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title: "What compliance rules does LUSID support?"
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updated: 2025-07-21T12:55:40Z
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canonical: "support.lusid.com/what-compliance-rules-does-lusid-support"
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# What compliance rules does LUSID support?

LUSID enables you to create, configure and monitor a wide range of pre-trade and post-trade compliance rules, including:

- Regulatory framework rules such as UCITS and US Mutual Funds
- Risk management and performance rules such as VaR and exposure limits
- Proprietary portfolio management rules such as investment limits, sanction lists and ESG guidelines
- Third party compliance rules

> [!WARNING]
> Important
> 
> LUSID provides you with building blocks and exemplar compliance rule templates for you to configure your own compliance rules. You are responsible for ensuring the correctness of your rules.

A compliance rule in LUSID is a sequence of filtering and grouping operations performed on a set of holdings, followed by a final check. You can use and combine these operations to meet a wide range of regulatory and proprietary trading rules.

LUSID provides you with compliance rule templates covering common compliance rules that make it simple for you to configure the rules you need, for example:

- Percent contribution check
- Absolute value check
- Property within specified range or defined list

You can leverage LUSID’s extensible data model to support compliance rules that use:

- LUSID [valuation metrics](/v1/docs/what-is-a-metric) such as `Valuation/PV`
- [Properties](/v1/docs/properties) such as country of origin
- [Reference lists](/v1/docs/using-reference-lists-in-lusid) such as a list of European equities
- Third party data points, such as ESG data from an [integration](/v1/docs/third-party-data-integrations) you subscribe to

For example, you might use a percent check compliance rule template…

> [!NOTE]
> No holding of an instrument or group of instruments in list **x** should contribute more than **p**% of value **v** to any given portfolio.

…to configure the following compliance rule:

> [!NOTE]
> No holding of an **instrument in reference list European Equities** should contribute more than **10**% of **PV** to any given portfolio.

[See how to create a compliance rule.](/v1/docs/how-do-i-create-a-compliance-rule)

Your position in an underlying instrument held in a transaction portfolio. LUSID does not maintain a static record of your holdings in a portfolio but rather generates them on demand from the stored history of transactions, replayed in date order.

An instrument mastered in LUSID represents a financial asset you own or have exposure to. LUSID enables you to model a wide range of securities using instrument types.