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Regulatory Risk

What is Regulatory Risk?

The potential impact on an organization from changes in laws and regulations that could affect its operations, profitability, or market position.

Compliance and Regulatory

Frameworks that govern regulatory risk

ISO 27001:2022View framework →NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0View framework →NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5View framework →

What the standards actually require on regulatory risk

Requirements naming regulatory risk across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.

Basel III International Banking Framework1 control

All banks must post Table CCA on their website describing each regulatory capital instrument (and, for G-SIB resolution entities, other external TLAC-eligible instruments), update it on every issuance, repayment, redemption, conversion, write-down or material...

basel-iii-international-banking-framework::DIS25-26-30 · Disclose capital composition, capital instruments, TLAC, distribution constraints and accounting to regulatory linkages →
Jamaica Data Protection Act 20201 control

Standard 3 per Section 21 + the Schedule of the Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020: Personal data shall be adequate + relevant + and necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed (Data Minimisation Principle).

JM-DPA2020-Standard3-Adequacy-Relevance-Necessity-Sec21-Data-Minimisation-No-Excess-Processing · Jamaica DPA 2020 Standard 3 - Adequacy + Relevance + Necessity + Section 21 + Data Minimisation + No Excess Processing + Proportionality + Privacy by Default + Field-Level Restraint + Granular Permissions →
Principles for Doing Business at Lloyd's1 control

The managing agent understands its regulatory and financial crime exposure and appetite, and that understanding is challenged. Financial crime risk assessment: carried out every year with a defined scope and resources and compared with appetite, it identifies...

principles-for-doing-business-at-lloyd-s::P11.2 · 11.2 A robust understanding of regulatory and financial crime risk exposure and appetite, subject to challenge →
TSA Pipeline Security1 control

Baseline: establish and distribute cybersecurity policies, plans, processes and supporting procedures commensurate with the regulatory, risk, legal and operational environment, and review them at least every 36 months or on significant organizational or techno...

tsa-pipeline-security::T3.ID.GV · Table 3 Identify: Governance →

Questions people ask about regulatory risk

What is Regulatory Risk?
The potential impact on an organization from changes in laws and regulations that could affect its operations, profitability, or market position.
Why is Regulatory Risk important for compliance?
Regulatory Risk is a key concept in Compliance and Regulatory. Understanding regulatory risk helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Regulatory Risk?
Regulatory Risk appears in the requirement text of Basel III International Banking Framework, Jamaica Data Protection Act 2020, Principles for Doing Business at Lloyd's, TSA Pipeline Security. Across these standards we have identified 4 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Regulatory Risk?
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