2026 Governance Consulting Market Report
Danos Consulting has published its 2026 Governance Consulting Market Report, providing insight into how organisations across Financial Services are responding to regulatory pressure, financial crime risk, and operational change.
Throughout 2025, consulting and interim solutions played a central role in helping firms deliver regulatory remediation, investigations, transformation programmes, and BAU governance coverage. That demand is expected to remain strong into 2026 as organisations balance regulatory expectations with cost discipline.
The report examines consulting demand across sell-side banking, buy-side firms, and FinTech organisations, alongside indicative consultant rate benchmarks and a practical case study demonstrating consulting delivery at scale.
Key themes include:
- Continued regulatory focus on AML, sanctions, fraud frameworks, and governance accountability
- Increased use of interim consulting to deliver remediation and change programmes
- Growing demand for specialists supporting AI-enabled monitoring and financial crime transformation
- Structural investment in compliance and financial crime capability expected across the buy-side in 2026
Download the report which includes consultant rate benchmarks across Compliance and Financial Crime in both the UK and U.S. markets, providing a practical reference point for organisations planning projects or budgeting for governance delivery.
A featured case study demonstrates how Danos Consulting deployed a specialist team to help a trading firm clear over 20,000 transaction-monitoring alerts within a 12-week remediation programme, strengthening financial crime controls and enabling business-as-usual operations to resume.
Danos Consulting supports organisations with flexible governance consulting solutions across Compliance, Financial Crime, Legal, and Risk. Providing experienced practitioners who can operate effectively in complex, regulated environments from day one.
Download the report to learn more about governance consulting trends in 2026.
