Accenture has won the Fraud & Financial Crime Programme Advisory Firm of the Year award at the 8th Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence 2025.

Accenture has won the Fraud & Financial Crime Programme Advisory Firm of the Year award at the 8th Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence 2025, which was celebrated at an in-person ceremony on 10 November 2025. 

This award recognises an advisory firm that excels in fraud and financial crime prevention by providing strategic guidance, innovative solutions, and comprehensive services. The judges looked for firms that showcase exceptional expertise and a trusted partnership in tackling the industry's most complex financial crime challenges. 

Accenture was recognised for its leadership in providing integrated financial crime advisory services spanning strategy, technology, and operations. The firm was commended for its innovative use of Generative AI and Agentic AI to transform compliance functions, underscored by key automation initiatives with local and global clients that significantly improve efficiency and risk management. 

“Accenture stood out for its clear vision of moving financial crime compliance from a reactive to a proactive, intelligence-led function,” said one judge on the Regulation Asia Awards panel. “Their pioneering work in applying agentic AI to complex processes like KYC and Source of Wealth corroboration is transformative. By seamlessly integrating strategic advisory with deep technology implementation and operational scale, they deliver tangible outcomes for their clients, evidenced by their work with systemically important banks in the region.” 

With a global network of over 8,000 Risk & Compliance practitioners, Accenture has delivered measurable impact for some of the world’s leading financial institutions, achieving up to a 40 percent reduction in AML alerts and 50-70 percent cost savings through AI-driven remediation. 

About the Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence 2025  

The Regulation Asia Awards for Excellence recognises financial institutions, technology companies, legal and consulting firms, exchanges and other players that help ensure the highest regulatory compliance standards are upheld in the financial industry. Each year, senior industry practitioners serve on a judging panel to help assess and score each submission to determine the winning entrants.    

For a full list of the 2025 award winners, visit www.regulationasia.com/awards.  

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