Surveillance Leaders Report 2026

What 200+ compliance and surveillance leaders are prioritising next, from AI governance to false-positive reduction.

Discover how surveillance and compliance leaders are addressing AI governance, alert fatigue, fragmented data infrastructure and regulatory pressure in 2026.

Why this report matters

Surveillance leaders are being asked to do more with more data, more asset classes, more communication channels, and greater regulatory scrutiny.

At the same time, many firms are still operating across fragmented architectures that create operational inefficiencies, investigation delays and escalating false positives.

This report explores how leading firms are responding, and where investment priorities are shifting in 2026.
Surveillance Leaders Report 2026

Inside the report

AI governance and adoption
How firms are approaching AI-assisted surveillance while balancing explainability, auditability and compliance risk.

Alert fatigue reduction
The strategies leading teams are using to reduce noise without weakening controls.

Data infrastructure modernisation
Why surveillance effectiveness increasingly depends on unified, high-quality data foundations.

Cross-functional operating models
How compliance, risk, data and engineering teams are evolving collaboration models.

Regulatory preparedness
Where firms expect the greatest supervisory focus over the next 12–24 months.

Key findings

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of banks say applying surveillance across multiple communication channels is a major challenge

of cross-product market abuse surveillance at their firm as “Developing” or “Basic”

of firms see their budgets for market abuse surveillance rising in 2026