The National Crime Agency (NCA) has published its Annual Report and Accounts 2025–2026, setting out its operational performance, strategic priorities and financial results for the year ended 31 March 2026. The report states that the serious and organised crime threat to the UK has increased, driven by factors including technological change, artificial intelligence (AI) and transnational criminal activity. It highlights record operational activity, with 7,580 disruptions recorded during 2025–2026, including operations targeting organised immigration crime, child sexual abuse, drugs, firearms, illicit finance, fraud, cybercrime, and modern slavery and human trafficking. The report also includes the NCA's governance, risk management and audited financial statements, and states that the NCA operated within its approved financial limits during 2025–2026 while continuing to invest in technology, operational capability and workforce development to support its response to serious and organised crime.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has published the Annual Report and Accounts for 2023-2024. The report covers the period between 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 and contains a report for performance, accountability and financial statements.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has published the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) annual report for 2023-2024. The report contains a foreword by James Babbage, NCA Director of General Threats; an introduction by Adrian Searle, Director of the NECC; information on economic crime threat; a review of 2023-2024; and the NCA and NECC's performance.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has published its National Strategic Assessment 2026, with Director General Graeme Biggar reporting that the overall threat from serious and organised crime increased in 2025. The assessment highlights that technology is no longer simply enabling crime; rather, it is actively reshaping criminal activities by accelerating them, globalising operations and increasing the harm caused. The report also noted 92,000 referrals from technology companies related to child sexual abuse and detailed that 533 boat or engine seizures in 2025 potentially prevented 33,000 additional channel crossing attempts. Furthermore, Director General Biggar proposed establishing a National Police Service to evolve law enforcement, building on the capabilities of the NCA and Counter Terrorism Policing to address converging criminal markets and the blurred boundaries between different types of crime.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has published issue 24 of the UK Financial Intelligence Unit’s (UKFIU) magazine tilted ‘UKFIU Support for Reporters’. The 24th issue focuses on UKFIU support for reporters and the UKFIU’s Reporter Engagement Team (RET) who work in collaboration with Suspicious Activity Report (CAR) provide helpful advice on the SAR portal and a case study. Additionally, the 24th issue discusses the new Companies House powers introduced by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023), and the National Investigation Service’s fight against organised crime groups.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has published issue 25 of the UK Financial Intelligence Unit’s (UKFIU) magazine tilted ‘Illegal Wildlife Trade’. The 25th issue focuses on wildlife crime, including wildlife trafficking and associated money laundering of the proceeds of crime. The 25th issue includes describing the work done by organisations such as UK National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU), the Metropolitan Police Service Wildlife Crime Unit (MPSWCU) and TRAFFIC to tackle the illegal wildlife trade; and case studies from the MPSWCU. The 25th issue also reiterates the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) amber alert on ‘Financial Sanctions Evasion, Money Laundering and Cultural Property Trafficking Through the Art Storage Sector’ that was issued in January 2024.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has published issue 26 of the UK Financial Intelligence Unit’s magazine, ‘SARs in Action’. The 26th issue focuses on threats from generative artificial intelligence (AI), terrorist financing glossary codes, crypto asset indicators for financial institutions and being at risk of committing money laundering and terrorist financing offences. The 26th issue concludes with an update on advancements made by SARs digital transformation.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has published the UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) suspicious activity reports (SARs) annual statistical report, with a reporting period of April 2022 to March 2023. The report details that the total number of SARs received is down from the previous year by about 5%, the total number of defence against money laundering (DAML) SARs received is also down by about 11% and the total number of defence against terrorist financing (DATF) SARs are down by about 4.5% from 2021–22.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has published the UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) annual report covering the period April 2024 to March 2025, which shows that 866,616 SARs were received, representing a 0.6% decrease compared with 2023–24. The report also shows that defence against money laundering (DAML) SARs increased by 1% to 57,666, while the value of funds denied to suspected criminals rose by 59% to £382.6m, with the number of account freezing orders, forfeitures and restraints obtained through DAMLs increasing by 15% to 2,048. It further notes that defence against terrorist financing (DATF) SARs decreased slightly to 397, down from 406 in 2023–24. NCA notes that banking and financial services continued to account for the majority of SAR submissions and that 97.86% of SARs were submitted via the SAR Portal.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has published the UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Annual Report 2025–26 covering April 2025 to March 2026. Reporting that £440.8 million was denied to suspected criminals through the Defence Against Money Laundering (DAML) regime, up 15% on the previous year. It received 896,414 SARs, an increase of 3%, while DAML requests fell by 23% to 44,553, primarily following the increase in the reporting threshold from £1,000 to £3,000 in July 2025 to focus resources on higher-risk intelligence. The report attributes increased asset denial to improved reporting quality, investment in systems and greater use of asset recovery powers. Defence Against Terrorist Financing requests rose by 28% to 509. The UKFIU also continued financial intelligence analysis, international cooperation and engagement with reporters, supervisors and law enforcement to support investigations and improve the use of SARs.

The National Crime Agency has published the cross-system professional enablers strategy 2024-2026. The cross-system strategy was developed by the National Economic Crime Centre and the Office for Professional Body AML Supervision in close partnership with HM Government, supervisory bodies, law enforcement, the Crown Prosecution Service and private sector. Its aim is to stimulate a whole system response to deliver a step-change in reducing the threat posed by individuals or institutions that provide a professional service that enables criminality.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has published guidance on how to submit suspicious activity reports (SARs) on the new SAR portal. The guidance provides an overview on the portal, the types of questions asked on the portal in addition to a frequently asked questions document and guidance on how to register for the portal.