Law for CEOs

Tracking regulatory developments that affect your industry

By assigning ownership and going to the source. Most late discoveries are ownership failures, not information failures.

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Key points

Name an owner per regulatory area. Areas without an owner are the ones that surprise you.
Go to the regulator's own publications. Secondary summaries - including ours - are a starting point, not a basis for action.
Distinguish reporting from explanation. What changed is a fact; what it means for your business is an assessment someone must actually make.
Sector authorisation is the area where change lands hardest, because the consequence can be stopping an activity.
Build the review into a cycle rather than reacting to headlines.

Exposure rarely sits where the accountability does. This is where it tends to surface first.

Take these into the meeting. The value is usually in how long the answers take.

Key points

Name an owner per regulatory area. Areas without an owner are the ones that surprise you.
Go to the regulator's own publications. Secondary summaries - including ours - are a starting point, not a basis for action.
Distinguish reporting from explanation. What changed is a fact; what it means for your business is an assessment someone must actually make.
Sector authorisation is the area where change lands hardest, because the consequence can be stopping an activity.
Build the review into a cycle rather than reacting to headlines.

Questions for the board

Take these into the meeting. The value is usually in how long the answers take.