Venture capital firms all over the world are investing in the regtech (regulatory technology or IT) sector in their droves. About half of the most recent regtech news, however, comes from the UK.

GT, the private banking and asset management group owned by the Princely House of Liechtenstein, has chosen Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX to provide its regulatory reporting and risk software for its Asian operations. In March, BBVA’s subsidiary in the UK had already opted for OneSumX solution for regulatory reporting and liquidity risk management.

HSBC is reportedly incorporating Ayasdi’s (an AI startup) technology to automate some of its compliance processes and to tackle money laundering. By using artificial intelligence (AI), the bank aims to save costs in efficient and automated data analysis, which will reorganise its compliance efforts. After a 12-week trial, Ayasdi's software apparently reduced 'false positives' by one-fifth.

Deutsche Börse, meanwhile, is building a so-called 'regulatory reporting hub.' This is part of its effort to get ready for MiFID II. It has chosen SmartStream RDU as its partner, with a view to using its reference data software.

As market participants prepare to comply with a raft of new post-trade reporting rules in Europe, North America and the Asia/Pacific half of the world, Deutsche Börse and Illuminate Financial Management have 'co-led' in a US$5 million (€4.258 million) Series A funding round in RegTek.Solutions of New York, which came into being this year and which provides control and compliance software for trade and transaction reporting.

For Deutsche Börse this investment will be managed by DB1 Ventures. Holger Wohlenberg of DB and Mark Beeston of Illuminate Financial will become non-executive board members of RegTek.Solutions.

Securrency of New York, a combined fintech/regtech platform that facilitates the free trading of previously illiquid asset classes, has received an injection of investment from with Humaniq, an Ethereum-based Blockchain firm.

Australian regtech firms are producing good software but are stuck in a small market. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is determined to push ahead with developments, but none of Australia's four main financial regulators has levied any large fines on financial firms for anything that can be offset by better IT. London remains the compliance capital of the world and is doing far better in regtech also.

Back in Britain, the Bunker, an IT firm with a poorly designed website, has built a complimentary "fintech sandbox," to which it refers as a dedicated environment specifically designed to support growing fintechs develop securely, swiftly and compliantly, to get to market faster and give them confidence and credibility. Its propaganda states: "The evolving regulatory landscape and demand for robust risk management means fintechs must be able to demonstrate they understand the security requirements and compliance mandates of their customers. The Bunker understands all of this – so you don’t have to."

Webhelp, the expansionist business process outsourcing company based in London, has acquired a French regtech firm called GreenPoint, a pioneer in the digital and mobile management of know-your-customer (KYC) processes, the digital processing of customers’ records and customer on-boarding. The company says that it is growing rapidly because demand for compliant digital and mobile IT for  customer on-boarding and identification is increasing in parallel with ever-mounting regulatory requirements whose aim is to protect consumers upon subscription to a company or service.

By 2020, European banks will be spending more than one billion euros annually on their KYC management, according to the strategy consulting firm of Roland Berger. With this in mind, Webhelp believes that this acquisition will make it better able to service regulated clients and will solidify its regtech business process outsourcing business by creating Webhelp KYC Services which is (and shall remain) located at GreenPoint’s office in Issy-Les-Moulineaux in France. Hervé de Kermadec and Benoît Dumortier are in charge there. Webhelp recently opened a new office in the Latvian capital of Riga and acquired a Dutch voice and speech technology business called Telecats. Last year it acquired a social media monitoring and strategy business called Netino and a firm of mobile customer experience experts called MyStudioFactory.

Onfido, a machine-learning regtech firm based in London, San Francisco and a corporate park in India called the DLF Cyber City, has received a US$30 million (£22.4 million) shot of investment from Microsoft and other venture capitalists such as Crane Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures. Three Oxford graduates set it up to specialise in identity verification using ID record check, document check and facial check software.

Lastly, R3's Anglo-American team of financial industry veterans, technologists and cryptocurrency men has struck a deal with the UK's Financial Conduct Authority, RBS and another unnamed bank. Together, they have built a new app for the regulatory reporting of mortgage transactions.