Argus Pro Recognised in the 2026 Global State of RegTech Report
13 May 2026
The Global State of RegTech 2026 by Parker & Lawrence Research and RegTech Analyst has named Argus Pro a leader in Compliance Assessment, one of the four subcategories of compliance management examined in the report.
The report is the first annual edition of a new research initiative from Parker & Lawrence Research and RegTech Analyst. It draws on a survey of 300 senior risk and compliance professionals and tracks more than 900 products from over 500 vendors. Argus Pro is featured as a leader in Compliance Assessment.
Recognition validates a position we have held since our founding. Regulators no longer accept documentation as a substitute for performance. Boards no longer accept high maturity scores as a substitute for demonstrable effectiveness. The report makes the point in direct terms.
"Traditional compliance assurance models are breaking. Legacy compliance tools measure whether controls exist, not whether they work. Most maturity assessments and audits do the same thing." — Global State of RegTech 2026, Parker & Lawrence Research and RegTech Analyst
This is the gap that Aegis Compass closes. Our compliance assessment platform looks at whether controls are documented. It separately looks at how those controls perform across roles, locations and seniority. The two views tell very different stories.
A Market Under Pressure
The data in the report will be familiar to anyone running a compliance function.
- Regulators have imposed more than $35bn in fines since 2023.
- Every day in 2025
- $15bn laundered
- 2,000 cyber attacks
- 300 new regulatory notices
- More than 80% of compliance teams still rely on manual processes.
- 62.7% of financial institutions plan to increase RegTech spending in 2026.
The most telling figure sits in the Compliance Management deep dive. Just 11% of firms describe technology as a core part of their compliance management control environment. A decade of RegTech investment has not closed the gap. Compliance management remains the least automated of the major risk domains measured by the report.
$35 bn+
in global regulatory fines since 2023
11%
of firms have a "core control" compliance management technology environment
62.7%
of firms plan to increase RegTech spend in 2026
Source: 2026 Global State of RegTech
The report also picks out a shift every senior compliance leader will recognise. Supervisors are moving away from periodic reviews towards continuous, technology-enabled oversight. Point-in-time assessments are no longer enough. Boards and regulators want ongoing visibility into how controls actually perform.
How Aegis Compass Answers the Brief
The report's framing aligns closely with how we built Aegis Compass.
Questions are anchored to specific regulatory clauses, not generic checklists. Responses are captured anonymously across roles, locations and seniority. Workshop-based reviews miss the variance this approach surfaces. Execution gaps are separated from capability gaps so that remediation is targeted, not blanket. The result is what the report calls "context-aware remediation".
For our clients, that means knowing what to fix first, what to fix next, and why.
"Aegis Compass evaluates both whether controls exist and how well they work in practice, avoiding the false comfort of maturity scores alone." — Global State of RegTech 2026, on Aegis Compass
Three Live Modules, With More To Come
Aegis Compass has three live frameworks. They cover anti-financial crime, cybersecurity and digital operational resilience, and AI Governance. ESG follows.
Each module is built on the same architecture: regulatory mapping, dual scoring, stratified random sampling, anonymous multi-respondent capture, and clause-level traceability from regulatory source to internal response.
Read the Global State of RegTech 2026
The full 2026 Global State of RegTech is published by Parker & Lawrence Research and RegTech Analyst. Argus Pro is profiled in the deep dive on Compliance Management.