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Rule Scanner

Solution for financial service providers to monitor regulations

Legal and regulatory horizon scanning and risk mapping

Financial services companies are facing an era of unprecedented regulatory scrutiny. They are thus operating in an increasingly complex legal and regulatory environment. This complexity is compounded by the multiple and often competing requirements set out in regulations or regulatory expectations. These can vary by market sector, asset class, jurisdiction and type of regulated activity. Regulations are also set by various global, regional and national competent authorities.

Benefits

50 %

Reduced costs

With Rule Scanner, you can reduce compliance costs by up to 50% – freeing up in-house legal, regulatory, compliance and risk teams to spend their time on more important areas.

 

> 1.500

Regulators, supervisors, legislators and industry associations

You can choose from over 1.500 regulators, supervisors, legislators and industry associations in over 170 countries and customise which Horizon Scanning and Risk Mapping of Tier 1, 2 and 3 authorities are relevant to your business units and 3LoD structure.

Our solution for financial services companies

The Rule Scanner creates standardised definitions and data (thus avoiding manual processes and errors) and offers targeted updates compared to other technological solutions currently available on the market.

With Rule Scanner, you can seize opportunities in real time to capture, interpret and implement legal as well as regulatory changes. It also allows you to look back and plan for future versions of legal and regulatory instruments and guidance.

01Overcoming challenges with structured insights and risk information

With Rule Scanner, you can seize opportunities in real time to capture, interpret and implement legal as well as regulatory changes. It also allows you to look back and plan for future versions of legal and regulatory instruments and guidance.

In the Spotlight

Intuitive user interface

The Rule Scanner enables you to identify interrelationships and interactions between different legal and administrative provisions.

Stay up to date

With the Rule Scanner, you can quickly check the updated content of the system when new regulations become available to immediately classify and track developments.

Recognising effects at a glance

The Horizon Scanning solution allows you to access an embedded glossary to retrieve relevant definitions and have regulatory publications translated into English with one click.

Have regulations translated into English

The Horizon Scanning solution allows you to access an embedded glossary to retrieve relevant definitions and have regulatory publications translated into English with one click.

Risk Mapping

You can also use Rule Scanner to extract relevant risk information from enforcement notices to quickly and clearly highlight the largest areas of legal or regulatory risk.

Access dedicated support

Get support from multi-disciplinary and multi-country qualified financial services and regulatory lawyers from PwC Legal Business Solutions, as well as compliance, risk and audit experts from PwC.

Pricing

Small financial institution*

  • Horizon scanning of legal and regulatory sources
  • Applicable to business models of Tier 1 authorities
from € 15,000

Further services are charged on request

Medium financial institution*

  • Horizon scanning (applicable to Tier 1 and Tier 2 authorities, depending on the business model)
  • Quarterly counselling sessions
  • Free provision of curated "thought leadership" content
  • Optional: Workflow tool from
    € 50,000
from € 35,000

Further services are charged on request

Medium-sized financial institution*

  • Horizon scanning and risk mapping (applicable to Tier 1 and Tier 2 authorities depending on business model)
  • Targeted access to the fines database
  • Monthly counselling sessions
  • Optional: Workflow tool from
    € 125,000

from € 100,000

Further services are charged on request

Large financial institution*

  • Horizon scanning and risk mapping (applicable to level 1,2 and 3 authorities)
  • Full access to the fines database
  • Complete dashboard functions for management information
  • Monthly preparation of management information reports
  • Consultations on request
from € 150,000

Optional: (a) Workflow tool from
€ 175,000
(b) Risk control self-assessment functions from € 50,000

(G) SIFIs and higher*

In addition to the above core services, we offer customised packages:

  • Preparation of weekly or monthly management information reports
  • Enterprise-wide regulation and GRC mapping
  • Digitisation of internal policies and procedures as well as systems and controls

The Rule Scanner is available in various annually billed pricing models. These are calculated based on the complexity of the financial services companies and the number of jurisdictions and authorities to be covered. Additional costs, e.g. for digitising policies and procedures to enable automatic intelligent updates, depend on specific needs and are subject to customised pricing.