28. März 2025

Digital Compliance

Legal tech as a driver for better prevention

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Introduction

Compliance and digitalisation are two aspects that have become an integral part of everyday business life today. Digitalisation has taken hold of a large number of business processes in companies and other organisations. In some cases, it is already the main focus of activity, such as high-frequency trading in investment banking. These organisational changes are accompanied by the increasing digitalisation of the legal framework in which these entrepreneurial activities take place. This regulatory framework has become increasingly important over the last two decades as it has been increasingly and systematically linked to business processes in the context of compliance, corporate governance and risk management. More and more digital solutions are being sought for in order to achieve compliance with this regulatory framework.

The development of digital solutions for compliance as well as for corporate governance and risk management combines numerous developments and disciplines that have often been considered separately in the past, as it involves not only the most diverse fields of law (primarily corporate and criminal law) and their empirical basis in criminology, but also economics (including business ethics), sociology and psychology and, above all, information technology and its technical implementation. In addition, there are numerous national and international regulators and authorities in this field who issue specifications that are only partly to be considered as hard law, but often come across as soft law and thus raise the question of how and to what extent they should be taken into account. In order to understand and implement this ultimately very far-reaching area, especially in larger corporate units, digitalisation offers approaches that are better able to grasp this complexity than a purely manual/personal system and also to integrate it into everyday corporate life. Digital compliance has thus become a key driver of legal tech development in corporate practice.


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