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London, July 27th – Napier AI, a global leader in AI-powered financial crime compliance solutions, has been named to CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2026 list as part of the newly created Regtech category.
Regtech has become an increasing focus for fintech companies in recent years, particularly in the age of AI, according to CNBC, with the recognition showcasing those firms helping businesses to meet regulatory obligations across reporting, compliance, identity verification, and risk and anti-money-laundering monitoring.
Money laundering, in particular, costs $5.5 trillion in losses each year across the world, equating to 5 per cent of global gross domestic product (GDP) laundered globally, according to the Napier AI / AML Index 2025 – 2026. But with the right AI for AML in place, $3.3 trillion could be returned to global economies.
Napier AI was recognised as a top Regtech provider, reflecting the powerful results it drives for its global customer base as well as the latest innovations launched in its Napier AI Continuum platform. Trusted by over one hundred regulated institutions globally, Napier AI Continuum delivers proven reductions in false positives, faster investigations, and stronger regulatory confidence.
- Banco do Brasil reduced its transaction screening false positive rate to just two percent.
- Australia Post more than halved false positives while increasing detection of unusual activity by one hundred and thirty-five percent, and ultimately supporting law enforcement to bust a money-laundering ring.
- Freemarket scaled transaction volumes by approximately one thousand two hundred and thirty percent without increasing financial crime headcount, while achieving seventy-seven percent faster transaction monitoring investigations.
Insights AI is the latest innovation from Napier AI to tackle gaps within AML transaction monitoring, helping analysts to understand the behaviour, context and risk between high volumes of alerts. It uses behavioural analytics and natural language explanations directly within transaction monitoring tasks to give analysts clear, AI-driven explanations of customer behaviour and the activity contributing to each task.
This innovation was tested in the Financial Conduct Authority’s Supercharged Sandbox, as part of Project Theseus, looking at novel frequency-based AI algorithms on large-scale synthetic financial datasets to detect money-laundering typologies more effectively than traditional rules-based systems, while using significantly reduced compute power.
Greg Watson, CEO of Napier AI, commented: “Financial crime and money laundering remain a persistent challenge facing the global economy, which is why specialist Regtech solutions are crucial in driving real-world results. Financial institutions are under constant pressure with high alert volume and unmanageable false positive rates, but they need trusted and proven AI that reduces risk-exposure through explainable, auditable, and accurate intelligence.”
“Working with regulators like the FCA, we’ve been able to continuously develop stronger AML technology to help analysts and compliance teams within major finance firms to cut through the noise and root out some of the biggest financial crime risks.”
The list consists of the top 500 fintech companies globally across eight market segments, selected by CNBC and Statista, honouring the most innovative businesses within the sector.
About Napier AI
Napier AI is a RegTech delivering anti-money laundering and financial crime compliance software to financial institutions, payments and wealth & asset management firms. Napier AI designs and engineers technological innovation to make a measurable difference in driving down financial crime. Trusted by over 100 institutions worldwide, the company’s platform, Napier AI Continuum, is transforming compliance from a legal obligation to a competitive edge.
