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Keeping pace with regulatory change
In today's rapidly shifting business landscape trust is key, pushing governance and compliance up the boardroom agenda. It is essential to have robust and reliable means of ensuring compliance with law and regulation and to meet public expectations. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the speed at which risk events can occur and the extent to which they spread and influence regulatory change.
All regulated and designated businesses face regulatory challenges, regardless of size or sector. Breaching regulatory obligations can mean sanctions and penalties, which we have seen in the market, and can lead to irreparable reputational damage. Taking a proactive approach to regulatory compliance is the best way businesses can prepare and respond to these changes to mitigate risk and protect themselves.
We come together with our experience working across relevant sectors in the Isle of Man to develop tailored, practical solutions to ensure your compliance with the regulations that apply to your business, while building trust and delivering sustained outcomes that create value for your business and stakeholders.
Potential challenges
The Isle of Man’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) and Gambling Supervision Commission (GSC) are committed to continually assessing legislation and regulation in line with applicable international standards. This means change can come at a pace that is hard to keep up with and that makes it difficult to fully assess its impact on your organisation, let alone identify and implement any necessary changes, particularly given the frequent developments around AML/CFT. The regulatory expectation is that the responsibility for compliance rests with the Board: are you confident that you’re doing things right?
Regulation evolves fast, how can I hope to keep up?
New regulation can mean the need for considerable change. It can be difficult to find the time or resource to fully assess the impact on your organisation and identify and implement any necessary changes. You may also be unsure whether your systems, processes and controls are robust enough to meet the challenge.
How do I obtain assurance that we’re doing things right, and how do I demonstrate compliance to stakeholders?
Creating and maintaining a visibly strong compliance and control culture is of paramount importance across the Isle of Man’s financial services, gaming and designated business sectors. Are your governance structures sufficiently transparent, with clear accountability and reporting lines? Effective management of your regulatory and compliance risk is key to ensuring that you comply with the relevant laws and regulations, as well as with group or other internal policies and standards.
How can I satisfy the regulator that we’re taking appropriate action?
If you are facing any form of regulatory action, particularly where the integrity of senior management may have been called into question, the regulator may require an independent investigation into the facts and the steps you have taken to address the issue. Whether the problem relates to anti-money laundering, sanctions, bribery, fraud and corruption, failure to take the right steps could result in reputational damage or financial loss.
How can we help?
Our working relationships with local, EU and international regulatory bodies provide us with a deep understanding of their requirements, which helps us advise you how to manage your regulatory risk.
Here at PwC we work with regulators, regulated entities and non-regulated entities bringing together experience across risk management, regulation, controls, compliance and more to help you and your business overcome the varying challenges regulation brings about.
Our services include:
- Regulatory change
- Governance and regulatory compliance
- Regulatory assurance
- Regulatory remediation
- Regulatory intervention
Regulatory change
We can help you to stay on top of the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape by providing advice, guidance and practical assistance in understanding the impact of new regulations, and helping you to implement necessary changes. Our relationships with local, EU and international regulatory bodies allow us to provide you with a sound and early understanding of any new regulatory requirements.
Governance and regulatory compliance
Whether it involves the FSA Rulebook, egaming regulations, Anti-Money Laundering requirements, the Bribery Act, we can work with you to provide an objective and independent assessment of your current state of compliance, and assist you in creating a holistic governance, risk and compliance framework.
Regulatory assurance
Our team has a range of experience and expertise in providing regulatory compliance assurance. We can help to provide assurance on the strength of your control environment, the effectiveness of your regulatory compliance controls, or your compliance with an industry code of conduct.
Regulatory remediation
The effectiveness of any remediation programme lies in its implementation, and any solution must be tailored to your business environment and activities. We can help with:
- Implementing risk mitigation programmes and effective governance processes
- Developing the effectiveness of the compliance function
- Implementing Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing remediation plans
- Documenting regulatory compliance processes
- Carrying out post-implementation reviews
Regulatory intervention
We can help you to prepare for visits by the regulator in the normal course of business. Where an issue has arisen that has led to regulatory intervention, we can support you in dealing with enhanced supervisory or enforcement actions and minimising the impact on your business, customers and reputation.
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