AI-powered compliance is no longer a pitch deck fantasy. With record funding, new regulatory mandates, and agentic systems that actually work, 2026 is shaping up as RegTech's inflection year. There's a particular kind of validation that comes when the money follows the mission. For years, RegTech, the application of technology to regulatory compliance, has occupied an awkward middle ground: too important to ignore, too niche to excite mainstream investors, and too fragmented

Australia's corporate regulator removed 11,964 investment scam and phishing websites in 2025, a 90% increase on the prior year, yet scam losses still reached $837.7 million across the twelve months, according to data released today by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the National Anti-Scam Centre . The f igures expose a compounding dynamic: takedown capacity is scaling, but so is the threat. Total scam losses across all categories reached $2.18

7 April 2026. RegTech is having its biggest week in years. With DORA enforcement heating up, the EU AI Act's August deadline bearing down, and AI-powered compliance platforms slashing false positives by 70%, the regulatory technology sector is moving from "nice to have" to "non-negotiable." Here's everything you need to know. There's a running joke in compliance departments: the only thing growing faster than the regulatory burden is the budget to manage it. But this week, t

Australia's primary securities exchange has been ordered to hold $150 million in additional net tangible assets and submit to a comprehensive governance restructure after a nine-month independent inquiry found t hat ASX compromised the resilience of critical market infrastructure to sustain high shareholder returns. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission published the Inquiry Panel's Final Report on April 2, 2026, following an interim report and a strategic r