Regulation by topic

Publications from 200+ financial regulators worldwide, organized by what they regulate. Every document is summarized in English. Tracking a specific framework? See the regulation trackers (PSD3, MiCA, DORA, Basel III…). Need the country-level state of play? Read the regulatory guides.

Disclosure & Reporting

Regulatory reporting, disclosure and transparency obligations for supervised institutions.

13615 publications

Securities & Capital Markets

Securities issuance, funds, brokers and capital-markets regulation across jurisdictions.

12078 publications

Licensing

Authorization, registration and licensing frameworks for banks, fintechs and financial-service providers.

10106 publications

Capital & Prudential

Capital adequacy, prudential standards, liquidity and Basel-aligned requirements from banking supervisors.

9139 publications

Governance

Corporate-governance, board and senior-management accountability requirements for financial institutions.

6467 publications

Credit & Lending

Credit, lending, digital-lending and loan-classification regulation from banking supervisors worldwide.

5882 publications

AML / CFT

Anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing rules, guidance and risk assessments from financial regulators worldwide.

4721 publications

Payments

Payment systems, e-money, instant payments, remittances and payment-services regulation across jurisdictions.

4483 publications

Consumer Protection

Consumer-protection rules, fair-treatment duties, complaints handling and market conduct in financial services.

4073 publications

Insurance

Insurance and takaful regulation: solvency, conduct and reporting requirements from supervisors worldwide.

3892 publications

Enforcement

Enforcement actions, penalties, license withdrawals and supervisory sanctions against named parties.

2855 publications

KYC & Due Diligence

Customer due diligence, beneficial-ownership and identity-verification requirements from regulators worldwide.

2296 publications

Operational Resilience

Operational-resilience, business-continuity and third-party/outsourcing risk requirements for financial institutions.

1625 publications

Cybersecurity

Information-security, cyber-risk and incident-reporting requirements for financial institutions.

1560 publications

Sanctions

Sanctions designations, compliance guidance and screening obligations issued by regulators and authorities.

1311 publications

Crypto & Digital Assets

Crypto-asset, virtual-asset and VASP regulation: licensing regimes, market rules, tokenization and CBDC frameworks.

1167 publications

Fraud

Fraud-prevention rules, scam warnings and financial-crime guidance from regulators worldwide.

1005 publications

ESG & Sustainable Finance

Sustainability, climate-risk and ESG disclosure requirements from financial regulators worldwide.

779 publications

Financial Inclusion

Financial-inclusion, agent-banking and access-to-finance regulation — a focus area across emerging markets.

597 publications

AI in Finance

Artificial-intelligence and machine-learning guidance and requirements for financial institutions.

185 publications