RegSensus launches to unify financial compliance monitoring

FundApps and SteelEye have launched RegSensus, a combined regulatory intelligence business that brings together regulatory monitoring, reporting and surveillance for financial institutions.

The launch follows the completion of the companies' merger in September, backed by growth equity investor FTV Capital. RegSensus is building a unified platform to address compliance work that is often handled across separate systems.

Regulatory scrutiny of trading activity has increased in several markets, including Australia, where the corporate regulator has moved to extend restrictions on high-risk contracts for difference sold to retail investors. At the same time, firms are dealing with rule changes in other jurisdictions, including new validation rules for the UK transaction reporting regime and updated US private fund reporting requirements.

RegSensus will combine FundApps' experience in regulatory monitoring with SteelEye's background in trade and communications surveillance. The business serves 400 clients in more than 30 countries, including banks, asset managers, hedge funds and energy firms.

Its platform is built around what it calls a Trusted Regulatory Standard, developed through FundApps' regulatory monitoring work and now being extended into surveillance after the merger. The framework has been shaped by regulatory specialists and validated by clients.

The combined group also plans to use artificial intelligence in compliance processes, particularly for reviewing alerts and handling routine tasks. In an analysis cited by the company, clients using its Result Investigation tool recorded a 25 per cent reduction in disclosure resolution time.

Compliance pressure

Financial institutions are under growing pressure to interpret and apply rules consistently across borders as trading becomes more continuous and reporting obligations expand. Compliance teams often have to monitor market abuse risks, communications oversight, transaction reporting and ownership disclosures through different tools and data sources.

That fragmentation has created an opening for providers promising a more standardised approach to regulatory interpretation. For firms operating across multiple jurisdictions, differences in local rules can raise the risk of inconsistent decisions and add to the volume of manual checks.

Frederic Ceyte, Chief Executive Officer of RegSensus, said: "Investment firms rarely win a mandate on compliance, but plenty lose one on it. They need to be competing on performance and service, not on how they each interpret the same regulations. RegSensus brings much needed standardisation so that the financial industry can stop sinking time into risky, isolated interpretations of global regulations. With those standards in place, and with previously fragmented compliance data coming together, agentic AI can take on more of the manual work and surface insights faster. That's regulatory intelligence. And while AI will transform compliance workflows, the final call stays with the experts."

His comments reflect a broader debate in the compliance technology market over how far automation can be used in areas that remain subject to regulatory judgement. Providers have increasingly focused on using AI to reduce false positives, speed investigations and bring together records from separate monitoring systems, while maintaining human oversight over final decisions.

Investor backing

FTV Capital first invested in FundApps in July 2025 and later provided additional capital to support its merger with SteelEye after the deal was announced in November 2025. The investor has backed more than 150 portfolio companies and said the combined business was built on a rules framework clients could rely on.

Richard Earnshaw, Partner at FTV Capital, said: "AI will reshape compliance, but only on rules and data firms can trust. That's what RegSensus is built on. Its standard is already proven in regulatory monitoring and now extending into surveillance. We'll keep backing the team's investment in agentic AI."

RegSensus has offices in London, New York, Singapore, Bengaluru and Braga. Its staff includes former regulators, legal professionals, software engineers and information security specialists.