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How the Regulations module works

The Regulations module is Datamaran's regulatory intelligence system, organised into three sections (Overview, Monitoring, and Research) that work together to keep you informed of regulatory change relevant to your business.

The module is built for continuous monitoring rather than one-off database lookups. It acts as a first line of defence: use it to stay ahead of regulatory developments, and verify specific obligations with your legal or compliance team.

Why this matters

  • Track regulatory change across the countries, industries, and topics that matter to your organisation
  • Replace manual horizon scanning with saved Views that update automatically
  • Share regulatory awareness across your team through Views that are visible to your whole workspace
  • Explore the wider regulatory database when a new topic or jurisdiction needs sanity-checking

The three sections at a glance

  • Overview is the starting point. You define your monitoring universe (countries, industries, topics, and an optional text query) and save it as a View, with or without email notifications.
  • Monitoring is your home base. It lists every View saved in your workspace, your own and your colleagues', with a time-range filter that drives a "what's new" count for each View.
  • Research is your discovery layer. Use it for open-ended exploration of the full regulatory database and to load Expert Curated Searches built by Datamaran. Save anything relevant as a View to fold it back into Monitoring.

What a View is

A View is a saved combination of countries, industries, topics, and an optional text query. Each View has a name and can have email notifications switched on.

Views are the unit of value in the Regulations module. You build them in Overview, you return to them in Monitoring, and you can save them from Research too.

Views are visible to every user in your workspace, so colleagues can build on each other's work. To receive email notifications for a View created by a colleague, save your own copy and switch notifications on.

Two use cases: Monitor and Discover

The three sections map onto two complementary use cases.

Monitor (Overview + Monitoring)

Stay informed about regulatory change inside a monitoring universe you have defined. Build the scope in Overview, save it as a View with notifications on, and return to Monitoring on a weekly, fortnightly, or monthly cadence to review what's new across every View in your workspace.

Discover (Research)

Explore regulatory developments that may sit outside your current monitoring universe. Start in Research when a new topic, country, or theme surfaces (in the news, from a peer, or from a colleague) and you don't yet have a View for it. If the topic turns out to be relevant, save the query as a View. From that point on, it appears in Monitoring alongside everything else.

Two notification systems

Notifications come in two flavours, both delivered by email:

  • View-level notifications alert you when new regulations enter the scope of a saved View. You configure them when you save a View in Overview, and you can switch them on or off from each View in Monitoring.
  • Single-regulation notifications (the bell icon in the regulation card) alert you when there is a change to one specific regulation you have chosen to follow. You configure them on the regulation itself, and manage all bell-icon notifications in Notifications in the main menu.

Use View-level notifications for ongoing scope monitoring. Use the bell icon for close tracking of a specific regulation.

Recommended first-time flow

  1. In the main menu, select Regulations, then click Overview.
  2. Adjust the pre-filled country and industry to reflect your organisation's footprint.
  3. Optionally, add the topics that matter most and/or add a text query for further refinement.
  4. Click Save View and give the View a clear, descriptive name. Switch on Email notifications.
  5. Open Regulations > Monitoring. Your View now appears there alongside any Views your colleagues have created.
  6. Agree a cadence with yourself (for example, every Monday morning) and return to Monitoring to review what has changed.

Tip: Save more than one View. A broad "global monitoring" View, a regional View, and one or two topic-focused Views let you switch perspectives in seconds.

Scope reminder

Datamaran covers country-level regulations globally and US state-level regulations. It does not cover city-level regulations or state/province regulations outside the US, and it does not cover technical product regulations. The platform monitors 99 ESG topics. For full details, see Regulatory Database Scope.