LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance

The Archer LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance integration allows you to automatically import regulatory compliance data directly into the Archer Policy Program Management and Corporate Obligations Management use cases. The enhancements made to the solutions allows users view the regulatory alerts linked to the regulatory obligations. Archer Corporate Obligations Management then delivers the tools you need to analyze regulatory news, automatically notify responsible personnel, and proactively address issues before they impact your organization.  Additionally, Archer produces real-time reports and user-specific dashboards to view regulatory news, type, and impact to your organization, and to monitor the overall status of your regulatory change management program.

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Release notes

Release Version

Release Date

Notes

Archer 2024.11

March 2026

Bug fix: Updated the LexisNexis JavaScript file to handle HTTP 404 responses returned by the Lexis Nexis Enhanced Content APIs when no data is available, preventing Lexis Nexis data feeds (Mandates/Regulators) from being marked as faulted.

Known issues / limitations

Component

Description

Mandates Content

The Mandates data feed are mapped to the 4 levels in the Authoritative Sources application. If users need > 4 levels (Based on LexisNexis Content Subscription) mapping, then users need to reconfigure Authoritative Sources to accommodate them. See Mandates for more information.

Overview

LexisNexis is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. Across the globe, LexisNexis combines information, technology and analytics to advance the rule of law and shape a more just world where all are equal under the law. LexisNexis offers various types of content.

  • Regulatory Compliance data feeds. Content is delivered via Control Standards, Regulatory Intelligence Items and Tools (ODA).

  • Enhanced Content data feeds is an Add-on to the existing LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance. Content is delivered via Authoritative Sources and Regulators (ODA).

The LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance integration offer a seamless solution to streamline your regulatory compliance processes automatically importing essential regulatory compliance data directly into Archer Policy Program Management and Archer Corporate Obligations Management use cases. This integration empowers users to access and review regulatory alerts directly linked to specific regulatory obligations.

Archer Corporate Obligations Management further enhances your capabilities by providing essential tools for in-depth regulatory news analysis, automated notifications to responsible personnel, and proactive issue resolution—ensuring potential problems are addressed before they impact your organization.

Incorporating LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance - Enhanced Content, users can easily access and view comprehensive information about regulations (mandates) and their designated regulators, all seamlessly linked back to the associated regulatory obligations.

Achieve regulatory compliance excellence with LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance integration, which consolidates data from multiple regulatory bodies, streamlines management of regulations, laws, and requirements, offers real-time alerts, supports documentation of impact, and facilitates robust compliance reporting.

The LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance integration automatically imports regulatory content into Archer Policy Program Management and Corporate Obligations Management. The integration enables users to view regulations (mandates), regulatory obligations, and related alerts in one unified solution. Archer provides real‑time reports and role‑based dashboards to track mandate compliance, analyze regulatory news and impact, notify responsible parties, and monitor the overall status of regulatory change management—helping organizations proactively address regulatory risk.

Features and benefits

LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance integration with Archer enables organizations to:

  • Consolidate information from multiple regulatory bodies.

  • Receive alerts regarding changes or references to these regulatory obligations.

  • Document the impact and sustain a repeatable auditable regulatory change program.

  • Report on activities related to regulatory issue remediation.

  • Implement a consistent and repeatable regulatory change management process.

  • Centrally manage Regulations, Laws and Requirements and map them to Regulators, Obligations and Policies.

  • Report on overall compliance of the Regulation within the organization and activities related to regulatory issue remediation.

The benefits of the LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance integration with Archer are as follows.

  • Streamlined Compliance Management: Automates the tracking and interpretation of regulatory obligations, reducing manual effort and improving accuracy.

  • Risk Reduction: Helps organizations proactively identify and address compliance gaps, minimizing legal and operational risks.

  • Up-to-Date Legal Content: Provides continuously updated legal and regulatory content curated by LexisNexis experts, ensuring organizations stay ahead of changes.

  • Seamless Archer Integration: Integrates directly with Archer, enabling efficient workflows and centralized compliance reporting within existing risk frameworks.

Components & architecture

Prerequisites (system requirements)

Components

Requirement

Archer Solution

Regulatory & Corporate Compliance Management

Archer Use Case(s)

  • Archer Policy Program Management

  • Archer Corporate Obligations Management

Archer Applications

  • Control Standards

  • Regulatory Intelligence Items

  • Authoritative Sources

Uses Custom Object

No

Requires Archer On-Demand Application (ODA) License
  • One (1) Archer On-Demand Application (ODA) license for Regulators (Source Data Integration Add-On)

  • One (1) Archer On-Demand Application (ODA) license for Tools (Foundational Integration)

Archer Requirements

Archer Platform Release 2024.11 or later

Supported Archer Environments
  • Archer On-Premises

  • Archer SaaS

LexisNexis Requirements

Valid LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance license is required for Obligations Alerts and Tools content.

Valid LexisNexis Enhanced Content license is required for Mandates and Regulators content.

Customers need to configure and install the necessary components based on their LexisNexis content subscription. The Archer Package supports Obligations / Sub-Obligations, Alerts, Tools, Mandates and Regulators content from LexisNexis.

Integration flow

The following diagram provides an overview of interaction between LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance and Archer.

The integration process follows the following flow:

  1. The Archer data feed for the LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance Integration pulls the data from the source: LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance API URL and imports the data into Target: Control Standards, Regulatory Intelligence Items Application and Tools ODA.

  2. When the user logins into the LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance URL, a list of all the obligations, sub-obligations, alerts/notifications, and tools available are visible.

The following diagram provides an overview of interaction between LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance - Enhanced Content and Archer.

Graphical user interface  Description automatically generated

The integration process follows the following flow:

  1. The Archer data feed for the LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance Enhanced Content Integration pulls the data from the source: LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance Enhanced Content API URL and imports the data into Target: Authoritative Sources application and Regulators ODA.

  2. When the user logins into the LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance Enhanced Content URL, a list of all the Mandates and Regulators available are visible.

Installing & configuring LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance

This section provides instructions for configuring the LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance offering with the Archer Platform.  This document is not intended to suggest optimum installations or configurations. 

It is assumed that the reader has both working knowledge of all products involved, and the ability to perform the tasks outlined in this section. Administrators should have access to the product documentation for all products to install the required components.

All LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance links must be working prior to the integration. Perform the necessary tests to confirm that this is true before proceeding. 

  1. Install the package.

  2. Configure control standards application.

  3. Configure regulatory intelligence items application.

  4. Configure authoritative sources application.

  5. Configure the data feed.

  6. Set up the LexisNexis regulatory compliance data feeds.

  7. Schedule the data feeds.

Install the package

Configure control standards application

Configure regulatory intelligence items application

Configure authoritative sources application

Configure the data feed

Set up the LexisNexis regulatory compliance data feeds

Important: Before you upload a JavaScript file, configure JavaScript Transporter settings in the Archer Control Panel. For more information, see Configure the JavaScript Transporter Settings.

The following data feeds are used as part of the LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance Integration process:

  • LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance data feeds are JavaScript transporter data feeds that retrieves data (Obligations, Sub-Obligations, Alerts and Tools related data) from the LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance API URL and creates and updates the records in the Archer Control Standard, Regulatory Intelligence Items and Tools application.

  • LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance Enhanced Content data feeds are JavaScript transporter data feeds that retrieves data (Mandates and Regulators related data) from the LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance Enhanced Content API URL and creates and updates the records in the Archer Authoritative Sources and Regulators application.

All data feeds must be configured. After setting up the data feeds, you can schedule them to run as needed per your organization’s requirements. Due to the nature of the LexisNexis API not supporting concurrent calls, it is recommended to run the data feeds in a convoy. For more information on Scheduling data feeds, see the Scheduling Data Feeds section.

There are 9 data feeds created for this integration and needs to be run in the following order:

  • 01 LexisNexis - Obligations/Sub-Obligations

  • 02 LexisNexis – Alerts

  • 03 LexisNexis – Tools

  • 04 LexisNexis – Mandates (Full Load)

  • 05 LexisNexis - Mandates Sub Section Refresh (Differential)

  • 06 LexisNexis - Mandates Section Refresh (Differential)

  • 07 LexisNexis - Mandates Topic Refresh (Differential)

  • 08 LexisNexis - Mandates Source Refresh (Differential)

  • 09 LexisNexis – Regulators

Note: 04 LexisNexis – Mandates (Full Load) data feed only needs to be run once in the beginning and then deactivated. Due to the large volume of Mandates source content and the frequency of the data feed is scheduled to run Hourly. it is recommended to run the data feed during the weekend.

Below are the steps to set up the feeds:

Schedule data feeds

When you schedule a data feed, the Data Feed Manager validates the information. If any information is invalid, an error message will display. You can save the data feed and correct the errors later, but that data feed is not processed until the errors are rectified.

Important: A data feed must be active and valid to successfully run.

  1. Go to the Schedule tab of the data feed that you want to modify.

    1. From the menu bar, click  .

    2. Under Integration, click Data Feeds.

    3. Select the data feed you want to modify.

    4. Click the Schedule tab.

  2. In the Recurrences section, enter the frequency, start and stop times, and time zone for the data feed.

  3. (Optional) In the Run Data Feed Now section, click Start to override the data feed schedule and run the data feed immediately. 

  4. Click Save.

               The following table describes the fields in the Recurrences section.

Field

Description

Frequency

Specifies the interval in which the data feed runs.

  • By minute: Runs the data feed by the minute interval set. For example, if you specify 45 in every list, the data feed executes every 45 minutes.

  • Hourly: Runs the data feed by the hourly interval set. For example, every hour (1), every other hour (2), and so forth.

  • Daily: Runs the data feed by the daily internal set. For example, every day (1), every other day (2), and so forth.

  • Weekly: Runs the data feed based on a specified day of the week. For example, every Monday of the first week (1), every other Monday (2), and so forth.

  • Monthly: Runs the data feed based on a specified week of the month. For example, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or Last.

  • Reference: Runs a specified data feed as runs before the current one. This option indicates to the Data Feed Service that this data feed starts as soon as the referenced data feed completes successfully. From the Reference Feed list, select after which existing data feed the current data feed starts. A reference data feed will not run when immediately running a data feed. The Data Feed Now option only runs the current data feed.

Every

Specifies the interval of the frequency in which the data feed runs.

Start Time

Specifies the time the data feed begins running.

Start Date

Specifies the date on which the data feed schedule begins.

Time Zone

Specifies the time zone in of the server that runs the data feed.

  1. Test the data feed to ensure that all obligation, alerts, and tools details from LexisNexis were imported into the Control Standard, Regulatory Intelligence Items and tools application. If testing fails, try verifying the data feed and re-run. If you experience multiple failures, please contact your Partner.

Troubleshooting the installation

Concurrent API Calls

The LexisNexis authentication API does not support concurrent calls. Please ensure when the data feed is configured and executing, no other instances (example: data feeds) is calling the LexisNexis API with the same credentials at the same time.

LexisNexis 404 API Response Code

It has been observed that (most often) during public holidays and weekends, Lexis Nexis does not update mandates. As a result, the API returns a 404 error response code. Due to this, the Archer data feeds fail as a 404 error response code indicates the requested resource is not found. The normal behavior for this case would be for the Lexis Nexis API to return a 200 error response code and the response data could be an empty JSON object/array. However, this specific Lexis Nexis system behavior executes out of the normal behavior pattern.

Please note that the data feed should execute successfully in the next scheduled run if the returned API response code is the 200-error response code.

Upgrading LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance

JavaScript code has been updated to support process large volume of Mandates source content in the Integration. A new data feed is created only for the one-time full load of Mandates data.

If users are using existing LexisNexis Integration and wish to upgrade the Integration by utilizing the latest package, following steps is recommended:

  • Utilize the latest JS file included in the package for the data feeds.

  • Import the newly created Mandates (Full Load) data feed.

  • After completion of all the pages of the Mandates content. Inactivate the Data Feed.

    • Data Feed Tokens: PreviousRunContext token is used to identify the end of the content pages. After data feed completes, PreviousRunContext is set 0 indicates that there are no further content or pages to be import.

Key

Value

PreviousRunContext

[Valid value]

Default = [empty]

The value for the PreviousRunContext is set by the data feed.

Ex:

“” = Beginning of the page.

“1000” = Page index.

“0” = End of Page.

  • Activate and use the existing Mandates (Differential feeds) for daily updates.

Certification environment

Date Tested: October 2025

Product Name

Release Information

Operating System

Archer Suite

2024.11.2 (build 6.15.00402)

Virtual Appliance

LexisNexis

API v1.1, API v2.0

NA