Intelligence sharing: from support to investment
Respondents support better intelligence sharing, but investment intentions are limited. Members should review channels, gaps and opportunities to improve.
63% in the Fraud Strategy poll selected real-time sharing as the leading factor in the national strategy’s success.
Respondents identified real-time data sharing between firms as central to the national Fraud Strategy’s success. The separate Pulse Survey also highlighted cross-industry intelligence sharing as an area that would benefit from greater collaboration.
Support for sharing does not establish what firms already contribute or what limits further investment. Members should review the usefulness of their existing channels, identify gaps and assess the resources needed to improve them. Proposals for broader obligations must also address safeguards, accountability and cost.
Key statistic
Real-time sharing is central to respondents’ view of the national Fraud Strategy
In the FC360 Fraud Strategy poll, respondents most often selected real-time data sharing between firms as the factor that would determine the national strategy’s success. This finding concerns the national strategy, rather than individual firms’ investment plans. For members, it prompts a practical review: which signals would help prevent fraud, who holds them and how quickly can they be shared and acted on?
of respondents in the FC360 Fraud Strategy poll selected real-time sharing as the leading factor in the national strategy’s success.
Source: FC360 live poll, Fraud Strategy session, 2026.
4% of registration respondents selected data sharing and interoperability as their biggest financial crime challenge for the next 12 months.
National priorities and firm-level challenges differ
In the Fraud Strategy poll, 63% selected real-time sharing between firms as the factor most likely to determine the national Fraud Strategy’s success. Separately, 4% of registration respondents selected data sharing and interoperability as their organisation’s biggest financial crime challenge.
These questions concern different groups and priorities. Selecting another issue as the biggest organisational challenge does not establish that a respondent considers sharing unimportant or does not invest in it.
In the Pulse Survey, cross-industry data or intelligence sharing appeared in 32% of open responses about issues that would benefit from greater collaboration. Joint fraud and mule detection appeared in 31%. These are themes in open responses, rather than answers to a single-choice question.
Kamlesh Harry, Principal Strategic Advisor Fraud & FinCrime Solutions, Nasdaq
Interview takeaway: Address legacy systems, data protection concerns and uncertainty about proportionate sharing.
Erez Nounou, Product Director EMEA, Bottomline
Interview takeaway: Improve sharing across institutions while addressing privacy, data quality and security.
Reported investment intentions are limited
Among 37 Pulse respondents who rated data-sharing limitations as a major challenge, 22% selected data-sharing infrastructure among their likely investments for the next 12 months. Among the other 63 respondents, 17% selected it.
These answers describe investment intentions, not actual spending or participation in existing sharing arrangements. They do not establish why respondents selected other investments.
The findings do not determine whether limited investment intentions reflect cost, technical barriers, existing arrangements or uncertainty about requirements. Proposals for mandatory sharing should therefore be presented as policy recommendations, rather than conclusions proved by the survey.
