A total of $5.4bn was issued in fines globally during 2025, showing the significant financial damages firms can face for missing or mismanaging their compliance requirements. Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is a fundamental part of modern digital compliance programmes to help reduce the risk of errors.
The global regulatory landscape continues to gain in complexity, making it tough for firms to manage all their requirements, especially if they grow internationally and have to manage varying requirements to similar control frameworks. While firms are digitalising their infrastructure to make compliance efficient, managing many disjointed tools that span teams and functions can only add to the challenges compliance teams are facing. GRC solutions are there to help bring greater order.
GRC tools are designed to collate overarching corporate policies to help them better manage risk and compliance. GRC-focused RegTech solutions help to improve this, with automated tools, such as document and policy management, regulatory horizon scanning and reporting tasks. The goal is to save time for professionals by reducing tedious manual workloads as well as reduce the chance for errors. A recent survey from Hyperproof found that 50% of respondents managing risk ad hoc experienced a breach in 2025, this was compared to 27% with an integrated, automated system.
There is a significant market opportunity for GRC RegTech solutions, leading to a highly competitive market. A report from Mordor Intelligence claimed the enterprise GRC market is projected to grow from $23.6bn in 2026 to $42.1bn by 2031. Supporting this, A report from Hyperproof claimed that 91% of the GRC professionals it surveyed noted their firm has a centralised team to manage GRC, and 63% anticipate their budgets to increase over the next 12-24 months.
With that in mind, here are 8 of the leading GRC solutions worth considering:
Company Overview
ACA Group
Founded: 2002
Subsectors: Onboarding Verification, Communications Monitoring, Transaction Monitoring, Cybersecurity Information Security, Risk Management, Reporting
Regions of Operations: EU, United States, UAE
Who does it serve: Financial services sector, including asset managers, investment advisers, hedge funds, private markets, investment companies, broker-dealers, securities brokers, and wealth managers
What it does: ACA Group is recognised as a leading advisor in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) for the financial services sector. The firm is known for its innovative blend of advisory and managed services, distribution solutions, and analytics. Its ComplianceAlpha® regulatory technology platform, supported by the expertise of former regulators and practitioners, provides a deep understanding of the global regulatory environment.
ComplianceAlpha, an award-winning platform, is transforming surveillance, risk, and compliance management for over 1,200 top financial services firms globally. By integrating compliance activities, surveillance, testing, analytics, and archiving into one platform. ComplianceAlpha gives Chief Compliance Officers a comprehensive view of risks and behaviours across their organisations, enabling more effective and efficient management of compliance obligations.
Key features:
- AML Risk Management
- AI Risk and Governance
- Integrated Risk and Policy Management
Copla
Founded: 2023
Subsectors: Cybersecurity Information Security, Risk Management, Reporting, Compliance Management
Regions of Operations: Global
Who does it serve: FinTech, Insurance
What it does:
Copla is transforming how organisations manage compliance, shifting it from a periodic tick-box activity to an ongoing, collaborative element of daily operations. Unlike traditional compliance tools designed for annual audits, Copla ensures organisations are always prepared. The platform steers teams through intelligent workflows, automates evidence collection, and identifies emerging risks such as shadow IT or control gaps before they become issues.
Developed by seasoned CISOs with experience across various industries, Copla translates complex frameworks—including ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA, PCI DSS and others—into practical, actionable tasks. Each control is linked to real-world security practices, so compliance efforts enhance rather than detract from security outcomes. Copla enables organisations of all sizes to keep pace with changing regulations while improving internal coordination and accountability.
Key features:
- Cross-Framework Governance and Control Mapping
- Copla Vendor Risk Management
- Automated compliance management
CUBE
Founded: 2011
Subsectors: Risk Management, Compliance Management
Regions of Operations: Global
Who does it serve: Banking, Asset management, Insurance, Payments, FinTech, Technology, Corporations
What it does:
CUBE is a global leader in automated regulatory intelligence and regulatory change and control management. Its unified RegPlatform™, strengthened by the acquisitions of Acin and Kodex AI, is the industry’s first end-to-end compliance, risk and agentic AI platform. CUBE serves 1,000 customers globally, including 40% of Tier 1 financial institutions, helping them navigate an increasingly complex and fast-moving regulatory landscape. RegPlatform™ integrates seamlessly into global environments, mapping regulatory obligations directly to a firm’s policies, controls and processes.
When rules change, CUBE automatically identifies what’s relevant, pinpoints the differences and sends clear, actionable updates to the right teams, turning compliance and risk from a reactive burden into a proactive, AI-enabled capability. CUBE also leads an industry collaboration initiative with Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, J.P. Morgan and Lloyds Banking Group to reduce compliance costs and elevate risk standards. This creates an anonymised peer network that enables firms to benchmark processes and best practice.
Key features:
- Global regulatory coverage
- Enterprise-grade compliance management
- AI-powered compliance automation
MCO (MyComplianceOffice)
Founded: 2008
Subsectors: Onboarding Verification (AML/KYC/CDD), Transaction Monitoring, Risk Management, Reporting, Compliance Management
Regions of Operations: Global
Who does it serve: Financial institutions
What it does:
MCO is the only integrated financial services compliance solution that combines governance of the regulated activities of the company, employees and third parties with robust obligation management.
MCO has built passion and proficiency for compliance automation into every product, empowering clients of all sizes to maximize technology to minimize compliance risk.
Available as a unified suite or à la carte, MCO’s easy-to-use and extensible SaaS based solutions get firms up and running quickly and cost-efficiently.
MCO’s “Know Your” solution suites are built on the dynamic MyComplianceOffice platform. Its capabilities enable comprehensive monitoring and reporting, workflow-directed task management and real-time exception alerts via a simple and intuitive interface.
MyComplianceOffice features sophisticated hierarchy management and integrated data sets, including global company and security master of public and private companies, limiting the need for “swivel chair compliance” across multiple disconnected systems. MyComplianceOffice easily integrates with other systems including HR, operations and CRMs.
Key features:
- Third-Party Risk Assessment and Management
- Conduct Risk Management
- Compliance Risk Manager
Norm AI
Founded: 2023
Subsectors: GRC, Compliance management, Content Review
Regions of Operations: US
Who does it serve: Financial services
What it does:
Norm AI is designed to transform legal and compliance into a strategic advantage, helping institutions move faster, reduce risk and unlock growth with legal and compliance AI. The company turns laws, regulations and policies into AI agents, by breaking down the documents and encoding the rules into the agents. These can then help companies to improve their legal and compliance workflows through encoded their expert judgement, as well as the firm’s nuanced preferences and tone standards.
Multi-agent systems can analyse text, video and audio content from global regulatory frameworks and Norm’s regulatory library continuously updates as laws and rules change in the market. The platform also consolidates all current disclosures into a single governed library, offering a single, trusted reference for every review. Other notable features of the Norm AI offering include a centralised fact bank and compliance operations and governance tools that support multi-stage workflows with customisable intake and tagging, record retention and audit trails.
Key features:
- AI agent-powered content review
- Centralised disclosure management
- Automatically generated evidence-backed responses
RiskSmart
Founded: 2020
Subsectors: Risk Management, Regulatory Reporting, GRC
Regions of Operations: United Kingdom
Who does it serve: Banks, Retail, Law firms, Payment & e-money, Pensions, Technology & software, Energy & utilities, Professional services, Financial services
What it does:
RiskSmart is an all-new risk management platform. It sounds simple, doesn’t it? That’s because its purpose is. RiskSmart is not just here to make the lives of risk professionals – who have been historically underserved – easier. It is here to help them excel at their work, allowing them to gain the recognition they deserve and taking their business’s risk management to the next level.
In order to tackle today’s challenging economic climate, businesses need empowering. Managing risks with confidence is critical to growth. That is exactly what RiskSmart is here to do. The creators of RiskSmart are all former risk professionals themselves. They have experienced the challenges and longed for a platform that solved all of their problems.
Its platform allows users to build their perfect risk framework and taxonomy with a tailored dashboard. Users can quickly and easily assign risk owners, tags, tiers and link controls to ensure greater accountability and ownership. RiskSmart also offers third-party risk management software aimed at streamlining and centralising oversight to make monitoring and updates easier.
Key features:
- AI-supported risk management
- Third-Party Risk Management
- Centralised Risk management capabilities
Star Compliance
Founded: 1999
Subsectors: Conflict of Interest Management, Employee & Firm Compliance, Risk Management, Compliance Management, Regulatory Reporting, Crypto & Digital Asset Compliance
Regions of Operations: Global
Who does it serve: Financial services, including asset managers, broker-dealers, digital assets, private equity and banking
What it does:
Star Compliance delivers a next generation compliance platform that empowers organizations to manage risk, monitor conflicts, and uphold integrity across the enterprise. Star’s configurable, cloud-based solutions provide the data, technology, and insights needed to stay ahead of regulatory complexity – from traditional financial oversight to emerging areas like digital assets trading.
Built for complex, multi-jurisdictional firms, StarCompliance Enterprise empowers financial institutions, insurers, and exchanges to build a culture of integrity. Its partnerships with leading data, workflow, and analytics providers extend the Platform’s value—enabling clients to future-proof their compliance programs across digital assets, and the global regulatory landscape.
Key features:
- Employee Conflicts Monitoring and Firm Conflicts & MNPI Management
- Individual Accountability Support
- Broker-Dealer Registration
ViClarity
Founded: 2008
Subsectors: Onboarding Verification, Cybersecurity Information Security, Risk Management, Reporting, Compliance Management, Vendor Management
Regions of Operations: Global
Who does it serve: Insurance, Asset management, Banks, Credit unions, Hospitals, Social care, Public sector, Education, Charities
What it does:
ViClarity is an esteemed provider of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management software solutions, catering to highly regulated sectors such as healthcare, insurance, and financial services. Organisations of varying sizes employ their GRC tools to enhance and automate risk and compliance processes.
Established in 2008, ViClarity Europe merged with the US-based compliance consulting firm, PolicyWorks, LLC, in 2020. This merger resulted in the formation of a unified global RegTech entity, headquartered in Tralee, Co Kerry, with an additional office in Des Moines, Iowa. ViClarity serves over 1,000 clients worldwide across diverse regulated industries. Their technology platform has enabled clients to save significant time on manual tasks, streamline processes, and adeptly navigate an evolving regulatory landscape.
Key features:
- Risk Management solution
- Third-Party Risk Management
- Incident/Issues/Complaint Management
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