The financial crime landscape has entered an era of unprecedented acceleration, where the velocity of criminal innovation now outpaces traditional defensive capabilities. FIs are navigating an environment where fraudsters leverage AI more nimbly than institutions can deploy it, where real-time payment systems create recovery windows measured in milliseconds, and where the line between legitimate customers and criminal accomplices becomes increasingly blurred.
At the end of August 2025, over 500 financial crime executives, solution providers, and industry experts came together at Datos Insights’ eighth annual Financial Crime and Cybersecurity Forum in Charlotte, North Carolina. This report captures critical themes and actionable insights that emerged from Datos Insights’ eighth annual Financial Crime and Cybersecurity Forum.
Clients of Datos Insights’ Fraud & AML service can download this report.
Datos Insights thanks all the sponsors that supported the Financial Crime and Cybersecurity Forum:
- Premier sponsors: Alloy, DataVisor, FICO, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, and SentiLink
- Platinum sponsors: Akamai, Arkose Labs, BioCatch, Callsign, Celebrus, Darwinium, Entersekt, F5, Featurespace, Feedzai, FinScan, Fravity AI, GetReal, Greenlite, Greenway Solutions, Hummingbird, HYPR, IronVest, Middesk, Mitek, Nasdaq Verafin, Netcraft, NICE Actimize, Outseer, Pindrop, Prove, Provenir, SAS, Socure, Somos, Symmetry, Transaction Network Services (TNS), Transmit Security, TransUnion, and WorkFusion
- Gold sponsors: Abrigo, ACAMS, Advanced Fraud Solutions, Anonybit, ARGO Cyber, CPI Card Group, CSI, Daon, Deduce, Fingerprint, Fivecast, ID Dataweb, Incode, INFORM GmbH, Innovis, Oscilar, Ping, Refine Intelligence, Saifr, Sardine, The Knoble, ThreatFabric, and ThreatMark
- Supporting sponsors: 1Kosmos, CUBE3.AI, Hawk, Memcyco, Q2 Holdings Inc., and Reality Defender
About the Author

Chuck Subrt
Charles (Chuck) Subrt is the Director of Datos Insights' Fraud & AML practice, and he covers anti-money laundering and compliance issues. Chuck brings 20 years of legal and compliance experience and a deep expertise advising business leaders, driving change, and establishing strong, self-sustaining AML and financial crime compliance and risk management programs at a global financial services company. For the past 10 years, Chuck led multiple compliance functions for Sun...
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Gabrielle Inhofe
Gabrielle Inhofe is a Senior Associate with Datos Insights’s Fraud & AML team. Her primary interests include cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and EU policy. Prior to joining Datos Insights, Gabrielle worked in Strategy and Global Regulations at cybersecurity company OneSpan, where she wrote the 2022 Global Financial Regulations Report. Gabrielle has a Masters in Advanced European and International Studies from the...