At the Wolfsberg Forum this week, Egmont Group Chair @Elżbieta Franków-Jaśkiewicz shared a clear message: public-private partnerships are no longer optional, they are becoming core infrastructure in the fight against financial crime.
As financial crime becomes more complex, fast-moving, and cross-border, no single authority or dataset is sufficient. Effective collaboration between Financial Intelligence Units and the private sector is essential to connect fragmented information and turn it into actionable intelligence.
The discussion highlighted several priorities for making these partnerships work in practice:
- Clear legal frameworks and trust-based collaboration to enable secure information sharing
- Two-way value, where the private sector both provides data and receives actionable insights
- A strong focus on operational outcomes, measured by disruptions, recoveries, and investigations supported, not just activity
Technology can help scale this collaboration, but only when anchored in clear governance and real operational use cases. As emphasized during the session, technology should serve the partnership, not substitute for it.
The Egmont Group will continue to support FIUs globally in strengthening these models, ensuring they deliver meaningful results in an increasingly complex environment.
We thank the Wolfsberg Group for inviting the Egmont Group to contribute to this important conversation on strengthening public-private partnerships in the fight against financial crime.
