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Seven 2026 RegTech Outlooks for Compliance, Reporting and Financial Crime
As 2026 gets underway, RegTechs are positioning for a shift in regulatory emphasis from refits, rewrites and attestations to demonstrable evidence. Across the jurisdictions supervisors are shifting from consultation and rulemaking into validation and testing whether firms have operationalised reforms through governance, high-quality data, defensible controls and credible evidence. The seven RegTechs that follow have…
UK Equity Consolidated Tape and EU MiFIR – Two Data Regimes, One Control Problem
The UK’s proposed equity consolidated tape is framed as a response to long-standing fragmentation in equity market data. By aggregating post-trade information and an attributed best bid and offer across trading venues, the tape is intended to provide a single, standardised view of UK equity trading. At the same time, transaction reporting under the Markets…
Kaizen RegTech Group Refines Leadership Roles to Support Continued Growth
Kaizen RegTech Group has adjusted leadership responsibilities within its existing structure as the business scales across regulatory reporting and related services. Dario Crispini remains Group Chief Executive Officer, retaining responsibility for overall strategy and growth, while continuing to lead regulatory reporting product development and innovation and staying closely engaged with clients and market initiatives. As…
World Federation of Exchanges Urges Regulators to Balance Quantum Risk with Near-Term Cyber and AI Threats
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has called on regulators to balance long-term quantum computing risks against more immediate operational challenges in the financial sector. The association’s press release highlights a substantial gap between regulatory expectations for early preparation and the industry’s current prioritisation of nearer-term threats such as generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and cyber…
Basel III / FRTB: One Framework, Multiple Timelines, Mounting Pain for Global Firms
For much of the past decade, Basel III has been discussed as a global regulatory reform programme moving at uneven speed, but broadly in the same direction. The UK Prudential Regulation Authority’s confirmation of its Basel 3.1 timetable brings welcome clarity for firms operating in the UK market, yet it also underlines a deeper reality:…
FCA Extends UK Equity Consolidated Tape Consultation
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has extended the deadline for its consultation on the proposed framework for the UK Equity Consolidated Tape. The consultation period for CP25/31 will now close on 13 February 2026, providing market participants with additional time to respond. CP25/31 sets out the regulatory architecture for a UK equity consolidated tape, including…
Inside the Uneven Geography of AML Enforcement Outcomes in 2025 – Fenergo Analysis
Fenergo’s latest Global enforcement analysis shows total AML, KYC, sanctions and customer due diligence penalties declining to $3.8 billion in 2025, down from $4.6 billion in 2024 and $6.6 billion in 2023, marking a second consecutive year of decline. Beneath that headline, regional outcomes moved in sharply different directions. North American fines fell by 58%,…
Funding Regulatory Oversight: 2026 Budgets for US Supervisors
On January 11, 2026, the House Appropriations Committee released conferenced versions of two major fiscal year 2026 spending measures: the Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) bill and the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs (NSRP) bill. While appropriations announcements rarely attract sustained market attention, these packages carry direct implications for how financial…
Diginex Labour Rights Expert Acquisition Highlights ESG Data Shift to Risk
Sustainability data and RegTech provider Diginex’s recent acquisition of The Remedy Project labour and human rights advisory illustrates how ESG is transforming from an investment strategy to a risk mitigation objective among financial companies. The London-based company, which last year purchased sustainability data and analytics provider Matter DK, anticipates that the The Remedy Project’s expertise…
Introducing RegPass: A New Agentic Paradigm for Regulatory Change Management
After more than a decade shaped by document aggregation, workflow portals, and rule-mapping engines, a third generation of regulatory intelligence platforms is beginning to emerge. These systems move beyond collecting and classifying regulatory updates. Instead, they attempt something more ambitious: to understand, model and reason about a firm’s actual business operations, and to connect regulatory…