Stay ahead of regulatory change with our horizon scanning services. Whether you need help building your own monitoring framework or want access to our intelligent platform tracking 2,300+ regulatory updates, we have a solution for your firm.
Choose the point where regulatory change currently loses momentum.
Define sources and topics relevant to the firm.
Score changes against products, permissions and customers.
Assign owners, deadlines and implementation work.
Report status, evidence and overdue decisions.
What the FCA expects, and the evidence behind it.
A useful horizon scan tells the firm what matters and why.
Track the regulators, rules and themes that relate to the firm's permissions and sectors.
Record whether an update affects activities, customers, controls, reporting or governance.
Keep the reasoning for action, monitoring or closure so the process is auditable.
The value is in the implementation route that follows the scan.
Assign owners, deadlines, dependencies and evidence for each material change.
Confirm that the control, policy, system or training change was implemented and works.
Summarise material developments, risks, overdue actions and decisions needing challenge.
Monitoring is easy to start and hard to sustain. The work is in turning a feed of publications into a short list of things your firm has to do.
We scope monitoring to the regulators, publication types and topics relevant to your permissions, so the volume is manageable from the start.
Each item is assessed against your business model and permissions. Most publications do not apply to any given firm, and saying so is part of the output.
For what does apply, we set out what changes, which part of the business it touches and what would have to be done about it.
Relevant change becomes a tracked action with a named owner and a date, which is the step that turns monitoring into compliance.
Board and compliance reporting on what was assessed, what was actioned and what remains open — the record that shows the process ran.
Powerful features to keep your firm ahead of regulatory change
Track updates from FCA, PRA, HM Treasury, and other key regulators in one place.
Receive notifications tailored to your firm's regulatory permissions and risk profile.
Never miss a consultation deadline or implementation date with smart reminders.
Get concise, actionable summaries of complex regulatory documents.
Updates ranked by relevance to your specific business activities.
Connect with your existing compliance processes and reporting tools.
Choose the approach that best fits your firm's needs and resources
We help you build your own framework
Work with our ex-regulators and Big 4 consultants to design and implement a bespoke horizon scanning framework tailored to your firm's risk profile and regulatory permissions.
Use our personalised intelligence tool
Access our regulatory intelligence platform with 2,300+ updates tracked. Get personalised alerts, deadline tracking, and AI-powered summaries tailored to your firm's profile.
Proactive regulatory monitoring is essential for maintaining compliance and competitive advantage
2,300+
Regulatory Updates Tracked
50+
Regulatory Sources Monitored
Daily
Platform Updates
100%
UK Financial Services Focus
Essential for compliance teams across all FCA-regulated sectors
Smaller FCA-authorised firms face the same flow of regulatory change and supervisory expectations as large ones, without the budget for a full in-house team or the resilience to lose one key person.
A compliance function that keeps pace with regulatory change, without an in-house hire.
It should monitor regulators, rules and themes relevant to the firm's permissions, sectors, customers and operating model. The source list should be proportionate and explain why each source matters.
Each update should be assessed against the firm's activities and obligations, with a recorded conclusion, owner and reason for action or closure. Relevance is more useful than volume.
The process should connect the update to an impact assessment, named owner, decision, due date, implementation evidence and management reporting. Actions should be closed with evidence, not just marked complete.
Yes. A concise report can show material developments, impact decisions, overdue actions, emerging themes and items requiring senior-management or board attention.
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