SOLUTION

Vendor and Third-Party Control Assurance

Outsourcing moves the activity and keeps the accountability. Whether you are the regulated entity or the provider it depends on, the same clauses have to be proven.

Obligation register4 obligations
  1. 01Reserve Bank of IndiaThe incident clock was honoured.clause-mapped
  2. 02Reserve Bank of IndiaThe vendor inventory is current, not just present.clause-mapped
  3. 03Reserve Bank of IndiaDue diligence happened, at onboarding and at renewal.clause-mapped
  4. 04Reserve Bank of IndiaMonitoring and audit are running, not scheduled.clause-mapped

The problem

One clause set. Two burdens. No shared evidence.

A regulated entity must show that each provider was diligenced, monitored, audited and covered by exit terms, and that a provider's incident reached the regulator inside its clock. Every one of those duties requires something from the provider. Today that exchange runs on questionnaires, spreadsheets and annual audits, so neither side has continuous evidence and both are accountable as though they did.

  1. 01

    If you outsource

    You are the regulated entity. The activity moved; the accountability did not. You need to prove that every arrangement was diligenced at onboarding and at renewal, that your register matches what is actually running, that monitoring and audits happened inside their required frequency, and that a provider incident reached RBI inside six hours of detection.

    What changes with AssureNode

    Your provider's compliance state is computed continuously from signals, not collected annually by questionnaire. A lapsed review or a missing register entry surfaces as a failed control, not as an audit finding.

  2. 02

    If you are the provider

    Your clients are regulated entities, and their obligations become your workload. Every bank client sends its own due diligence questionnaire, its own audit, its own SLA reporting format, on its own cycle. You answer the same questions repeatedly and you carry the incident-notification duty that starts their six-hour clock.

    What changes with AssureNode

    Your compliance state is proven once, continuously, from your own systems, and the same evidence serves every client that asks. Questionnaire responses stop being a project.

What it proves

4 obligations.

  1. 01
    Reserve Bank of India
    clause-mapped

    The incident clock was honoured.

    For every incident, the detection timestamp, the time the provider notified you, the time you notified RBI, and the resulting margin against the six-hour limit. Where a clock is running, that it is visible before it expires rather than after.

    RBI Managing Risks in Outsourcing Directions, 2025
  2. 02
    Reserve Bank of India
    clause-mapped

    The vendor inventory is current, not just present.

    That every live outsourcing arrangement appears in the inventory, that each entry has been evaluated inside its review period, and that sub-contractor dependencies are recorded rather than assumed.

    RBI Managing Risks in Outsourcing Directions, 2025
  3. 03
    Reserve Bank of India
    clause-mapped

    Due diligence happened, at onboarding and at renewal.

    That each arrangement has a due diligence record tied to its onboarding date, and that renewals triggered a fresh assessment rather than an automatic rollover.

    RBI Managing Risks in Outsourcing Directions, 2025
  4. 04
    Reserve Bank of India
    clause-mapped

    Monitoring and audit are running, not scheduled.

    That SLA adherence is being evaluated continuously against the terms actually contracted, and that each provider's audit fell inside its risk-based frequency rather than slipping quietly.

    RBI Managing Risks in Outsourcing Directions, 2025

The same obligation can appear in several Directions, one per entity class, with different clause numbers. AssureNode binds your control to the clause in the instrument that applies to you.

What you get

Answers that already exist.

A live vendor register

Every arrangement, its review status, and the arrangements running in your systems that are not on the register.

Incident clocks

Every reportable incident with its elapsed time, and every clock currently running.

Due diligence completeness

Which arrangements have a current assessment, and which renewed without one.

SLA adherence

Computed continuously against contracted terms, not reported monthly by the vendor.

See one of these obligations proven on your own signals.

A free scoping review. One obligation, one source system, two weeks.

We are selecting design partners for each solution. Early partners decide which obligations we prove first.