NCA’s UK FIU releases its 2025 SARs Annual Report, highlighting 860,000+ reports filing, stronger asset-denial via DAML, global collaboration, and new digital tools driving AML/CTF effectiveness

The report highlights an exceptional year for the UK Financial Intelligence Unit, with over 860,000 SARs received, the highest-ever value of assets denied through Defence Against Money Laundering requests, and continued global leadership in exploiting SARs to disrupt money laundering and criminal finance. It also details strengthened public-private and international cooperation, extensive reporter engagement, and significant advances in SARs IT reform, including the rollout of the new SARs Portal and Digital Service to improve data quality, analytics, and law-enforcement outcomes…