Regulatory and standards data

Keeping track of rules and standards across markets is a data problem in itself. This guide covers regulatory and standards data and how to source it.

Why regulatory data matters

Organisations face a growing web of rules, obligations and standards across jurisdictions. Structured regulatory data underpins compliance, RegTech and risk management.

The data landscape

• Rules and obligations: laws and regulations.
• Standards: technical and industry standards.
• Changes: updates and horizon scanning.
• Mappings: obligations to controls.

Common use cases

Compliance and obligation management, RegTech and automation, horizon scanning, and risk and audit.

Sourcing considerations

Official sources (EUR-Lex, national gazettes, standards bodies) are authoritative; structuring and mapping them to obligations is the value. Currency is critical, rules change constantly.

Delivery and governance

Compliance wants timely updates; mapping uses structured batches. Most data is non-personal. Provenance matters for compliance reliance.

In a managed model

A managed partner can source and structure regulatory and standards data with change tracking.

Currency is critical

Structured regulatory and standards data underpins compliance, RegTech and risk, but rules change constantly, so currency is critical. Official sources (EUR-Lex, national gazettes, standards bodies) are authoritative; structuring and mapping them to obligations is the value.

Provenance for reliance

Provenance matters for compliance reliance, and change tracking turns scattered rules into a usable obligations view.

Sources & further reading

• EUR-Lex and national official journals.
• Standards bodies (ISO, CEN, ETSI).
• Regulators and supervisory authorities.
• RegTech data references.