Fifth annual RegTech100 list highlights the tech companies transforming regulatory processes in financial services

Banks are investing heavily into AI to automate highly manual regulatory tasks, support digital onboarding processes and monitor for fraud

The new RegTech100 list for 2022 is launched today. Now in its fifth edition, the list recognizes the world’s most innovative technology solution providers that offer products and services in the areas of compliance, risk management, information security and financial crime.

The RegTech (regulatory technology) industry has experienced rapid growth over the last two years as financial institutions dealt with rising tide of regulatory changes and rules updates brought by remote working and increased use of digital channels post Covid-19. As a result, RegTech spending by banks and other highly regulated institutions is projected to exceed $130bn by 2025.

Thus, it’s not surprising this year’s process to identify the 100 RegTech innovation leaders was more competitive than ever. A panel of analysts and industry experts voted from a longlist of nearly 1,200 companies produced by RegTech Analyst, a specialist research division on media company FinTech Global. Sixty new companies entered the RegTech100 for 2022 and the finalists were recognized for their innovative use of technology to solve a significant industry problem, or to generate efficiency improvements across the compliance function.

RegTech Analyst director of research Mariyan Dimitrov said, “Banks and other financial institutions are investing heavily into AI capabilities to automate highly manual regulatory tasks, support digital onboarding processes and monitor for fraudulent activity. The RegTech100 list helps them filter through all the vendors in the market by highlighting the leading companies in sectors such as identity verification, risk management, communications monitoring, information security and financial crime prevention.”

Some of the world’s leading companies in the 2022 RegTech100 include:

6clicks: AI-powered GRC solution which helps businesses and advisors automate risk and compliance programs in hours

ACA Group: the leading governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) advisor in financial services

ACTICO: leading international provider of software for intelligent automation and digital decisioning to manage risk, fulfil regulatory obligations and prevent fraud

Armadillo: uses RPA to deliver information on 420m companies and 5bn individuals including PEPs, Sanctions & ID verification for KYC/EDD

b-fine: RegTech scale-up leading financial institutions towards the next era of regulatory reporting

eflow: leading provider of regulatory compliance software for best execution, market abuse, regulatory reporting and transaction reporting in financial services

Elliptic: offers blockchain analytics data and solutions to crypto businesses and financial institutions to manage financial crime risk in crypto

Eventus Systems: provider of trade surveillance and market risk solutions for capital markets organizations

Hummingbird: RegTech platform offering case management tools and automated SAR filing capabilities to help organisations fight financial crime

Keepabl: intuitive Privacy Management SaaS automating your Privacy Governance, providing powerful analysis and insights, and simplifying ongoing compliance for financial institutions

Know Your Customer: provides digital onboarding solutions that radically simplify, improve and streamline AML compliance for regulated organisations worldwide

LeapXpert: enables enterprises to compliantly embrace the use of messaging applications such as WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, Signal, LINE and SMS

MyComplianceOffice: best-of-breed compliance monitoring solution used by hundreds of compliance teams worldwide to reduce the risk of misconduct

Muinmos: award-winning, AI powered client onboarding platform which onboards any client – retail, professional or institutional – globally within 3 minutes

Napier: Intelligent AI-powered platform which transforms financial crime compliance from legal obligation to competitive edge for regulated companies

QuantaVerse from AML RightSource: a comprehensive AML platform that eradicates false positives, automates investigations and uncovers risk by discerning anomalies that current approaches cannot

Red Oak Compliance: the advertising compliance review software of choice in the financial services industry

Regnology (formerly BearingPoint RegTech): international provider of innovative regulatory, risk, and supervisory technology solutions and services across the regulatory value chain

Smarsh: provider of cloud-native electronic communications capture, retention, and oversight solutions for industries with strict compliance and e-discovery requirements

Symphony AyasdiAI: empowers financial institutions with a complete picture of third-party behaviours to discover crime and improve their risk posture

Trulioo: leading provider of real-time identity and business verification for 5bn people and 330m companies worldwide through a single API

Vneuron: global provider of compliance solutions for financial institutions and fintech companies covering the whole range of AML/KYC compliance requirements

VoxSmart: helps businesses see their communications data in a clear and compliant way to effectively mitigate business risks

A full list of the RegTech100 for 2022 and detailed information about each company is available to download for free at www.RegTech100.com.