The Bank of England provides banking, payments and custodial services to a range of domestic and international customers, including central banks, government entities and systemically important financial institutions. These activities support the Bank's mission to maintain monetary and financial stability and involve the movement of high-value domestic and cross-border transactions through a range of payment and messaging channels. The Bank maintains a robust financial crime control framework and is committed to complying with all applicable sanctions, anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF) and fraud prevention requirements. Technology plays a critical role in this framework by monitoring customer activity, identifying unusual or anomalous behaviour, supporting sanctions screening, and enabling the investigation and management of financial crime risks. The Bank is reviewing its technology capability across transaction screening and monitoring for financial crime, covering fraud, sanctions and AML/CTF. Through this market engagement exercise, the Bank is seeking information on current and emerging solutions, as well as deployment approaches.

Procurement Act 2023

The Bank of England (Authority) would like Service Providers to express their interest in premarket engagement before 3pm on 01 Sep 2026 by sending an email to [email protected] . Please title your e--mail " Financial Crime Transaction Monitoring Systems Market Engagement Request for Information (CD2430)". Please include the following detail in your message: - - Quoting Reference - Financial Crime Transaction Monitoring Systems Market Engagement Request for Information (CD2430) - - Full name - Company/organisation name/ parent company detail - Contact details (E-mail and phone number) - Cyber essential certificates Please also state you Organisation ID if you have an existing Oracle account with the Bank of England. The Authority is entitled to exclude you from consideration if you fail to provide information on any of the following: - Company/organisation name/ UK parent company detail - Cyber essential certificate The information provided will be taken into account by the Authority in considering whether or not you will be able to proceed any further in respect of this procurement exercise. You will require to register to the Bank e-portal for this process. Once you pass the pre-defined qualification (company details and cyber essential certificate), we will release a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) to sign. Once fully completed, an invitation to the premarket engagement event will be released. This Notice is for information only. The information contained in this notice, including information relating to the nature and scope of the requirements, the estimated value, the service classification of this requirement and the list of CPV codes, is only indicative of current thinking and is neither exhaustive nor binding and the Authority reserves the right at its absolute discretion to amend it at the time of issue of any further notices or at any other time. The publication of this notice in no way obliges the Authority to commence any competitive tender process. The Authority is not and shall not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in participating in this premarket engagement exercise.