In June of this year, Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority opened an administrative enforcement proceeding against Claro, one of the country’s largest telecom carriers, over the sharing of customer data with Serasa, the largest credit bureau in Latin America.
Opinion
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Practitioner lessons from Prudential Life of Japan’s scandal
Prudential Life Insurance’s scandal in Japan attracted limited attention in the West when it broke in January, but six months on, it has become one of the most consequential compliance failures seen this year.
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The Reverse Information Paradox: The role of compliance in AI governance
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.
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Chris Clarke, CCO at Bloomsbury Money, explains why asset tokenization and risk-based compliance are key FS trends
An early role in AML and due diligence in a client-facing role gave Chris Clarke his first taste of compliance. His background in Jersey, an international financial center that services global markets, made financial services an obvious choice.
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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 in compliance: Are we still driving, or just riding shotgun?
AI may be able to detect risk faster than any compliance team—but it still cannot own accountability.
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The implementation of biodiversity footprinting: Examining supply chains
Biodiversity is foundational to human health, economic stability, and industrial resilience, particularly within the pharmaceutical sector, which is intrinsically dependent on natural ecosystems.
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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 SEC’s crypto taxonomy changes everything. Pending enforcement targets should act now
The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance published a 68-page interpretive release in March that, for the first time, defines what is and is not a security in the digital asset space.
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World Whistleblower Day: Trust determines whether employees speak up
An employee knows something is wrong. They’ve seen the signs. Maybe they’ve quietly weighed the risks for weeks. The question isn’t whether your organization has a hotline. It’s whether employees trust it enough to use it. That question is at the heart of World Whistleblower Day.
