This report identifies key demand-side trends in the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) services space, helping enterprises refine their GRC strategies. It offers insights into the growing regulatory complexity as frameworks such as GDPR, DORA, and the EU AI Act expand compliance obligations across jurisdictions. It examines enterprise challenges, such as fragmented governance ownership, siloed risk data across disconnected systems, and legacy technology constraints, that limit automation and scalability. The report also explores the dual role of AI in reshaping GRC, both as a tool for automating compliance and risk operations and as a subject of governance itself. It also highlights the emergence of risk quantification as a board-level priority, based on Avasant’s assessment.
Industries such as healthcare and life sciences, insurance, and banking face intensifying regulatory demands as frameworks such as GDPR, DORA, and the EU AI Act simultaneously expand compliance obligations across data privacy, risk reporting, and AI governance. Enterprises are under pressure to modernize, moving from periodic, manual compliance to continuous, AI-driven risk and compliance management, while also building capabilities to govern AI systems by ensuring model accuracy, data transparency, and fairness in AI outputs. Enterprises are also shifting from qualitative risk assessments to quantifying risk in financial terms, enabling boards to make informed decisions on risk investment and capital allocation.
The Governance, Risk, and Compliance Services 2026 Market Insights™ aids enterprises in identifying important market trends and challenges for any GRC project that they take part in.
The industry insights presented in this report are based on our ongoing interactions with enterprise CXOs and other key executives, targeted discussions with service providers, subject matter experts, and Avasant Fellows, analyst insights from primary and secondary research, and lessons learned from consulting engagements.
About the report (Page 3–5)
Executive summary (Pages 6–8)
Demand-side trends (Pages 9–14)
Future outlook (Pages 15–16)
Key contacts (Page 17)
Read the Research Byte based on this report. Please refer to Avasant’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance Services 2026 RadarView™ for detailed insights on the service providers and supply-side trends.
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