The boundaries between fraud and AML have dissolved as financial crime increasingly crosses traditional operational silos. Mule networks flagged in transaction monitoring require AML investigation; synthetic identities caught at onboarding reappear in downstream fraud scenarios; state-sponsored cyber operations generate both wire fraud and sanctions exposure. Legacy point-solution architectures that keep fraud and AML siloed are no longer adequate. The Datos Insights’ 2026 Impact Awards in Financial Crime Convergence establish six award categories spanning AI-driven innovation, consortium intelligence sharing, investigative automation, FI-developed capabilities, and unified transaction monitoring. This report recognizes FIs and vendors that have advanced the industry’s response through innovations explicitly designed to address financial crime convergence. They recognize the structural reality that fraud and AML are no longer separate disciplines but interconnected domains driven by the same threat actors and exploitation patterns.
The winners of the 2026 Impact Awards in Financial Crime Convergence follow:
- Best AI-Driven Innovation Across Fraud & AML Category: Incode Technologies and Unit21
- Best Consortium & Intelligence Sharing Category: Sardine, Mastercard & Feedzai, and NICE Actimize
- Best Financial Crime Investigation and Reporting Category: Moody’s and ThetaRay
- Best Fraud or AML Innovation by and FI Category: National Australia Bank and Standard Chartered Bank
- Best Joint AML and Fraud Transaction Monitoring Category: DataVisor and Sardine
Clients of Datos Insights’ Fraud & AML service can download this report.
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