The True Cost of Compliance series aims to measure and track the UK financial services sector’s response to detecting and preventing financial crime.
Working in collaboration with leading research agency, Oxford Economics, we carried out in depth qualitative surveys of 254 UK firms to quantify spend and split of activities across the full range of compliance obligations, exploring how people and technology are employed in the fight against fraud and money laundering and asking the question: is the sector doing enough of the right things?