At its 2026 annual forum, The Wolfsberg Group brought together more than 100 public and private sector participants from over 20 countries to build consensus around a financial crime risk management framework that prioritises effective outcomes and innovation. The discussions centred on three issues shaping anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) controls: the expanding population of obliged entities and the strain on supervisory capacity, the growing role of private-to-private and public-private information sharing including across borders, and the use of artificial intelligence in supervision, compliance and risk management. The forum produced a repository of key performance indicators for effectiveness, drawing on input from financial intelligence units, law enforcement agencies and private sector firms on the value of suspicious activity reporting and on measures for detecting, disrupting and preventing financial crime. Sessions also focused on responsible risk-based supervision that combines onsite and offsite or remote methods. Breakout groups designed cross-border operational sprints on fentanyl networks in North America, trade-based money laundering between Asia and the Americas, fraud scam networks from the United Kingdom and European Union into southeast Asia, and terror finance cells in Africa using the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime financial disruption methodology. National financial intelligence units and policymakers pledged to support those sprints with the Wolfsberg Group Secretariat, which will also track participants’ measurable commitments over the coming year.

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