Rapid technological innovation and evolving supervisory priorities are influencing regulatory activity, reports KPMG. Organizations face a complex “regulatory stack” requiring balance between innovation and control, speed and resilience, and modernization and stability.
KPMG has enumerated 10 key regulatory challenges of 2026 that it projects, based on regulatory signals observed in 2025, are risk areas. They include:
Executing mandates: Aligning with the administration’s priorities to reduce complexity, encourage innovation, and promote growth, regulators have narrowed supervision and enforcement to core statutory authorities; organizations must be cognizant of maintaining compliance with existing laws and regulations and growing regulatory divergence.
Adopting disruptive technology and artificial intelligence: Federal and state regulatory adaptation of existing risk frameworks and policies respond to complexities in evol
