Evidence your auditor will actually read.

The check itself isn’t the deliverable. The record is.

Regulated firms are expected to demonstrate that they actively monitor the firms they work with. It isn’t enough to say you checked – you need the dates, the details, and evidence of what you found and how you responded.

Spreadsheets and ad hoc logs are fragile: they rely on someone remembering to update them, and they get harder to keep up as your watchlist grows. Firmwatcher records each acknowledgement as your team makes it, so the record builds itself. Combined with daily FRN monitoring, you get both the coverage and the evidence.

Captured automatically – no manual upkeep.

• Acks
  Acknowledgements

  When a team member reviews and acknowledges an alert, their name, the time and their comment are recorded.

• Watchlist
  Watchlist changes

  Every firm or individual added to or removed from the watchlist, with who did it and when.

• Dates
  Effective and detected dates

  Each alert shows the effective date the register gives and when Firmwatcher detected it, so you can show how quickly your team responded.

• Export
  CSV export

  Export alerts and the audit log as CSV for your own records, an internal audit or a supervisory visit.

Four things an auditor tends to ask for.

1. 01
   Daily monitoring, not periodic

   The audit log shows when each firm was added to the watchlist, and the watchlist shows when each was last checked – every morning, not just at quarterly intervals.

2. 02
   Timely response to new entries

   Detected dates on alerts and timestamps on acknowledgements show how quickly your team picked up each one.

3. 03
   Reasoning, not just the outcome

   The comment on each acknowledgement captures why you decided an alert did or didn’t need escalation.

4. 04
   A record you can hand over

   Export alerts and the audit log as CSV and filter them to the firm or period the auditor asks about.