The financial crime technology market has grown substantially over the last five years. The number of vendors has grown faster than the evidence base for their claims. Buyers are navigating a space where marketing vocabulary—AI-native, real-time, explainable—is used by products with fundamentally different architectures and performance profiles.
Maturity in a technology market shows up in independent benchmarking, regulatory acceptance, and procurement standards. On those measures, this market is still early.