Daily or real-time regulatory alerts?
Daily regulatory alerts bring updates together on a scheduled basis. Real-time alerts aim to notify you as new information becomes available. To compare services, ask how long it takes to detect a publication, assess it and deliver a notification—and which sources that timing covers.
For a compliance team tracking the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), the useful question is how quickly the team needs to see, understand and respond to each type of update.
There are several clocks behind an alert.
A publication date alone does not tell you how quickly a monitoring service responded. Follow one update through these stages when reviewing a supplier.
| Stage | What to establish |
|---|---|
| Publication | When the regulator made the document available. A page may show only a date rather than an exact time. |
| Detection | When the service found the update, and whether it checks the page, a feed or another source. |
| Assessment | When the summary and relevance assessment became available, including any review step. |
| Delivery | When the dashboard updated and the notification was sent. Email receipt may happen later. |
| Team response | When someone reviewed the update and decided what to do. This depends on your own process as well as the alert. |
For example, a hypothetical service could check a feed every hour but send a single daily email. Its detection schedule and email schedule would be different. An immediate headline notification could also arrive before a fuller assessment. Ask the supplier to demonstrate both timings.
What a daily digest gives your team.
A scheduled digest can provide a consistent starting point for a review session: inspect new publications, decide which affect your institution and assign follow-up work. Grouping updates can also make them easier to discuss together, provided the digest retains the original sources and dates.
The FCA itself offers daily and weekly news and publications emails. Its subscription page states that daily alerts are circulated on weekdays at 4pm and weekly alerts on Fridays at 5pm. These are scheduled publication updates; your team still needs to assess their relevance.
A daily review may fit planned consultation and policy work where your team has assessed that cadence as appropriate. Check the document’s actual dates and implications before deciding that it can wait for the next review. The publication category alone does not settle urgency.
When faster notification matters.
Faster notification is useful when waiting for the next digest could delay a decision your institution needs to make. An announcement affecting a current activity, or a correction to information your team is using, may warrant a different escalation path from a longer-term policy project.
Define that path with the people responsible for responding: what needs prompt attention, who receives it, who covers absences and what happens outside working hours. Faster delivery creates value when someone can act on it and verify the underlying information.
Ask for a measurable delivery target rather than relying on the label “real-time”. Establish the starting point for that target, the channels it covers and whether it applies to all sources or selected ones.
Five questions to ask about alert speed.
- What is checked, and how often? Request the schedule for each publication source, including weekends and public holidays.
- What arrives first? Distinguish a new-publication notification from a summary, relevance assessment and suggested actions.
- Can we inspect the timestamps? Compare source availability, detection, assessment and delivery using representative samples. Record where exact times are unavailable.
- What happens when a source or delivery fails? Ask about retries, missed-run detection, recovery and communication to your team.
- What happens when a publication changes? Establish whether corrections or revised documents produce another alert, and how the versions are identified.
Include these answers in your supplier evaluation checklist. A pilot can help you compare the timing a supplier describes with the updates your team actually receives. A small sample informs that review; it does not establish performance for every future publication.
Speed and relevance need to work together.
An alert is more useful when the reviewer can see the official source, why the development relates to the institution, and which dates need attention. Keep publication dates, consultation deadlines, effective dates and proposed internal targets distinct.
For FCA and PRA monitoring, start with a documented source list and a review process that your team can follow. Our guide to tracking FCA and PRA regulatory changes covers official sources and the steps from publication to assessment.
How Comperse delivers updates.
Comperse monitors the FCA, PRA and Bank of England daily, with email updates that help your team review changes by severity, relevance to your entity type and operations, suggested actions and dates.
Review our source and publication coverage for the wider UK scope and activation details. Bring your timing requirements to a walkthrough so we can discuss how the daily service fits your team’s review and escalation process.
Source timing details checked on 13 September 2026 against the FCA subscription page linked above.