Regulatory Agencies Inventory and Attributes

Each regulatory agency has jurisdiction over specific legal entities — the specific registered legal persons that are subject to its requirements. The Legal Entities Inventory (not yet published — refer to the IF4IT Enterprise Inventory Management Best Practices document) will govern all legal entities that make up the enterprise, including subsidiaries, joint ventures, and regulated entities. When published, it will reference the Regulatory Agency Semantic IDs for the agencies that have formal jurisdiction over each legal entity.

This relationship is particularly important for enterprises with complex corporate structures operating across multiple jurisdictions. A subsidiary incorporated in Ireland is subject to the Irish Data Protection Commission as its lead supervisory authority under GDPR. A separately licensed broker-dealer subsidiary in the U.S. is subject to FINRA. A banking subsidiary in Germany is subject to BaFin. The compliance obligations of each legal entity derive from the regulatory agencies that have jurisdiction over that entity — not from the enterprise as a whole. The connection between the Regulatory Agencies Inventory and the Legal Entities Inventory captures this entity-level regulatory mapping.