The fourth annual Celent Dimensions survey on Risk and Compliance captures the technology investment priorities of 215 risk, compliance, and anti-financial crime executives globally; image credit: Noviyanita/shutterstock

GlobalData’s Celent division has published a new report: Dimensions: Risk & Compliance IT Pressures and Priorities: 2026 Global.

This report represents Celent’s annual survey of IT priorities, and IT challenges for Risk and Compliance across all industries.

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For the 2026 report, Celent surveyed 215 Risk and Compliance Execs globally. The 2026 results mark several shifts:

  • AI is rewiring core risk processes including: transaction monitoring, KYC, regulatory change management.
  • AI has industrialised financial crime, and legacy AFC systems are losing ground.
  • Governance frameworks built for supervised ML models are not fit for the agentic systems now entering production.

Further information on accessing the full report is available via this link.