88% of financial services firms in the $101-500M range increased cybersecurity spending in the last 12 months.

37% of financial services firms plan to invest or upgrade in network and perimeter security in 2026.

40% of enterprises plan to increase cybersecurity staffing.

11% of RIAs significantly decreased their IT spend last year.

51% of financial services firms plan to invest or upgrade in cloud adoption, migration and security in 2026.

41% of financial services firms plan to invest or upgrade in IT infrastructure modernization in 2026.

39% of financial services firms plan to invest or upgrade in multi-factor authentication and identity access management controls in 2026.

36% of financial services firms plan to invest or upgrade in backup and disaster recovery solutions in 2026.

57% of RIAs increased security budgets.

78% of financial services firms increased cybersecurity spending in the past year.

34% of firms believe there is insufficient OT budget.

More than half (51%) of UK finance leaders are preparing a significant uplift in cyber investment next year.

61% of all organizations reported modest increases (≤15%) in their API security budgets.

10% of organizations raised their API security budgets by 0–5%.

Only 7% of organizations reported increases in their API security budgets greater than 21%.

25% of respondents pointed to budget limitations as the primary barrier to implementing a strong API security program.

11% of organizations said their API security budget did not increase.

Nearly all (94%) UK finance leaders surveyed plan to increase cyber investment over the next year.

Concerns about budgets decreased from 40% to 37%.

22% of organizations raised their API security budgets by 6–10%.