RegTech Summit London 2026: 4 takeaways on the shift to continuous monitoring. Four takeaways from RegTech Summit London 2026 on continuous monitoring, AI accountability, data readiness Continuous monitoring, data readiness and accountable AI dominated the day in London. Here are its four biggest takeaways, and what they mean for KYB teams across Asia-Pacific. Key takeaways from regtech Summit London 2026. * Monitoring is going continuous. Supervision is getting more timely, and periodic re-KYB leaves teams blind between cycles. * AI has moved from pilot to production. Accountability for AI decisions is now the open question. * Data readiness is the real constraint, not AI capability. * Humans stay in the loop. AI drives efficiency; people make the judgement calls. On 1 October, AsiaVerify joined compliance, data and technology leaders at A-Team Group's RegTech Summit London. From the opening keynote to the closing roundtables, one idea kept coming back: compliance is moving from periodic checks to continuous monitoring. Coming from a business verification company focused on Asia Pacific, AsiaVerify were struck by how closely the conversations in London mirror what its clients face across the globe. Monitoring is now continuous, not periodic. For AsiaVerify, the standout session was Andrew Pinnington's keynote on accurate, complete and timely reporting in the era of data-driven supervision. Supervision is becoming more timely, and expectations of firms are following. His message was clear: "Assurance and control are continuous, not run once per quarter." - Andrew Pinnington, Chief Customer Officer, Novatus The question he left the room with - is the one every compliance team should ask: is your data controlled continuously, or checked periodically? The theme ran throughout the whole day. The first panel, on AI in regulatory compliance, explored the move from periodic reporting to always-on compliance, and perpetual KYC was the topic of one of the closing roundtables. This is the gap Perpetual KYB was built to close. It sits alongside your onboarding and periodic KYB review, providing continuous monitoring official registry data across APAC markets. When a registry change is detected, your team receives a categorised alert that shows not just that a company changed, but what type of change it was, across nine categories from Ownership and Officers to Status. No registry change means no alert and no wasted analyst time. AI in compliance has moved past the pilot stage. The tone this year was practical. That first panel, with speakers from BTIG, Dreadnought Solutions and Behavox, made it clear that the proof-of-concept era is over. Firms are moving AI into production-grade compliance workflows, and the question has shifted from "can we?" to "who is accountable?" Firms are using AI, and so are regulators. Supervisors are applying data analytics to spot reporting anomalies and control weaknesses, sometimes before firms see them. One Innovation Spotlight pitch put it bluntly: regulators are already using AI to check firms' financial promotions. The message for compliance teams is to get ahead of that scrutiny by finding and fixing their own data gaps before a supervisor does. Data readiness, not AI, is the real constraint. The A-Team Group research update, presented by Andrew Delaney and Mark Davies, landed on a message AsiaVerify heard repeated all day: the main constraint is not AI capability, it is data readiness. On the data consistency panel, moderated by Deutsche Bank's Dawd Haque, the regulatory direction was summed up simply: require less, but better. The bar is data quality. Speakers also argued that data quality matters more than pulling everything into one place, and that architecture teams are too often overlooked in favour of business priorities. Many firms are still underusing AI, and the gap is widening between those that get their data foundations right and those that don't. For anyone verifying businesses in Asia, data readiness has an extra layer as official registries publish in different languages and formats. That is the problem its KYB solutions is built around. It connects directly to official government registries across 14 APAC markets. Compliance teams get an audit-ready trail and decision-ready data before any AI model or analyst touches it. Humans stay in the loop. The panel on managing unstructured data in compliance brought a welcome dose of realism. AI helps with efficiency, but it is not the final answer. Not every compliance issue is black and white, and human judgement remains essential. Next, Chrissy Hill's keynote, The convergence nobody has budgeted for, put that question at its sharpest: as agentic AI moves compliance from periodic to continuous, who is ultimately accountable when an AI agent makes a decision? This matches how AsiaVerify think about AI at AsiaVerify. Its role is to give compliance teams accurate, explainable, registry-sourced data and categorised change signals, so the people making decisions can make them with confidence. Also on the radar. A few other themes worth flagging: * Quantum risk to old records. In her keynote, Chrissy Hill warned that "harvest now, decrypt later" makes long-retention regulatory data a security risk, not just a cryptography challenge. * The end of the overnight window. She also noted that as digital assets and real-time settlement spread, compliance controls lose the overnight buffer they relied on to detect and intervene. * Smarter surveillance. The surveillance panel looked at machine learning models that catch layering and spoofing patterns static thresholds miss, with explainable AI to justify alerts and cut false positives. Looking ahead. Leaving London, its main takeaway is that compliance is moving from periodic checks to continuous monitoring, whether firms are ready or not, and supervisors are already heading that way. The firms that come out ahead will be the ones that fix their data foundations, keep people accountable for AI-driven decisions, and stop relying on periodic snapshots when risk moves faster than review cycles. If you'd like to talk about how continuous monitoring could work across your APAC entity portfolio, please get in touch. AsiaVerify'd be happy to set up a time. Ready to See It in Action? Smarter Verification, Faster Compliance Book a 20-min demo and see how AsiaVerify accelerates onboarding, reduces false positives, and keeps you audit-ready.

Xapien integrates AsiaVerify registry data into its due diligence reports. 14th Aug 2026 AsiaVerify and Xapien have partnered: AsiaVerify is powering Xapien's dynamic due diligence platform with Asian company, shareholder, ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO), and sanctions data. For any company operating in Asia, analysts now can access and see the official filed record, without a separate search and manual reconciliation, helping compliance, research and onboarding teams work faster where their exposure crosses borders. Finding accurate ownership information takes local knowledge, particularly across Asia, where public records are uneven and access to official company data varies by jurisdiction. A single company can appear under its native-script name and several English spellings of it, and the shareholder named on its filing is often another company registered somewhere else, with the person in control three or four layers further up. Analysts close those gaps by hand, and the completeness of the file comes down to the time available. Through this partnership, Xapien users gain access to more than 450M+ entities across 11 Asian markets, taken directly from government registries. Each search runs against the native-script registered name alongside the English form, so a Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese company can be matched to its own filing however its name has been spelled. Xapien handles the local language and the local registry, and the team reads one report. "Verified company and ownership information is the foundation of any credible risk decision, and across Asia that information sits with each market's own registry. We built AsiaVerify to make those records accessible at scale in the languages they are filed in. Working with Xapien brings them to the compliance and research teams who depend on them daily and we are delighted to be partnering with the Xapien team on this." - Adam Graham, Head of Commercial at AsiaVerify "Reliable due diligence comes from triangulating the full span of data available on a subject, and a gap in one set weakens everything read against it. AsiaVerify extends Xapien reports into registries that are hard to reach, so a search on an Asian company returns the filed record on the first pass and the analyst's time goes into the decision itself, not digging up registry data." - Zach Rothstein, Chief Strategy & Partnerships Officer at Xapien About AsiaVerify AsiaVerify is the corporate verification and risk intelligence layer for cross-border commerce in Asia, delivering trusted company, ownership, and risk insights from real-time registry data through to decision-ready assessment for global organisations. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Singapore, AsiaVerify is ISO 27001:2022 certified and was named in the Chartis RiskTech100 2026. About Xapien Xapien is setting a new standard in enterprise due diligence in today's evolving risk landscape. With unparalleled accuracy and unprecedented performance anchored by tech innovation, Xapien's AI-powered platform provides complete visibility of third-party risk across any business's ecosystem without sacrificing commercial speed. The firm, founded by deep technology experts with decades of experience in intelligence and financial crime, is trusted by the world's largest companies, notable consulting firms and highly-regarded philanthropic/non-profit organisations. Experience Xapien for yourself. Book your personalised live demo. Jump on a 30-minute demo with one of its platform specialists, and see how Xapien goes beyond manual research and database checks to help you move faster, with confidence. Xapien needs the information you provide to contact you about its products and services. You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time. For more information please review its Privacy Policy.

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