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Should Your Business Be Using RegTech?

13 May 2020, 17:57 CET

After the last great global financial crisis, financial service companies searched high and low for a tech tool that would allow them to keep pace with all the new regulatory rules that were being enforced upon them. For whatever reason, nobody was ever quite able to find a piece of tech that made life easier in this sense. That was until a few years ago…

RegTech has come in and changed the game in the finance sector, that much is for certain. Thousands of financial firms across the globe are now taking full advantage of this compliancy solution on a daily basis, and for good reason.

Could your business be the next? Read on to find out more about RegTech and the impact it could have on your daily operations.

What is RegTech?

RegTech stands for Regulatory Technology. In a nutshell, it is a piece of equipment that leverages cutting-edge horizon scanning scanning and reporting technology in an attempt to make life a lot easier for finance professionals. It allows them to mitigate risk and automate their workflow, which ultimately allows them to provide a much more secure and accurate service to their customers and partners.

What does it aim to achieve?

Regulatory compliance technology was created with one goal in mind — to ensure that financial service companies and institutions are capable of reaching complete regulatory compliance. This type of tech is designed to keep financial professionals on top of the ever-changing set of rules that govern them. It also helps regulators to overcome the general compliancy challenges that they come across on a daily basis.

What are the benefits of using RegTech?

You're never going to invest in a new piece of tech without first being made aware of all the ways it can benefit you. That would just be bad business practice!

Fortunately, you don't have to go into this venture blind. We've compiled a compressive list of all the benefits that you stand to reap from using RegTech. When you use this tech, you will be able to:

  • Streamline your daily operational processes
  • Conduct trade surveillance in a far more detailed manner
  • Integrate your compliancy solutions at a much quicker pace
  • Track your data insights and questionable patterns in real-time
  • Expose, anticipate and mitigate future threats
  • Monitor your transactions and auditing

Should your business be using RegTech? In a word: yes. With this technological tool at hand, you'll find it much easier to observe the stringent rules enforced upon you, you'll be able to draw up compliancy reports with ease, and ultimately you'll stand a much better chance of being able to optimize your daily workflow.

If you're going to invest in any from of technology any time soon, let it be RegTech. With this tool by your side, you'll stand a much better chance of staying afloat in the period of financial uncertainty that is sure to follow the COVID-19 pandemic.

Do you want to protect your future in the field of financial regulation and compliance? If so, you should invest in RegTech right away.

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