Artificial intelligence is increasingly reshaping the way organisations manage regulatory change, turning a traditionally manual and reactive process into a streamlined, intelligence-driven function.
With thousands of new regulatory updates issued daily around the globe, businesses are under immense pressure to stay compliant. According to Thomson Reuters’ Regulatory Intelligence unit, over 61,000 alerts were recorded in 2022 from more than 1,300 regulatory bodies—an average of 234 updates every day. As regulatory complexity grows, many firms are turning to AI to gain efficiency, reduce risk and even create competitive advantage.
4CRisk, which offers AI-powered RegTech solutions, recently outlined five ways AI is transforming regulatory change management.
The first major transformation comes at the horizon scanning stage. Traditionally, compliance teams sift through alerts from regulators, legal publications, and industry sources to identify potential updates that could affect them. But this approach is time-consuming and often incomplete. AI tools can now automate this scanning process, digesting vast volumes of structured and unstructured data in minutes. These tools can extract, compare, and highlight regulatory changes, presenting summaries and insights at a speed up to 10 times faster than manual methods. For organisations, this means faster visibility of what’s coming, and the ability to act before changes take effect.
Once changes are identified, businesses must assess their relevance. This is where AI’s ability to conduct an applicability analysis proves powerful. By parsing through regulatory documents and comparing new requirements to existing operations, AI can flag business units, services, or products that may be impacted. The process, which can take hours or even days manually, is reduced to minutes with AI. Additionally, intelligent tagging enables teams to distinguish between actionable and non-actionable updates, ensuring resources are focused where they matter most.
AI also revolutionises the impact assessment phase. Once a change is deemed applicable, organisations must identify how it affects their internal policies, controls, and procedures. This step often involves legal memos and stakeholder consultations. AI accelerates this by mapping regulatory changes to internal business processes, automatically generating action plans, summaries, and legal memos. With speeds up to 30 times faster than manual methods, legal and compliance teams can focus their expertise on review and validation rather than data processing.
The fourth benefit lies in managing change execution and documenting evidence. With multiple teams involved in implementing regulatory updates, the process often becomes fragmented and opaque. AI helps by automating workflows, tracking remedial actions, and providing detailed documentation of each step.
Finally, AI provides a strategic edge. Organisations that embed AI into their compliance programmes are better positioned to adapt quickly, respond to regulatory shifts, and go to market faster. In a fast-changing world where agility is critical, knowing your regulatory obligations—and being able to show evidence of compliance—can unlock new opportunities ahead of competitors still relying on manual processes.
4CRisk, a pioneer in AI-driven regulatory solutions, offers a range of tools designed to help organisations transform their approach to compliance. Its products include Regulatory Research, Regulatory Change Management, Compliance Maps, and Ask ARIA Co-Pilot. These tools combine domain-specific AI with secure deployment, enabling firms to complete regulatory tasks up to 50 times faster.
The Regulatory Research tool enables compliance professionals to identify rules, laws and standards from global authorities, generate curated rulebooks and merge similar obligations into actionable insights. Regulatory Change Management automates the tracking of changes and aligns policies and procedures accordingly. Compliance Maps help firms assess the effectiveness of their control frameworks and highlight gaps, while Ask ARIA Co-Pilot serves as an AI-powered assistant capable of answering complex internal queries—reducing effort by up to 90%.
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