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36% of institutions are still in the early stages of financial crime technology adoption — fragmented, under-deployed, or not meaningfully in place at all. True end-to-end financial crime technology solutions remain rare. The market has historically been built around the needs of large institutions, leaving smaller firms to patch together point solutions, manual processes and tools that were never designed for their environment.

Market abuse is rarely visible from a single trade. Behaviours such as spoofing, insider dealing, marking the close and cross-product manipulation only become legible when orders, executions, cancellations, price movement, trader behaviour and venue activity are connected in the right way. That connection depends on data. And data is where most surveillance frameworks start to break down.

Communications supervision has become one of the most complex and consequential areas of market conduct and compliance. For decades, the focus was largely evidential. Firms captured email, voice, chat and messaging data, stored it in archives, and retrieved it when required by regulators, auditors or investigators. That model no longer reflects either the scale of communications risk or the expectations now being placed on firms.

Resilience has become one of the defining risk and compliance themes of the next market cycle. Firms are operating in a more complex risk environment, where technology dependencies, third-party exposure, operational resilience, regulatory obligations, internal controls and AI governance increasingly overlap.

New research from Parker & Lawrence Research and RegTech Analyst estimates the global RegTech market has reached a conservative total addressable market (TAM) of $245.4 billion, reflecting the growing role of technology within modern risk and compliance functions. The findings come from The Global State of RegTech 2026, a new annual research initiative combining global surveys of 300 senior risk and compliance decision-makers and 100 RegTech vendors, alongside market modellin

Parker & Lawrence’s latest survey data suggests what many in the market already sense: financial crime is the risk domain where GenAI is producing the strongest financial upside. Financial crime is the top-ranked area of GenAI impact for almost a third of respondents, and half place it in their top three priorities for value creation. That reflects how quickly the economics of financial crime have outgrown legacy tooling.