The third annual Celent Risk and Compliance Dimensions Survey for 2025 captures the insights and opinions of 94 risk, compliance and anti-financial crime executives from North America to provide an in-depth view into the drivers of IT spending across financial services, as well as the leading technology and investment priorities for the year ahead. The retail banking, corporate banking, capital markets and wealth management sectors are represented in the survey, including all tier sizes of these financial services sectors.
Key findings include:
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Artificial Intelligence has jumped to the top of Risk priorities, cited by 83% of respondents as one of their top 3 investment priorities. Firms are using GenAI and machine learning to transform their financial crime, operational resilience and enterprise risk operations.
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The other Top Five priorities are anti-financial crime (41%), data management (40%), and operational resilience (33%).
This report looks in depth at all these topics as well as shifts in Risk IT budgets.
The Celent Dimensions suite of reports for tracking financial institution IT priorities and spending include drivers for IT investment as well as dollar spending forecasts. Our survey design allows us to create common questions that address all the areas that Celent covers, giving us the unique ability to compare results among different lines of business.
