FinregE’s AI-driven regulatory compliance platform has tracked over 450,000 regulatory publications by 793 regulators globally in 2025.
This number shows the scale of the task at hand for compliance, risk and legal teams that need to continuously survey this environment, interpret what applies to their business, and manage change across their organisation.
Managing this is no easy feat, especially without tools that can help navigate the landscape and act. Manual compliance processes are slow, prone to errors and fragmented data, and difficult to evidence.
Worse still, regulatory compliance updates that slip through the cracks can lead to significant fines or penalties and long-term reputational damage for businesses.
Even with tools in place, many organisations quietly run on outdated point solutions that don’t track or implement changes end-to-end. These create blind spots, duplicate efforts, scatter evidence across inboxes, and give leadership a false sense of security.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. If done right, regulatory compliance can be an enabler to greater business performance, not a roadblock, and here are 5 ways to get there.
1. Build a culture of compliance, from the top down
What this means: Leaders treat compliance proactively with clear visibility; it tangibly impacts how decisions are made, rather than serving as an isolated approval point at the end. Teams see it early, often, and in plain language.
- Try these suggestions to enhance engagement with the subject across your business:
- Have a compliance executive present to the wider business (first line, second line and third line of defence) and discuss a major compliance initiative such as Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) or Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and summarise the companies approach using simple language – e.g. “Here’s the rule, here’s the risk and opportunity this presents to us, and here’s how to mitigate the risks and realise any benefits”.
- Run a 15-minute lunch and learn to show compliance work being done in the approved company systems and highlight the importance of compliance to all employees. From which deadlines are looming, to which controls are being worked on.
- Nominate compliance champions in product/ops/sales squads. Give them fast-track access to your compliance team and focus on upskilling.
- Publish “what good looks like” examples – short, visual snippets internally and externally.
- Watch for: leaders delegating all risk talk to legal and compliance teams, policies that describe intent but don’t describe actions that need to be taken or compliance being treated as a box-ticking exercise.
- Measure it: publish any relevant regulatory compliance metrics to the wider business and monitor attendance at monthly huddles.
FinregE gives leaders a single source of truth (rulebooks, obligations, mappings) so champions can show “what good looks like” with live examples instead of static policy PDFs
2. Use technology for regulatory compliance automation
What this means: Automate the brittle and time-consuming parts, from interpretation of large documents to capturing audit trails and manual checking, so teams can spend more time on judgement, implementation and remediation.
- Try regulatory technologies that do the following:
- Move from manual collection and spreadsheet tracking to a platform
that continuously monitors global regulators, converts regulatory texts into structured, machine-readable obligations, maps them to your internal policies and controls, assigns ownership, and proves all actions with live dashboards and a full audit trail. - Assists in interpretation using AI-driven tools that extract the key obligations, risks, and required actions from long-form regulations or guidance. This removes the need for teams to decipher dense legal text and helps ensure consistent, accurate understanding across the business.
- Map internal policy to regulation and highlight gaps by automatically comparing new regulations against your existing policies, procedures, and control framework. This makes it easy to spot misalignments, understand where updates are needed, and generate recommended control language or policy text to close the gap.
- Encourage seamless information transfer across the wider business
by embedding compliance workflows into day-to-day tools, breaking silos between legal, compliance, risk, and operations. Look for platforms that allow multiple teams to collaborate on the same regulatory change item, without losing traceability or ownership.
- Move from manual collection and spreadsheet tracking to a platform
- Watch for: tools that only collect regulatory publications but don’t provide insights, automation without explainability, point products that don’t integrate properly.
- Measure it: percentage of controls enforced automatically, hours saved per audit, hours saved from manual work and cost reduction from automation.
3. Monitor compliance efforts regularly with live dashboards
What this means: A real-time view of your risk landscape in a single dashboard, which covers the entire regulatory compliance lifecycle, so your team can see progress made.
The ideal regulatory compliance solution will have the following:
- Custom, live dashboards showing status, priorities, and deadlines with a full audit trail of who did what and when, so audit prep is a by‑product of doing the work.
- Traceability that links obligations to policies and controls using Digital Rulebooks, Regulatory Obligations, and Rule Mapping, so any rule change instantly shows what’s impacted.
- Workflows and attestations to assign owners, due dates, and escalations; dashboards reflect progress automatically.
- Horizon scanning feeds that update your dashboard automatically.
- Assisted interpretation, drafting of impact assessments and managing regulatory change.
4. Bake compliance into workflows (compliance by design)
What this means: Ensure every workflow embeds compliance elements at every stage, from identifying a key regulation, horizon scanning, to mapping requirements to internal policies and controls.
- Try these following suggestions:
- Digitised workflows for regulatory change, self-assessments, remediation, and ongoing monitoring, configured to your processes so approvals, attestations, and escalations are consistent.
- Digital Rulebook libraries that offer a centralised repository for regulations and laws relevant to your business, making it easier to analyse and understand specific requirements.
- Dashboards and audit trails that evidence every step automatically, reducing manual reporting work.
- Horizon scanning capabilities that trigger the appropriate workflow whenever a relevant rule changes.
5. Adapt and learn continuously
What this means: Treat compliance like reliability: define service levels, learn from misses, and improve the system on a continuous basis.
- Try this:
- Run blameless post-incident reviews for findings and near-misses; convert fixes into new patterns or controls.
- Set compliance service-level objectives (SLO), (evidence freshness, access review completion, exception time-to-close) and review them monthly.
Bringing it together
If you remember nothing else:
- Make it cultural: leaders model it, teams own it.
- Make it automatic: systems prove controls are working.
- Make it visible: live, linked dashboards beat slide decks.
- Make it better every month: learn, adjust, retire what no longer works.
That’s how compliance stops being a bottleneck and starts being your speed advantage, shipping faster with fewer surprises, stronger assurance, and a team that knows exactly what “good” looks like.
FinregE can work hand-in-hand with your business to ensure all of the above.
We automate the full lifecycle of regulatory compliance, ensuring our clients stay ahead of every single change that could impact their business. Book a demo today.
