AI use creates hidden knowledge transfer to providers, raising governance, IP, and third-party risk issues. Compliance officers need to define ownership boundaries and contract protections around AI interactions.
Tom Fox
Thomas Fox has practiced law for over 40 years. Tom writes the daily award-winning blog, the FCPA Compliance and Ethics blog and founded the Compliance Podcast Network. Tom leads the discussion on AI in compliance through his best-selling book Upping Your Game. He has 38 other books on the use of AI in compliance and business ethics, leadership including the seminal work, The Compliance Handbook, with its 7th edition coming out in 2025. He is the founder of the award-winning Compliance Podcast Network.
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The hidden compliance cost of building AI-based AML tools in-house
“We can build that internally” sounds like control and savings — until the subject is AML risk assessment technology. A simple internal build can quietly become a governance liability. The real question isn’t whether the tool can be built, but whether it can be governed.
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AI, Data, and the Compliance Mandate: Lessons from APAC
AI governance is no longer a future-state exercise. It is a current control environment issue.
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The Tower of Babel and compliance role in AI governance
Recently,Pope Leo XIV issued his first Papal Encyclical Letter, titled Magnifica Humanitas “On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.” The document places AI within the long tradition of Catholic social teaching and asks how humanity should respond to the “new things” of the digital age. I wanted to review it from a compliance angle.
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A compliance farewell to Barney Frank
Barney Frank died Tuesday at the age of 86. Few Congressmen’s names are associated with generational financial reform, and Barney Frank is one of them.
Posted inRisk Management
AI governance: The new compliance imperative
Artificial intelligence has moved from the innovation lab to the operating core of the modern enterprise. That shift has profound implications for corporate compliance professionals. AI is no longer simply a technology issue for the CIO, a legal issue for the general counsel, or a cybersecurity issue for the CISO. It is now a governance […]
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AI, finance and the new compliance mandate in APAC
A new report tells a story that compliance professionals should read carefully. While the report focuses on finance leaders across Asia Pacific, the real lesson for compliance is much broader: artificial intelligence is no longer a future-state technology discussion. It is now an operating model, risk management, governance, and controls issue. For CCOs, that means AI must move from the innovation agenda to the compliance agenda.
Posted inTechnology
MAS’s agentic AI playbook offers a governance lesson for every regulated industry
Singapore’s new AI risk handbook is more than a financial services toolkit. It is an early blueprint for how compliance, legal, and business leaders should govern agentic AI before the technology outruns their controls.
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GSA’s draft AI Clause turns governance into a contractual mandate
A sweeping proposed federal procurement clause would push AI oversight out of policy decks and into compliance operations, vendor management, and real-time control testing.
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An appreciation of CW’s data and research journalist, Aly McDevitt
One of the best things about writing for Compliance Week is reading the fabulous work by my colleagues. For me, CW data and research journalist Aly McDevitt has always stood out as someone whose work in reporting on and writing the Compliance Week case studies is work I have greatly admired.