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A world leading cross system operational response to economic crime
Our mission: To reduce fraud, end the era of the UK as a safe haven for illicit finance and to take ever more proceeds of crime.
Through our world leading approach, the NECC aims to UNDERSTAND, DIRECT and ENHANCE the UK response to economic crime.
- Understand: we monitor the threat, drawing on all source data and our expert partnerships to identify and respond to emerging trends and risks.
- Direct: we design high impact interventions to pursue criminals, prevent the public from becoming victims and protect UK interests and institutions.
- Enhance: we build capability and capacity, strengthening the system response through powerful collaborations and innovations.
We will do this by:
- Bringing together the best of law enforcement, government and the private sector to degrate threats.
- Agreeing priorities and joint action plans, building operational taskforces and coalitions.
- Embedding tech sector capability and expertise at the centre of a whole system approach.
- Analysing data at scale to enable real time impact on the threat.
Working together means a better prioritised, quick and much more effective response to economic crime that benefits the public, businesses and UK economy. This results in less harm for the UK public and business, more criminal activity disrupted, more criminals prosecuted, more criminal assets denied and a stronger UK reputation.
ARIS call for research proposals
The NECC is pleased to launch a Call for Research Proposals under the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS).
We are inviting the academic community to submit innovative proposals that explore the overall theme of asset recovery, its impact on organised crime groups, its effectiveness as a deterrent, and trends in criminal behaviour related to asset acquisition. Proposals can relate to any area of this theme and may involve identifying what works and/or harnessing new technology or developments in the field.
We are keen to support primary research that builds on the existing evidence base on asset recovery and its effectiveness as a deterrent. Research proposals should aim to contribute to improving practical responses or policy. Funding will be awarded via a research grant with applications closing on 30 September 2025.
All further information about the call can be found in the document ARIS Call for Research Proposals Form (906 KB) and the pdf Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document (666 KB) .
Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce
The NECC includes our Public Private Partnership capability which includes the well-established Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT)
The capability operates under a 'JMLIT+' model with more than 200 members, including law enforcement, regulators, public sector bodies, financial institutions, insurance and investment companies, telecommunications firms, technology and social media companies, virtual asset service providers, accountancy and legal firms, the gambling industry and Non-Governmental Organisations.
Working with its partners the JMLIT+ Operations Group supports investigations with private sector information and develops knowledge of typologies to tackle high-end money laundering and serious financial crimes which are complex, multi-institutional and multi-jurisdictional.
Through Public Private Threat Groups and time limited, focussed cells, JMLIT+ members bring together expertise and resources to detect current or emerging threats and to identify innovative ways of collectively combatting them.
The developing Data Fusion capability enables the sharing of bulk but targeted datasets from the banking sector to the NCA which enables new targets of interest to be developed and new analytical products to be produced.
Since its inception in 2015, JMLIT+ has directly, or indirectly, generated the following outcomes as of 31 December 2024:
- More than 10,700 account identified that were not previously known to law enforcement.
- Over 8,100 accounts closed.
- More than 391 arrests.
- More than 1,230 legislative orders granted in part due to JMLIT+ activity.
- Over £248 million identified and under restraint
- 100 alerts issued to the wider sector
