FinregE Tops Up to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 as RegTech Demand Builds

FinregE, the London-based RegTech vendor, has secured ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, the international information security standard, upgrading from its 2013 version eight months after the global transition window closed. The company announced the achievement on June 18, 2026, framing it as the foundation for a security posture its Tier 1 bank, insurer and asset-manager clients now expect by default. Chief technology officer Amit Madahar described the certification as proof of the firm’s operating discipline and the day-to-day controls behind it.

FinregE’s end-to-end regulatory compliance platform helps regulated firms monitor regulatory change, interpret obligations and link them to policies and controls, and the certification covers the operational backbone behind all of it. What looks like routine paperwork is, in mid-2026, a procurement signal. Banks and asset managers are tightening vendor onboarding, regulators are auditing third-party risk harder, and the RegTech market that FinregE competes in is on track to clear $24 billion this year alone. The certification lands in that environment as much as inside the company itself, and chief operating officer Neil Wands tied it directly to the firm’s next stage of expansion.

What the 2022 Standard Actually Changed

The third edition of ISO/IEC 27001 was published in October 2022 and replaces the 2013 second edition. The 2022 standard carries a longer title that adds “cybersecurity and privacy protection” to what was simply “Information security management systems, Requirements” in 2013. The change signals an explicit widening of the standard’s scope from information security alone to cybersecurity and privacy.

The structural shift sits inside Annex A, the catalogue of control objectives that auditees must implement. The 2013 version organised controls into 14 thematic groups; the 2022 version reorganises them into four attribute-driven themes (organisational, people, physical, technological). Outside Annex A, the clause-level changes are limited to terminology and minor refinements. The new themes are also designed to align more cleanly with ISO/IEC 27002:2022, the companion code-of-practice standard, and that alignment is the largest mechanical difference between the two editions, per the complete walkthrough of the 2022 changes.

The transition window gave certified organisations three years to move. After October 31, 2025, only ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificates remained valid; 2013 certificates expired. That makes the June 2026 cohort of announcements, including FinregE’s, the first wave of post-deadline upgrades rather than a last-minute scramble.

The October 2025 Deadline Most Vendors Just Missed

The transition period for ISO/IEC 27001:2022 ran for three years and closed on October 31, 2025, regardless of when each organisation first earned its 2013 certificate. Certification bodies stopped issuing 2013 certificates during that window and stopped renewing them once it closed, leaving any vendor that had not completed the gap analysis, control re-mapping and audit cycle on paper that no longer stood up in a procurement review. FinregE’s announcement lands eight months after that cut-off. The lag matters less than the fact that the company now holds documentation aligned with the standard its regulated clients are themselves held to.

For vendors still on 2013 paperwork, the next conversation with a Tier 1 bank’s third-party risk team has become a documentation problem first, per the deadline and what the 2022 revision replaced.

AI Scams Are Rewriting the Demand Curve

The compliance case for the upgrade is older than the announcement. The commercial case has caught up. Three quarters of UK consumers, 75%, now say they are worried about AI-powered fraud, up from 24% a year earlier in the same research, according to the CRIF 2026 Banking on Banks report published on June 17, 2026. 40% say banks and insurers are not doing enough to protect them.

UK businesses are responding faster than their European peers. More than three quarters (76%) call cybersecurity investment a business priority, the highest share in Europe, and 42% are already using AI specifically to tackle fraud, again the leading figure across the continent. More than eight in ten of those UK businesses still want human oversight of any AI-led fraud decision, a hedge that explains why demand has shifted toward vendors that combine automation with audited controls. The same research finds that only 31% of UK consumers believe the financial system is well-equipped to deal with the cyber threats now hitting it, per the CRIF 2026 study on UK AI fraud concern.

That gap between rising concern and falling confidence is the demand environment a security-certified RegTech platform walks into. FinregE’s product sits at the seam where client data, regulatory interpretation and reporting automation meet, and any breach there compounds the regulatory exposure of its bank and insurer clients on top of the reputational hit.

• 75% of UK consumers are now worried about AI-powered fraud (CRIF, June 2026)
• 40% say banks and insurers are not doing enough to protect them
• 76% of UK businesses call cybersecurity investment a business priority, the highest share in Europe
• 42% are already using AI specifically to tackle fraud, the highest share across the continent
• 31% of UK consumers believe the financial system is well-equipped to deal with cyber threats

FinregE Frames the Upgrade as Trust

FinregE’s own messaging leans hard on the trust register. Madahar, the company’s chief technology officer, led the announcement with a statement about the seriousness with which the firm holds the responsibility its clients have handed over.

Our clients trust us with their most critical information, and we take that responsibility with the utmost seriousness. It proves that we have the systems and discipline in place to ensure their data is protected by global best practices.

That is the trust message. The next paragraph in the announcement maps the certification to the day-to-day operating claims behind it.

The work behind the certification, per the announcement, was a full audit of the firm’s security controls, internal processes and risk management framework. That scope matches what regulated clients probe during vendor reviews: who has access, how changes are approved, where data sits at rest, how incidents are triaged, and what recovery looks like. The certification is the document a bank’s third-party-risk team can attach to the vendor file.

The upgraded ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standard explicitly broadens the scope from information security alone to information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection, and that wording matters in regulated vendor reviews. A privacy line item was not present in the 2013 title. For an asset manager or payment company whose own regulator now asks about privacy controls, that single addition is the answer to a question that did not need to be answered in 2014. The chief operating officer, Neil Wands, framed the certification as the foundation on which scaling plans will be built.

Why the Client List Matters

The clients FinregE names in the announcement explain why the 2022 upgrade was commercially urgent. Its global roster includes Tier 1 banks, insurance firms, asset managers, payment companies, highly regulated corporates and financial regulators. Every one of those categories now has a procurement gate that filters vendors by the version of their security certification.

The platform itself is broad enough to support that range. FinregE’s compliance software monitors regulatory change across U.S. federal and state regimes covering the SEC, FINRA, CFTC, OCC, Federal Reserve, CFPB, FDIC, FinCEN, NCUA and HUD/FHA, plus parallel UK and European regimes. The breadth is what makes the security posture load-bearing: the platform only stays useful if the data flowing through it stays protected across all of those jurisdictions. The 2022 standard is the single document that says, on paper, that it does.

Where the RegTech Dollars Are Headed

The wider RegTech market that FinregE competes in is on the same trajectory as the certification requirements. The global market was valued at $19.71 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $24.17 billion in 2026, according to the June 2026 RegTech market size and growth forecast from Straits Research. The same research puts the market at $123.36 billion by 2034, a compound annual growth rate of 22.6% across the period.

A separate 2026 study from Parker & Lawrence Research, based on surveys of 300 senior risk and compliance professionals and 100 RegTech vendors, puts the total addressable market for RegTech in financial services alone at more than $200 billion. The gap between the current $24.17 billion run rate and a TAM above $200 billion is the room vendors are competing to fill. Risk and compliance management is the largest application segment inside the market, with anti-money-laundering, regulatory intelligence, identity management and regulatory reporting rounding out the rest of the stack, per a 2026 survey of 300 risk and compliance professionals across financial institutions.

For FinregE specifically, the path through that growth runs through the buyers who already need an audited security posture to add a vendor to their roster. The certification buys the company the right to compete for the spend that the 22.6% CAGR represents, year over year, without each new prospect turning the security conversation into a six-month sales-cycle blocker. That is the procurement math behind the announcement.

• $19.71 billion, 2025 global RegTech market value (Straits Research, June 2026)
• $24.17 billion, 2026 projected market value
• $123.36 billion, 2034 projected market value
• $200 billion+, total addressable market for RegTech in financial services (Parker & Lawrence Research, 2026)
• 22.6%, forecast CAGR, 2026 to 2034

The Vendor Procurement Reset

Wands, FinregE’s chief operating officer, tied the certification directly to the company’s growth plans in his statement on the announcement. He framed the 2022 standard as the foundation on which scaling and service expansion will be built, with security expected to keep pace as the platform adds capabilities. The framing is deliberate: the certification is being positioned as a platform for expansion rather than a one-time accolade. Banks and asset managers evaluating RegTech vendors in 2026 are increasingly using the version of the security standard as a proxy for that scalability.

As FinregE continues to scale its operations and expand its service offerings, this certification will serve as the foundation for continued growth, ensuring that security evolves in lockstep with innovation.

That is also the picture in the wider market. AI-driven fraud has rewritten the conversation UK consumers and businesses are having about their financial providers, and the demand for vendors that can evidence both automation and audited control has gone with it. The same shift shows up across how 170 BFSI capability centers in India are reshaping AI governance, and RegTech vendors like FinregE sit in the same procurement lane those centers are now buying from.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does ISO/IEC 27001:2022 actually cover?

The 2022 edition is titled Information security, cybersecurity and privacy protection, Information security management systems, Requirements. The change from the 2013 title adds cybersecurity and privacy as explicit scope areas. The reorganised Annex A groups controls by theme rather than by domain, in line with the companion ISO/IEC 27002:2022 standard.

When did organisations have to finish transitioning from the 2013 version?

The transition window for ISO/IEC 27001:2022 closed on October 31, 2025. After that date, ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certificates were no longer valid.

Why does a RegTech vendor specifically need this certification?

A RegTech platform handles the regulatory data of banks, insurers, asset managers, payment companies and regulators, and each of those client types has its own third-party-risk review process. ISO/IEC 27001:2022 is the document those reviewers ask for to confirm the vendor’s security controls and operating discipline. Without it, the vendor is filtered out before the product evaluation begins.

How large is the RegTech market in 2026?

The global RegTech market was valued at $19.71 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $24.17 billion in 2026, according to Straits Research’s June 2026 forecast. The same research projects the market at $123.36 billion by 2034, at a 22.6% compound annual growth rate. A separate 2026 study from Parker & Lawrence Research puts the total addressable market for RegTech in financial services alone at more than $200 billion. Both estimates point to a multi-year capacity buildout in vendor capacity and product depth.