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Compliance Alpha: Market Abuse


Overview

Compliance teams historically rely on fragmented systems, spreadsheets, and manual processes — leading to inefficiencies, audit strain, risk blind spots, and low confidence in regulatory readiness.

The Compliance Management solution was conceived to solve these problems by digitizing and streamlining compliance tasks, policy management, risk tracking, and activity oversight in a single, integrated platform that works in tandem with ACA’s broader RegTech ecosystem

 

Role:
UX Designer

Responsibilities:
UX strategy, workflow design, information architecture, interaction & visual design, stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, and compliance SMEs.


Problem

Teams managed regulatory obligations, policies, risks, and audits across disconnected systems and spreadsheets. This fragmentation reduced visibility, increased manual effort, and created unnecessary risk—especially during audits or regulatory change.

Goals

  • Reduce cognitive load across complex compliance workflows

  • Improve visibility across policies, risks, and activities

  • Enable proactive, action-oriented compliance management

  • Ensure audit readiness by default

Solutions

  • Designed role-based dashboards that surface priority tasks, risk indicators, and program health at a glance—allowing users to act immediately without navigating multiple tools.

  • Created clear, connected relationships between regulatory obligations, internal policies, and risk controls, reducing manual reconciliation and improving confidence in coverage.

  • Introduced expert-maintained regulatory content, automated task assignments, reminders, and escalation paths—significantly reducing spreadsheet dependency.

  • Every action is logged with ownership and timestamps, enabling continuous audit readiness rather than last-minute preparation.

Impact

  • Reduced manual effort and fragmented workflows

  • Faster audit preparation with structured records

  • Increased confidence and visibility for compliance teams

  • Improved cross-functional collaboration