REGULATORY TECHNOLOGY
The appliance of science Paul Golden looks at the opportunities for regulatory technology growth in the securities lending space and the aspects of compliance where technology can have the greatest impact in terms of speeding up processes, reducing errors, and keeping pace with regulatory change. Regulatory technology or regtech (a subset of fintech that leverages new technologies such as cloud computing, big data, machine learning and natural language processing to address regulatory challenges within the financial industry) is one of the fastest growing segments of the technology market. A report published earlier this year predicted that the global regtech market would expand from $7.6 billion in 2021 to $19.5 billion by
Securities Finance Americas Guide 2022
2026 across multiple areas including risk and compliance management, identity management, regulatory reporting, fraud management, and regulatory intelligence. When asked which areas of regulatory technology offer opportunities for growth in the securities lending space and the areas of compliance where technology could have the greatest impact in terms of speeding up processes, reducing error and keeping pace
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