Case study: Turning a million records into clear answers
Helping a major financial services organisation respond with confidence
Allens combined legal expertise, data analytics and AI-enabled review tools to help a major financial services organisation identify, connect and assess information across multiple regulatory investigations.
The challenge
Responding to regulatory investigations increasingly requires organisations to navigate vast volumes of information across multiple systems and formats. Understanding how those records relate to one another, and identifying the information that matters most, can be one of the greatest legal and compliance challenges.
In this matter, more than 1 million records needed to be identified, connected and assessed within demanding timeframes while maintaining an auditable and defensible review process.
How Allens helped
Allens established a structured data and review environment that assembled disparate information sources into a single framework. By combining legal expertise, data analytics and AI-enabled review tools, the team automated the extraction and standardisation of key identifiers, connected information across multiple datasets and reduced the volume of material requiring manual assessment.
Technology surfaced patterns, connections and relevant information more quickly, while experienced lawyers applied judgement to validate findings and guide strategic decisions.
Impact
The approach reduced the population requiring manual review by more than 40%, reduced review effort associated with customer identifiers by more than 85%, eliminated more than 470 hours of manual data capture and reduced overall review effort by thousands of legal hours. As a result, the client responded to the regulator in weeks rather than the months a typical review would take.
Why it matters?
Identify the connections
Information spread across systems only makes sense once you can see how it connects.
Find answers faster
Reducing manual review gets you to answers within tight regulatory timeframes.
Stand behind the process
An auditable review lets you show how you reached your conclusions.
In complex investigations, the challenge is rarely a lack of information. It is understanding what to prioritise.
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