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The Future-Proof Regulatory Change Management Checklist

Build a structured, scalable Regulatory Change Management framework

Regulatory expectations continue to accelerate across jurisdictions, supervisory themes, and enforcement intensity. Firms that rely on reactive compliance approaches expose themselves to avoidable risk, remediation cost, and regulatory scrutiny.
 
A robust Regulatory Change Management (RCM) framework reduces the risk of non-compliance, strengthens stakeholder trust, and enables confident responses to evolving regulatory landscapes.
 
When regulatory awareness is embedded into governance, delivery, and oversight, compliance becomes sustainable, repeatable, and strategically aligned.
 
This Best Practice Checklist provides a practical blueprint for building an effective, future-proof Regulatory Change Management framework.

Using 12 core pillars of maturity, the checklist helps firms move from reactive compliance to a predictive, strategic regulatory risk model. 

What the Checklist Covers

The checklist benchmarks your framework across 12 core pillars of effectiveness:

  • Governance & Accountability – executive ownership, decision rights, board oversight and resourcing
  • Horizon Scanning – multi-source monitoring, early signal detection and prioritisation
  • Regulatory Inventory – a mapped “Regulatory Universe” linking obligations to controls, systems and owners
  • Impact Assessment – quantified financial, operational and strategic impact analysis
  • Implementation Discipline – ownership, milestones, deadlines and RACI oversight
  • Technology & Automation – AI-assisted monitoring, workflow management and reporting dashboards
  • Integration & Collaboration – alignment with risk appetite, product governance and enterprise strategy
  • Audit Readiness & MI – defensible evidence, board metrics and continuous improvement

Why Download the Checklist?

  • Benchmark your current framework against best practice
  • Identify structural gaps before regulators do
  • Improve board oversight and regulatory transparency
  • Strengthen audit readiness and defensibility
  • Embed regulatory change into strategy, not just compliance

Get access to our free checklist to benchmark your Regulatory Change Management framework and identify the highest-value improvements!