Federal prosecutors have signalled a meaningful recalibration of white-collar enforcement priorities entering 2026. Five patterns are reshaping how cases are charged, tried, and resolved — each merits close attention from counsel acting for both individuals and institutions. First, the Department of Justice has narrowed its corporate-resolution menu, reducing the availability of non-prosecution agreements for repeat issues and tightening cooperation-credit eligibility. Second, parallel criminal and regulatory exposure is increasingly the norm. Third, individual accountability remains the lodestar. Fourth, white-collar defendants are increasingly electing trial rather than plea where the government’s evidence is technical or circumstantial. Fifth, defence strategy now routinely incorporates a public-facing dimension that earlier generations of trial counsel did not contemplate.