UK FinRegTech Industry
Explore the UK’s FinRegTech industry, where companies are transforming financial compliance with advanced technology, real-time data and AI-driven solutions. From automated regulatory reporting to intelligent risk monitoring and financial crime detection, these businesses are reshaping how financial institutions stay compliant in a fast-moving regulatory environment.
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What is FinRegTech?
What is the FinRegTech sector?
FinRegTech stands for Financial Regulatory Technology. It is the industry focused on using software, data and AI to help financial institutions meet regulatory requirements more efficiently and accurately.
Banks, insurers, asset managers and FinTech firms operate in one of the most heavily regulated environments in the economy. They must comply with anti-money laundering rules, sanctions regimes, consumer protection laws, ESG disclosure requirements and capital adequacy frameworks. Regulation is complex, constantly evolving and often different across jurisdictions. Managing this manually is slow, expensive and prone to error. FinRegTech exists to solve that problem.
FinRegTech companies build tools that automate compliance processes, monitor regulatory updates in real time, detect suspicious transactions, verify customer identity, manage risk exposure and generate regulatory reports. Instead of relying on spreadsheets and fragmented legacy systems, financial institutions can use integrated platforms that provide visibility, auditability and speed.
The industry sits at the intersection of Financial Services and advanced technology. It overlaps with AI, data analytics, cybersecurity and risk technology. Importantly, FinRegTech businesses often do not fit neatly into traditional industrial classifications. They may look like software providers, consultancies or financial services firms, but in reality they combine elements of all three.
As regulation continues to increase and financial services become more digital, the role of FinRegTech becomes more critical. It enables innovation while maintaining trust, stability and transparency in financial markets. In short, FinRegTech is the infrastructure that keeps modern finance compliant and resilient.
FinRegTech sector summary
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Here are the key facts about the FinRegTech sector. The sector has a turnover of £33.0bn currently, has received £9.9bn of investment and the sector is growing at 19.7% per year.
FinRegTech verticals
Our industry data goes deep. See the top verticals and specialisms making waves in the UK FinRegTech industry today.
Our FinRegTech RTIC is made up of 9 individual verticals. The top verticals in this sector include General Compliance, and Financial Crime/AML Compliance. You can find out more about the verticals by downloading our RTIC report, or by signing up for a free trial of The Data City platform.
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RTIC0104 FinRegTech *New 1372 companies
FinRegTech (financial regulatory technology). Made in partnership with Innovate Finance. This RTIC maps the UK’s FinRegTech sector, comprising companies that develop innovative technologies designed to help financial institutions navigate, automate, and analyse the UK’s increasingly complex regulatory environment.
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FinRegTech: AI197 companies
RegTech AI, any sub-sector in FinRegTech as long as the companies in this vertical provide RegTech AI solutions including AI assurance
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FinRegTech: ESG – KYE182 companies
Regulatory technology to help organisations manage, monitor, and report on ESG related compliance obligations. It combines sustainability principles with automation and data analytics to meet growing regulatory and stakeholder demands.This can also be done though the us of Earth Observation (EO)
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FinRegTech: Emerging Domains67 companies
Digital Assets Compliance: Crypto, NFTs, MiCA regulations Consumer Duty Compliance: Product governance, customer communication monitoring This includes AML for crypto.
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FinRegTech: Financial Crime/AML Compliance217 companies
Solutions for real time transaction monitoring and auditing to identify suspicious activity and transactions that breach anti-money laundering rules, counter-terrorism financing or payments regulations.
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FinRegTech: GDPR CCPA208 companies
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Companies in this vertical will help with others remaining compliant with GDPR and like laws Companies in this vertical can also provide Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
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FinRegTech: General Compliance813 companies
Platforms and workflow systems that companies use to gather, monitor and maintain their regulatory information (this includes horizon scanning) as well as, tools help firms capture and put into practice updates to regulatory obligations or requirements.
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FinRegTech: KYC – CDD169 companies
Process of verifying customer identities and assessing their risk profiles. As well as analysing customer data to determine the level of scrutiny required.
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FinRegTech: Regulatory Reporting216 companies
Technology to collect, validate, and submit required compliance and financial data to regulators.
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FinRegTech: Tax compliance60 companies
Companies automating and streamlining the processes required for organisations to comply with tax regulations across different jurisdictions. This can be done though the use of agentic AI.
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FinRegTech industry growth
Based on a growth rate of 19.7%, we expect that this sector could be worth £49.0bn by 2027. Below you can see our forecast of the growth of the sector.
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