Patent ID: 7958027

Claim:
A computer implemented method for managing regulatory and reputational risk, the method comprising the steps of: receiving into a computer system data descriptive of informational artifacts with content related to at least one of reputational and regulatory risk; receiving into the computer system transaction data descriptive of a financial transaction, wherein the transaction data comprises an indication of at least one defined geo-political area associated with the financial transaction; scrubbing by the computer system the received informational artifacts data and financial transaction data obtaining information by the computer system regarding one or more geo-political areas; determining a transactional jurisdiction associated with the scrubbed financial transaction data based on the at least one geo-political area; retrieving by the computer system a predetermined policy related to the at least one geo-political area associated with the financial transaction data for transmission to an appropriate destination; associating by the computer system at least one informational artifact related to at least one of reputational and regulatory risk with the at least one geo-political area associated with the financial transaction based at least in part on the determined transactional jurisdiction and the retrieved policy; and generating by the computer system a report comprising data descriptive of the informational artifacts associated with the at least one geo-political area, the transactional jurisdiction and the retrieved policy associated with the financial transaction.