Financial crime is becoming faster, smarter, and more difficult to trace. By 2026, banks and regulators will approach compliance with a new mindset. The shift is away from reaction and toward prevention, partnership, and people.
Opinion
Posted inAnti-Bribery
Time to end “desktop compliance” in public procurement in Latin America
Global corporate compliance has reached an inflection point. For years, multinational corporations have based their Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) programs in Latin America on standardized questionnaires and certificates issued by local governments.
Posted inRisk Management
From enforcer to coach: Engineering compliance that happens at speed
New Gartner research reveals why traditional risk management is failing to keep pace with modern risks, and outlines how compliance leaders must enable organizational risk owners to build an instinctive Risk Reflex.
Posted inRisk Management
Leveraging COSO to mitigate AI risk: A step-by-step guide
AI elevates compliance, or exposes it. The technology presents compliance leaders and lawyers with an extraordinary opportunity to elevate their roles, as well as an equally extraordinary risk of accountability when AI fails, misleads, discriminates, hallucinates, or generates unreliable outputs.
Posted inTechnology
The third party you forgot to vet: AI tools and the TPRM blind spot in manufacturing
AI tools are arriving through the back door of enterprise software — no contract, no due diligence, no TPRM trigger — and most manufacturing compliance functions have no idea they are already inside, writes Lydia Montalbano.
Posted inRisk Management
Does attorney-client privilege extend to exchanges with AI platforms? U.S. courts offer mixed messages
Federal court judges in New York and Michigan have offered split rulings on whether AI prompts seeking information from AI platforms are subject to the attorney-client privilege.
Posted inEthics & Culture
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.
Posted inBoards & Shareholders
Institutional resilience: Why remediation fails without independent governance challenge
Changing governance and internal controls in response to recent enforcement actions cannot mask a fundamental deficiency: remediation is not changing the way decisions are being made, allowing the same mistakes to happen over and over.
Posted inTechnology
How to responsibly roll out AI in compliance, from a former Google exec
Compliance officers across the economy are being told to adopt AI – to save costs, increase and expand compliance coverage through more real-time and contextualized information, navigate the ever-changing regulatory landscape, and leverage more analytical firepower to make better decisions.
Posted inRisk Management
Rethinking war risk in an era of persistent conflict
For many organizations, “war risk” still sounds like a niche concern, something reserved for defense contractors, energy companies, or humanitarian organizations operating near active conflict. Over the past several years, that assumption has quietly eroded, particularly for the insurance industry.
