If in 2025 you passed sleepless nights worrying about the ever-evolving pace of technology like AI, you had company—and lots of it, according to Compliance Week’s annual Inside the Mind of the CCO survey.
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AI use cases in compliance: Real-world examples
Download the full report to see how compliance teams are using AI to automate governance workflows, scale multilingual training content, build internal compliance chatbots, and shift from reactive discovery to proactive risk identification.
AI use cases in compliance: Real-world examples
AI is top of mind in compliance. CCOs and their teams are being asked to apply AI tools to compliance use cases in order to reduce manual processes, reduce costs, and reduce (or, in best cases, reallocate) headcount.
Top tips to comply with EU AI Act’s transparency obligation
The EU’s recent decision to release an updated code of practice to help companies better understand the AI Act’s transparency requirements demonstrates the pitfalls that organizations face when trying to comply with rules that many expect to be strictly enforced.
Compliance is not your AI bottleneck. Your operating model is.
The next phase of AI regulation will not wait for the Executive Branch, Congress, or the lawyer at the end of the release cycle. Compliance evidence has to be assembled while the system assembles, or it will not assemble fast enough.
New code for AI Act compliance will be ‘de facto’ standard, say experts
The European Union has issued updated guidance to help companies better understand—as well as comply with—the transparency requirements that underpin the bloc’s groundbreaking legislation aimed at ensuring safe AI use.
Auditors who use AI cannot blame the tech for mistakes, says U.K. regulator
The U.K.’s audit regulator has issued what it says is the world’s first guidance on the use of generative AI and agentic AI in auditing. This sets out where AI should and shouldn’t be used in auditing, and why audit firms will not be able to blame the tech if it goes wrong.
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.
U.K. joins global trend for AI-enabled regulatory supervision
The U.K. financial regulator is expanding its remit and planning to deploy AI to manage its increased workload. This is part of a global trend and has significant compliance implications.
Gartner director Stuart Strome on how compliance can shift from the ‘no’ department to an instigator of innovation
AI governance is crucial to organizational innovation, according to Stuart Strome, director at Gartner. Businesses that lead corporate governance initiatives around AI will be better placed to manage regulatory risks and facilitate technological advances without increasing friction.


