As ACFCS surveys the landscape of what new challenges and opportunities in financial crime 2018 will bring, we are continuing our “Lessons Learned” series, asking key thought leaders what last year taught the community and how that knowledge should help arm compliance professionals for the year ahead.

Not surprisingly, a good predictor of what will happen in 2018 is rooted in trends from 2017, a year where criminals made history with record hack attacks and equally massive data hauls that put millions of people and companies at risk.