LexisNexis survey: Compliance costs soared for U.K. banks in 2023
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Adrianne Appel2024-08-06T16:54:00
Nearly all but a tiny minority of financial institutions saw their costs of financial crime compliance (FCC) rise in 2023, a survey by LexisNexis and Oxford Economics found.
Ninety-eight percent of financial institutions said their costs of FCC rose last year, according to the report, “The True Cost of Financial Crime Compliance,” which analyzed the responses of 254 individuals at UK banks and other financial services institutions.
The firms spent 38.3 billion pounds (U.S. $48.9 billion) on FCC last year, up 12 percent over 2022 and up a whopping 32 percent from 2021, the report found.
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