# Regulation Asia

> Financial-regulation news for the Asia-Pacific region. Returns the most recently published Regulation Asia articles as clean, ready-to-read JSON, with full article text, publish dates, topics and tags.

Source: https://cotera.co/docs/reference/tools/individual-tools/regulation-asia

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**Authentication Type:** API Key
**Description:** Financial-regulation news for the Asia-Pacific region. Returns the most recently published Regulation Asia articles as clean, ready-to-read JSON, with full article text, publish dates, topics and tags.

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## Authentication

Regulation Asia issues API access to partners directly — there is no self-serve signup. Contact <support@regulationasia.com> to request access.

They will send you two values:

1. **API key** — looks like `ra_xxxxxxxx`. Enter this as `apiKey`.
2. **API base URL** — usually `https://api.regulationasia.com`. Only enter this as the optional `baseUrl` field if Regulation Asia gave you a different address; otherwise leave it blank.

The key identifies your organisation, so treat it like a password.

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## Articles

### Get Latest Articles

Fetch the most recently published Regulation Asia articles, newest first. The feed refreshes roughly once a minute, so polling more often than that will not return newer stories.

This endpoint takes no search or filter parameters — it always returns the current unfiltered feed. Filter by topic, jurisdiction, company or regulator yourself from the `topics`, `tags`, `title` and `content` fields on the articles that come back.

**Operation Type:** Query (Read)

**Parameters:**

* **limit** `number` (nullable): Keep only the newest N articles from the feed (1-20). The API always returns the whole feed, so this trims it afterwards to save context. Default: null (return everything the feed gave back)
* **includeContent** `boolean`: Include the full plain-text body of each article. Set to false when you only need headlines, links and topics — twenty full articles is a lot of text. Default: true

**Returns:**

* **articles** `array of objects`: The latest articles, newest first
  * **title** `string`: Article headline
  * **url** `string`: Link to the full article on regulationasia.com
  * **excerpt** `string` (nullable): Short plain-text summary of the article
  * **content** `string` (nullable): Full article body as plain text, already stripped of HTML. Null when `includeContent` is false.
  * **publishedAt** `string` (nullable): Publish date/time in UTC (ISO 8601)
  * **topics** `array of objects`: Grouped subject areas the article was filed under
    * **category** `string`: Parent subject area (e.g. "Markets & Infrastructure")
    * **subcategory** `array of strings`: Subcategories under that parent (e.g. \["Structural Regulation"])
  * **tags** `array of strings`: Free-form keywords on the article (e.g. \["ASIFMA", "APAC"])
* **total** `number`: Number of articles returned

**Example Usage:**

```json
{
  "limit": 5,
  "includeContent": true
}
```

Headlines only, for a quick scan of the whole feed:

```json
{
  "limit": null,
  "includeContent": false
}
```

**Note on feed size:** the feed returns up to 20 articles, but it is size-limited. On a heavy news day, when the day's stories are unusually long, it returns the newest articles that fit and leaves out the oldest, so you may receive fewer than 20. Every article that does come back keeps its complete full text, so nothing is ever cut off partway through an article.

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## Common Use Cases

**Regulatory Monitoring:**

* Watch for new coverage of a specific regulator, jurisdiction or rule change
* Flag articles that mention a company or counterparty you care about
* Track how a regulatory theme develops across successive stories

**Compliance Briefings:**

* Summarise the day's APAC financial-regulation coverage into a morning digest
* Post a filtered feed of relevant stories to Slack for the compliance team
* Build a weekly roundup grouped by topic category

**Research and Analysis:**

* Compare coverage across topics like AML, market structure and digital assets
* Pull full article text into a dataset for downstream analysis
* Cross-reference regulatory news against your own portfolio or client list