Regulatory Data Handbook 2026 – Fourteenth Edition

Welcome to the fourteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook. Supervisors increasingly expect firms to demonstrate which rules apply, which data supports each obligation, who owns the control and how exceptions are identified and resolved. Policies and implementation programmes must now be supported by records that can withstand regulatory scrutiny.

This edition examines material developments across the European Union, United Kingdom, United States and selected Asia-Pacific jurisdictions. It is written for compliance, regulatory reporting, data, risk and operations practitioners across wholesale capital markets, including teams supporting treasury and funding activities. It will also help RegTech executives understand how regulatory priorities are challenging firms’ data and controls.

The handbook is organised into themes covering artificial intelligence and model governance, operational resilience, regulatory reporting, market structure, financial crime, prudential risk, sustainability, digital assets, institutional investment and individual accountability. Each section connects regulatory change to the data, reporting, governance and control work required of firms.

Each theme opens with a regulatory runway highlighting ten of the biggest moves across the regimes, distinguishing current obligations from 2027 milestones and longer-term developments. Individual entries explain the regulatory position, implementation timetable and practical requirements along with references to official sources. An alphabetical quick look-up provides a direct route to specific regimes. The content reflects developments up to 12 August 2026.

By reading this handbook, you will learn:

• How regulatory priorities are shifting from policy development and implementation towards demonstrable control ownership, reliable data and testable evidence.
• Which major requirements are live, rephased, proposed or approaching across the EU, UK, US and selected Asia-Pacific markets, and where jurisdictional timetables differ.
• How AI governance, operational resilience and third-party oversight are increasing requirements for inventories, lineage, testing, access controls, incident records, human review and accountability.
• How reporting reform, the Common Domain Model and standards including ISO 20022, the Legal Entity Identifier, Unique Product Identifier and Unique Transaction Identifier are reshaping regulatory data management.
• What changes to market structure, transaction reporting, settlement, financial-crime controls and prudential rules mean for data sourcing, calculations, reconciliation and regulatory submissions.
• How developments in digital assets, fund reporting, shareholding disclosure and individual accountability extend evidential obligations across entities, instruments, positions, systems and responsible individuals.

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