Anti-money Laundering Market Size, Share, Industry, Growth, Latest Trends
Anti-money Laundering (AML) Market by Offering (Solutions (KYC/CDD & Sanctions Screening, Transaction Monitoring, Case Management & Reporting)), End User (Banks & Financial Institutes, Insurance, Gaming & Gambling), and Region - Global Forecast to 2030
OVERVIEW
Source: Secondary Research, Interviews with Experts, MarketsandMarkets Analysis
The global AML market size is projected to grow from USD 4.13 billion in 2025 to USD 9.38 billion by 2030 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17.8% during the forecast period.Rising digital payments and online banking increase transaction volumes and financial crime risks, driving demand for advanced AML solutions. The expanding threat landscape and evolving regulations highlight the need for anticipatory compliance strategies and sophisticated monitoring to combat complex illicit financial flows.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The North America AML market accounted for a 35.73% revenue share in 2025.
- By offering, the service segment is expected to register the highest CAGR of 17.3%.
- By deployment mode, the cloud segment is projected to grow at the fastest rate from 2025 to 2030.
- By organization, the large enterprises segment is expected to dominate the market.
- By end user , the insurance segment will grow the fastest during the forecast period.
- LexisNexis, Oracle, FIS, Fiserv, and Jumio were identified as some of the star players in the Quantum Key Distributiion (QKD) market (global), given their strong market share and product footprint.
- SymphonyAI, Trulioo, and Napier among others, have distinguished themselves among startups and SMEs by securing strong footholds in specialized niche areas, underscoring their potential as emerging market leaders.
Enterprise AML solution adoption is driven by multi-jurisdictional compliance demands, large-scale transaction monitoring, advanced AI and analytics for risk detection, operational efficiency, integration across legacy systems, and the need to safeguard corporate reputation while ensuring smooth global business operations.
TRENDS & DISRUPTIONS IMPACTING CUSTOMERS' CUSTOMERS
Enterprise AML solutions are moving beyond traditional monitoring toward AI-powered, real-time, cross-border, and crypto-integrated platforms. These solutions enable banks, insurers, and gaming operators to identify sophisticated money laundering schemes, minimize false positives, maintain regulatory compliance, and enhance transparency, ultimately reducing financial crime risk and regulatory expenses.
Source: Secondary Research, Interviews with Experts, MarketsandMarkets Analysis
MARKET DYNAMICS
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Increased monetary penalties, regulatory sanctions, and reputational loss due to noncompliance with regulations

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Rise in focus toward digital payments and Internet banking
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Increased technological complexities and sophistication of attacks
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Budgetary issues in developing in-house fraud detection solutions
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Higher adoption of advanced analytics in AML
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Integration of AI, ML, and big data technologies in developing AML solutions
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Lack of skilled AML professionals with in-depth knowledge
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Lack of awareness related to government regulations and deployment ofAML solutions
Source: Secondary Research, Interviews with Experts, MarketsandMarkets Analysis
Driver: Increased monetary penalties, regulatory sanctions, and reputational loss due to noncompliance with regulations
When failing to comply with anti-money laundering (AML) requirements, organizations face growing financial penalties, stricter regulatory actions, and potential reputational harm. This drives businesses to invest more heavily in compliance frameworks, monitoring systems, and robust AML solutions to avoid long-term damage.
Restraint: Increased technological complexities and sophistication of attacks
The rapid evolution of financial crimes, powered by advanced technology and sophisticated cyberattacks, creates significant hurdles for AML initiatives. Complex transaction patterns, cross-border networks, and innovative evasion techniques often outpace existing systems, making detection and prevention increasingly difficult for financial institutions.
Opportunity: Higher adoption of advanced analytics in AML
The integration of advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning presents opportunities to strengthen AML compliance. These tools help identify hidden patterns, reduce false positives, and provide real-time insights, enabling financial institutions to detect suspicious activity more effectively and proactively mitigate risks.
Challenge: Lack of skilled AML professionals with in-depth knowledge
A major challenge is the shortage of skilled AML experts with deep regulatory, financial, and technological knowledge. Without experienced professionals, organizations struggle to manage compliance programs, interpret evolving regulations, and fully leverage advanced AML technologies, resulting in persistent operational inefficiencies.
Anti-Money Laundering Market: COMMERCIAL USE CASES ACROSS INDUSTRIES
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A leading global bank deployed LexisNexis RiskNarrative and WorldCompliance for real-time transaction screening, sanctions and PEP checks, and integrated risk scoring to strengthen AML compliance. | Achieved faster customer due-diligence, reduced false positives by ~40%, improved regulatory reporting timelines, and lowered compliance costs |
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A regional financial institution adopted Oracle Financial Services AML to unify transaction monitoring, suspicious-activity reporting, and case management across all channels. | Improved detection of unusual cross-border flows, cut investigation time by ~30%, enhanced reporting accuracy, and ensured adherence to FATF/EU directives |
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A large retail bank implemented FIS AML Compliance Suite with AI-based behavioral analytics to detect hidden laundering patterns and high-risk entities. | Increased early-stage detection of suspicious activities, reduced alert backlogs by ~35%, and strengthened oversight for correspondent banking transactions |
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A mid-sized US bank modernized its legacy monitoring with Fiserv AML Risk Manager, enabling automated watch-list screening, customer risk-scoring, and SAR workflows. | Decreased false-alert volume, improved investigator productivity by ~25%, reduced reporting delays, and boosted audit readiness |
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A fintech platform integrated Jumio’s eKYC and AML Screening for onboarding, combining biometric ID verification with ongoing sanctions and adverse-media checks. | Lowered onboarding-related AML risks, improved user-verification speed by ~50%, and raised conversion rates while maintaining compliance |
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MARKET ECOSYSTEM
The AML market ecosystem comprises KYC/Customer Due Diligence and sanction screening providers, transaction monitoring providers, case management and reporting providers, and end users such as banks and financial institutions, insurance, and gaming & gambling segments. Regulatory authorities and standardization bodies also play a crucial role in influencing market trends, innovations, and an organization's AML strategies.
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MARKET SEGMENTS
Source: Secondary Research, Interviews with Experts, MarketsandMarkets Analysis
AML Market, By Offering
The AML solutions segment holds the larger market share, as organizations focus on implementing advanced tools to detect, monitor, and prevent money laundering activities. Solutions leveraging AI, machine learning, transaction monitoring, and risk-based scoring are widely adopted across banking, fintech, and insurance sectors, driving market growth by enabling faster detection, regulatory compliance, and improved transparency.
AML Market, By Deployment Mode
On-premises deployment remains preferred in the AML market, particularly among banking and financial institutions handling sensitive data. It ensures full control over security, system performance, and compliance, allowing seamless integration with existing infrastructure. Despite the growing adoption of cloud solutions, on-premises setups remain critical where data privacy, latency, and operational risk are top priorities.
AML Market, By Organization Size
Large enterprises hold the majority share in the AML market, driven by their extensive financial operations, high transaction volumes, and exposure to complex money laundering risks. These organizations invest heavily in advanced AML solutions, AI-powered analytics, and real-time transaction monitoring to detect suspicious activities, ensure regulatory compliance, and safeguard financial assets across multiple business units and geographies. Their scale and complexity make them prime adopters of sophisticated AML systems that integrate data from multiple sources to proactively mitigate risks.
AML Market, By End User
The banking and financial institutions segment dominates the AML market, owing to high-value transactions, stringent regulatory requirements, and large customer bases. These institutions deploy advanced AML solutions, transaction monitoring, and AI-powered analytics to prevent money laundering, ensure regulatory compliance, and maintain trust across banking operations.
REGION
Europe to be the fastest-growing region in the global FDP market during forecast period
Europe is expected to grow at the fastest rate in the AML market, driven by stricter EU regulations and directives (5AMLD, 6AMLD), the creation of a supranational AML Authority, rising financial crime across digital, crypto, and cross-border channels, demands for real-time monitoring and analytics, and growing pressure to reduce regulatory risk and reputational damage.

Anti-Money Laundering Market: COMPANY EVALUATION MATRIX
In the AML market matrix, LexisNexis (Star) leads with a strong market presence and a comprehensive suite of AML solutions, driving widespread adoption across sectors such as BFSI, fintech, and gaming. GB Group (Emerging Leader) is gaining momentum with innovative identity verification and compliance technologies, demonstrating significant growth potential to move toward the leaders' quadrant.
Source: Secondary Research, Interviews with Experts, MarketsandMarkets Analysis
KEY MARKET PLAYERS
MARKET SCOPE
| REPORT METRIC | DETAILS |
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| Market Size in 2024 (Value) | 2.02 Billion |
| Market Forecast in 2030 (value) | 9.38 Billion |
| Growth Rate | CAGR of 17.8% from 2025 to 2030 |
| Years Considered | 2019–2030 |
| Base Year | 2024 |
| Forecast Period | 2025–2030 |
| Units Considered | Value (USD Billion/Million) |
| Report Coverage | Revenue forecast, company ranking, competitive landscape, growth factors, and trends |
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| Regions Covered | North America, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East & Africa, and Latin America |
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| CLIENT REQUEST | CUSTOMIZATION DELIVERED | VALUE ADDS |
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| Leading AML Solution Provider (US) | Product Analysis: Comprehensive product matrix comparing AML solution portfolios across key vendors | Clearer view of competitive positioning and differentiation in AML offerings |
| Leading AML Service Provider (UK) | Company Information: Detailed profiling of additional AML market players (up to 5) | Deeper insights into market dynamics, competitor strategies, and potential partnership opportunities |
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
- April 2025 : FIS acquired Global Payments’ Issuer Solutions business. This acquisition strengthens FIS's position as a global fintech leader and extends its value proposition through Issuer Solutions' credit processing offering.
- February 2025 : LexisNexis acquired IDVerse, an AI-driven document authentication and fraud detection provider, integrating it into its RiskNarrative, IDU, and Dynamic Decision Platform offerings under the Business Services segment.
- December 2024 : SAS, in collaboration with Neterium, launched SAS Real-Time Watchlist Screening, a cloud-native solution integrated with advanced screening engines to provide end-to-end capabilities for real-time, explainable sanctions decisioning. The solution aims to reduce false positives and enhance compliance for financial institutions.
- November 2024 : Jumio partnered with LatticeFlow AI to enhance its AI-powered identity verification platform by proactively identifying model failure modes, improving performance, and strengthening fraud protection, in preparation for the EU AI Act's increased governance obligations.
- October 2024 : Oracle launched the Investigation Hub, an AI-powered case management solution designed to streamline financial crime investigations by reducing manual tasks, breaking down data silos, and enhancing collaboration across compliance teams.
Table of Contents
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Methodology
Secondary research was conducted to collect information useful for this technical, market-oriented, and commercial study of the global AML market. The next step was to validate these findings, assumptions, and sizing with industry experts across the value chain using primary research. Different approaches, such as top-down and bottom-up, were employed to estimate the total market size. After that, the market breakup and data triangulation procedures were used to estimate the market size of the segments and subsegments of the AML market.
Secondary Research
In the secondary research process, various secondary sources were referred to for identifying and collecting information regarding the study. The secondary sources included annual reports, press releases, investor presentations of AML solution and service vendors, forums, certified publications, and whitepapers. The secondary research was mainly used to obtain key information about the industry’s supply chain, the total pool of key players, market classification and segmentation according to industry trends to the bottom-most level, regional markets, and key developments from both market- and technology-oriented perspectives, all of which were further validated by primary sources.
Primary Research
In the primary research process, various primary sources from both the supply and demand sides were interviewed to obtain qualitative and quantitative information for this report. The primary sources from the supply side included various industry experts, including Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), Vice Presidents (VPs), marketing directors, technology and innovation directors, and related key executives from various key companies and organizations operating in the AML market.
In the market engineering process, top-down and bottom-up approaches were extensively used, along with several data triangulation methods, to perform the market estimation and market forecasting for the overall market segments and subsegments listed in this report. Extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis was performed on the complete market engineering process to list key information/insights throughout the report.
After the complete market engineering process (including calculations for market statistics, market breakups, market size estimations, market forecasts, and data triangulation), extensive primary research was conducted to gather information and verify & validate the critical numbers arrived at. The primary research was also conducted to identify the segmentation types, industry trends, competitive landscape of AML market players, and key market dynamics, such as drivers, restraints, opportunities, challenges, industry trends, and key strategies.
Note: Other levels include sales managers, marketing managers, and product managers.
Tier 1 companies receive revenues higher than USD 10 billion; Tier 2 companies' revenues range between USD 1 and 10 billion; and Tier 3
companies' revenues range between USD 500 million and USD 1 billion.
Source: Industry Experts
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Market Size Estimation
Top-down and bottom-up approaches were used to estimate and validate the size of the AML market and the size of various dependent subsegments in the overall AML market. The research methodology used to estimate the market size includes the following details: critical players in the market were identified through secondary research, and their market shares in the respective regions were determined through primary and secondary research. This entire procedure included the study of the annual and financial reports of the top market players, and extensive interviews were conducted for key insights from the industry leaders, such as CEOs, VPs, directors, and marketing executives.
All percentage splits and breakdowns were determined using secondary sources and verified through primary sources. All possible parameters that affect the market covered in this research study have been accounted for, viewed in extensive detail, verified through primary research, and analyzed to get the final quantitative and qualitative data. This data is consolidated and added to detailed inputs and analysis from MarketsandMarkets.
Anti-money Laundering (AML) Market : Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach

Data Triangulation
The market was split into several segments and subsegments after arriving at the overall market size using the market size estimation processes explained above. The data triangulation and market breakup procedures were employed, wherever applicable, to complete the overall market engineering process and arrive at the exact statistics of each market segment and subsegment. The data was triangulated by studying various factors and trends from both the demand and supply sides.
Market Definition
MarketsandMarkets defines anti-money laundering as a practice by financial institutes such as banks, insurance, or gaming & gambling enterprises to monitor and prevent any illegal activities that support money laundering and terrorist financing. These banks and financial institutes follow a set of policies and regulations during KYC/CDD, transaction screening & monitoring, and compliance to avoid fraudulent and illegal activities around financial systems.
Stakeholders
- Chief technology and data officers
- Anti-money laundering service professionals
- Business analysts
- Information technology (IT) professionals
- Government agencies
- Investors and venture capitalists
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large enterprises
- Third-party providers
- Consultants/Consultancies/Advisory firms
- Managed and professional service providers
Report Objectives
- To describe and forecast the global AML market by offering, solution, deployment mode, organization size, end user, and region
- To forecast the market size of the five main regions: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific (APAC), the Middle East & Africa, and Latin America
- To provide detailed information related to significant factors (drivers, restraints, opportunities, and challenges) influencing the growth of the market
- To analyze the subsegments of the market concerning individual growth trends, prospects, and contributions to the overall market
- To profile the key players of the AML market and comprehensively analyze their market shares and core competencies
- To analyze the opportunities in the market for stakeholders and provide the competitive landscape details of major players
- To map the companies to get competitive intelligence based on company profiles, key player strategies, and game-changing developments such as product developments, collaborations, and acquisitions
- To track and analyze the competitive developments, such as product enhancements & product launches, acquisitions, and partnerships & collaborations, in the AML market globally
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Geographic Analysis as per Feasibility
- Further breakup of the Asia Pacific market into countries contributing to the rest of the regional market size
- Further breakup of the North American market into countries contributing to the rest of the regional market size
- Further breakup of the Latin American market into countries contributing to the rest of the regional market size
- Further breakup of the Middle East & African market into countries contributing to the rest of the regional market size
- Further breakup of the European market into countries contributing to the rest of the regional market size
Company Information
- Detailed analysis and profiling of additional market players (up to 5)
Key Questions Addressed by the Report
What are the opportunities in the global AML market?
Higher adoption of advanced analytics in AML, integration of AI, ML, and big data technologies in developing AML solutions, adoption of cloud-based AML solutions to combat financial crimes, and the increased use of AML in the real estate sector to pave way for AML market growth, fostering the growth and opportunities for the AML market.
What is the definition of the AML market?
MarketsandMarkets defines anti-money laundering as a practice by financial institutes such as banks, insurance, or gaming & gambling enterprises to monitor and prevent any illegal activities that support money laundering and terrorist financing. These banks and financial institutes follow a set of policies and regulations during KYC/CDD, transaction screening & monitoring, and compliance to avoid fraudulent and illegal activities around the financial systems.
Which region is expected to show the largest AML market share?
North America is expected to account for the largest market share during the forecast period.
Who are the major market players covered in the report?
Major vendors include LexisNexis (US), Oracle (US), FIS (US), Fiserv (US), Jumio (US), NICE Actimize (US), SAS Institute (US), GB Group PLC (UK), FICO (US), ACI Worldwide (US), Experian (Ireland), Wolters Kluwer (Netherlands), Transunion (US), ComplyAdvantage (UK), Friss (Netherlands), and other key players.
What is the current size of the global AML market?
The global AML market size is projected to grow from USD 4.13 billion in 2025 to USD 9.38 billion by 2030 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17.8% during the forecast period.
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