Regulatory Technologies and Regulatory Intermediaries
Converging Regulatory Responses to RegTech
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12626169 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donal Casey (0000-0002-9023-5836, Uppsala University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1387-6988 • E-ISSN: 1572-5448 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13876988.2026.2641670 |
| OpenAlex | W7140280274 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 39 |
Financial institutions are increasingly deploying artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to automate and augment compliance activities. This paper examines the financial sector’s use of AI-based regulatory technology (RegTech) and argues that both AI-based RegTech programs and developers function as regulatory intermediaries. It explores how the increasing agency and competencies of these technologies create incentives to delegate and introduces delegation problems. Through a comparative study of financial regulators in the UK, Singapore, and Hong Kong, the paper examines how regulators have converged in constructing systems of control to harness the competencies of these intermediaries and mitigate delegation problems
Government regulation · Key (lock · Perspective (graphical · Regulator · Regulatory focus theory · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Digital Platforms and Economics · Regulation and Compliance Studies
Decentring Regulation
Reframing AI Discourse
Ironies of automation
Artificial Intelligence, Responsibility Attribution, and a Relational Justification of Explainability
The ethics of algorithms
AI, agency and responsibility
The sociotechnical entanglement of AI and values
AI as Agency without Intelligence
Sensing Reality? New Monitoring Technologies for Global Sustainability Standards
Deep learning and principal–agent problems of algorithmic governance
Opaque transparency
Digital sustainability assurance governing global value chains
Algorithmic regulation
Intermediary roles in regulatory programs
Exploring the formal and informal roles of regulatory intermediaries in transnational multistakeholder regulation
Competence versus control
Caught in quicksand? Compliance and legitimacy challenges in using regulatory sandboxes to manage emerging technologies
Introduction
Accountability in Accounting? The Politics of Private Rule-Making in the Public Interest
Two Logics of Indirect Governance
Asymmetry in Empowering and Disempowering Private Intermediaries
Introducing Regulatory Intermediaries
Theorizing Regulatory Intermediaries
Big Third-Party Certifiers and the Construction of Transnational Regulation
Brighter and Darker Sides of Intermediation
Enriching the RIT Framework
Materializing Morality
The ethics of algorithms
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |