade detection. Traditional approaches to fraud prevention and AML compliance are often insufficient to keep pace with these evolving threats,” said Subrt. “In response to these challenges, the industry is seeking innovative tools and solutions that can streamline processes, reduce false positives, uncover hidden risks, and provide more comprehensive and accurate risk coverage.”

About the Impact Awards Program

All nominated innovations were required to be in production and developed within the past two years (after January 1, 2023). The program is open to vendors, financial institutions, and fintech firms of all sizes and locations worldwide. The identification of award winners and runners-up is not an endorsement by Datos Insights of any vendor, product, or service.

About Datos Insights

Datos Insights is the leading research and advisory partner to the banking, insurance, and security and investments industries—both the financial services firms and the technology providers who serve them. In an era of rapid change, we empower firms across the financial services ecosystem to make high-stakes decisions with confidence and speed. Our distinctive combination of proprietary data, analytics, and deep practitioner expertise provides actionable insights that enable clients to accelerate critical initiatives, inspire decisive action, and de-risk strategic investments to achieve faster, bolder transformation.

For additional information about the Datos Insights 2025 Impact Awards in Fraud & AML, contact [email protected].

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