68% of executives across financial and professional services who expect an increase in financial crime risk cite cybersecurity threats and data breaches as the top risk factor.

AI is primarily being used to identify suspicious behavior (63%) across financial and professional services organizations.

Over 71% of executives across financial and professional services anticipate a rise in financial crime risks in 2025. This is also stated as almost three quarters of senior global financial services professionals.

Globally, just under two in five (39%) senior financial professionals say that they are "very confident" in their organisation's sanctions screening capabilities, with the U.K. (34%) trailing the global average.

35% of financial services professionals identified political instability as a challenge to supply chain assessment.

26% of financial services professionals identified geopolitical risk as a challenge to supply chain assessment.

44% of financial and professional services organisations use AI for identifying risk signals.

54% of financial and professional services organisations use AI for network analysis.

Only 38% of financial services professionals are "very confident" in their financial compliance program's ability to detect emerging geopolitical threats.

Looking ahead through 2025, just one-third (33%) of financial services professionals say that they are "very prepared" to address geopolitical risks over the next 12 months.

Only 20% of financial services professionals believe AI has had a "very positive" effect on their financial crime compliance framework – down from 37% in 2023.

While 37% of financial and professional services organizations peform sanctions screening entirely in-house, using a third party (34%) and hybrid approach (28%) are becoming increasingly common.

Nearly half of financial services professionals (49%) say keeping up with regulatory changes is the biggest challenge in sanctions compliance, up from one-third (34%) in 2023.

Among financial services professionals who were less than "very confident" in their program's ability to assess their supply chains for threats, more than half (56%) of global respondents identified cybercrime as the biggest challenge to their programs in 2025.