Our Horizon Scanning service uniquely serves clients with features such as concise regulatory summaries, tailored solutions, verified information and real-time dashboards. Updates are promptly delivered, covering global and local mandates. A robust governance model and expert optional advisory services ensure effective compliance management, meeting diverse client needs in regulatory landscapes.

Benefits include:

Comprehensive coverage: Our extensive scope of international jurisdictions ensures that clients have a complete view of the regulatory environment, encompassing both broad international regulations and local jurisdictional mandates.
Regulatory assurance: Our sweeping governance framework ensures high-quality information, filtered through leading technology, expert review and
Enhanced efficiency: Our personalised service eliminates the tedious task of manual legal research from the desks of legal departments, freeing up lawyers to concentrate more on strategic issues and allocate their time and resources more effectively.
Risk mitigation: Our advanced platform and programming identify potential legislative shifts, allowing your organisation to adjust strategies and operations early, mitigating risks before they impact your business.
Trend awareness: Our meticulous scanning platform analyses patterns and forecasts future regulatory movements, enabling your business to prepare for and leverage these trends for strategic planning and development.

DWF's Horizon Scanning service combines advanced Generative AI and Machine Learning to deliver customised, accurate regulatory updates, verified by human checks. We work with the client to identify relevant stakeholders whether they be in legal, compliance or risk, then define scope, actors and agencies pertinent to the organisation’s business actions. We develop keywords to ensure updates are relevant to the subject matter and in scope, reducing unnecessary information and providing rich results every single day.

By tracking daily from over 7,000 URLs and delivering 100,000+ summaries globally, our service offers quick, extensive coverage in 150+ countries and monitors 3,000+ agencies, ensuring rapid compliance and operational agility.

We can help your legal teams in the following areas:

Targeted jurisdiction tracking: Pinpoint and summarise regulations across applicable jurisdictions tailored specifically for your needs.
Customised governance framework: Develop a bespoke governance structure and summarisation methodology tailored to your legal department.
Industry-specific analysis and consultation: Offer comprehensive analysis and expert consultation, tailored to particular industries and sectors.
Custom reporting dashboards: Design and implement reporting dashboards and schedules customised to align perfectly with your team's requirements.

Horizon Scanning Services

Concise update summaries: Providing concise summaries of all pertinent updates directly to our clients, with more than 100,000 reports provided to date, eliminating the need to sift through extensive documents.
Tailored client solutions: Customising technology, processes and reporting to deliver a service that aligns precisely with our clients' unique requirements.
Verified and relevant information: Emphasising the delivery of only relevant, verified and official content anchored by an extensive governance framework and feedback exchange mechanism.
Real-time dashboards and reporting: Publishing personalised, real-time dashboards and reporting tools designed to deliver immediate insights into information critical to our clients within one business day from hundreds of jurisdictions worldwide.
Specialised expert advisory: Supplementing technology with optional specialised regulatory input, including consulting from professionals with specific jurisdictional expertise.

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