Financial Crime & AML Statistics

Citeable financial crime, AML, fraud, and sanctions statistics: headline numbers, methodology, full data tables, and year-over-year trends.

AML Fines by Regulator 2024 AML

Global AML, KYC, and sanctions fines totalled $4.6 billion in 2024, down 30% from $6.57 billion in 2023, per Fenergo's AML Enforcement ...

$4.6 billion (2024) ›

AML Fines Globally 2024 AML

Global AML enforcement fines totaled $4.6 billion in 2024, per Fenergo's annual report. TD Bank's $3.1 billion settlement with DOJ and ...

$4.6 billion (2024) ›

APP Fraud Losses (UK / US / EU) fraud

UK APP fraud losses totalled £450.7 million in 2024, down 2% from 2023, according to UK Finance and the Payment Systems Regulator. EU/EEA ...

£450.7 million (UK, 2024) ›

Average AML Staffing Cost per Mid-Market Bank AML

U.S. and Canadian financial institutions spent $61 billion on financial crime compliance in 2024 (LexisNexis Risk Solutions / Forrester ...

$61 billion (2024, U.S. and Canada) ›

Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Rates KYC

As of November 2024, just 6.5 million BOI reports had been filed with FinCEN against an estimated 32.6 million required, a compliance rate ...

~20% ›

Cryptocurrency Laundering Volumes AML

Total illicit crypto activity reached $40.9 billion in 2024, according to Chainalysis's 2025 Crypto Crime Report, with the firm projecting ...

$40.9 billion (2024, lower-bound est.) ›

CSAM Financial Flow Detection Statistics fraud

The NCMEC CyberTipline received 20.5 million reports in 2024, covering child sexual exploitation and CSAM. FinCEN's February 2024 Financial ...

20.5 million ›

Deepfake-Enabled Fraud Incident Volume fraud

In 2024, Entrust recorded one deepfake identity attack every five minutes globally. Regula's August 2024 survey found 49% of businesses ...

1 deepfake attack every 5 minutes (2024) ›

DORA Readiness Survey operational-resilience

Just 44% of financial institutions were confident they'd meet DORA's January 2025 deadline (BCI Operational Resilience Report, 2024). ...

44% ›

EU AI Act Compliance Readiness Survey AI-governance

Just 26.2% of firms surveyed had actively started EU AI Act compliance preparations as of September 2024, according to a Deloitte Legal ...

26% (Q3 2024) ›

False Positive Rates in Transaction Monitoring AML

Between 90% and 95% of alerts from traditional rule-based transaction monitoring systems are false positives, per PwC analysis cited across ...

90–95% ›

FATF Mutual Evaluation Results regulatory

76% of countries have satisfactorily implemented FATF's 40 Recommendations in law and regulation as of 2024, up from 36% in 2012, according ...

76% (of countries satisfactorily implemented FATF's 40 Recommendations, 2024) ›

Fraud Losses by Sector 2024 fraud

U.S. consumers reported $12.5 billion in fraud losses in 2024, a 25% rise from 2023, per the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Network. Investment ...

$12.5 billion (FTC, 2024) ›

Human Trafficking Financial Typology Volumes AML

Forced labour, including human trafficking, generated $236 billion in illegal profits in 2024, per the ILO's "Profits and Poverty: The ...

$236 billion (2024) ›

Mule Account Detection Rates fraud

BioCatch's 2024 Global Money Mule Networks report documented nearly 2 million money laundering accounts flagged by 257 financial ...

~2 million mule accounts (2024) ›

OFAC SDN List Growth Over Time sanctions

OFAC added 3,135 persons to its Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list in 2024, a 25 percent increase from 2,502 in 2023, ...

3,135 new designations (2024) ›

Ransomware Payment Trends fraud

In 2024, ransomware attackers collected $813.55 million globally, down 35.8% from 2023's record $1.25 billion, per Chainalysis's 2025 ...

$813.55 million (2024) ›

Sanctions Screening Accuracy Benchmark sanctions

Sweden's banking regulator tested 19 banks against 5,000 names from UN and EU sanctions lists in 2024. On correctly spelled entries, ...

97.2% ›

SAR Filing Volumes by Country AML

The United States received 4.7 million suspicious activity reports in fiscal year 2024, averaging 12,870 filings per day (FinCEN). The UK's ...

4.7 million SARs (FinCEN, US FY 2024) ›

SAR Quality and Rejection Rates AML

US financial institutions filed 4.7 million suspicious activity reports in fiscal year 2024, averaging 12,870 per day (FinCEN). Bank Policy ...

4.7 million SARs (FY2024, USA) ›