New powers granted to the U.K.’s main competition watchdog will result in greater scrutiny, tougher enforcement, and a stark warning for companies to review their sales and marketing promotions—especially since some practices have been pushed firmly into the spotlight thanks to legislation that came into effect last year.
Risk Management
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The AI On-Ramp: How compliance can prepare to implement AI
In 2026, many compliance officers are hearing the same line in more and more executive leadership team meetings: “We want AI implemented this year.” The phrase sounds reassuring, as if time itself will do the work. It will not.
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Compliance main complaint raised by whistleblowers to U.K. financial regulator
More complaints about compliance are reported to the U.K.’s financial services watchdog than any other kind of potential misconduct, and even if few of them result in investigation or censure, experts believe such reports help inform future supervision and enforcement.
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Sanctions enforcement set to increase, but gaps and inconsistency create compliance risks
Geopolitical volatility is causing rapidly changing sanctions regimes, but diverging rules in different jurisdictions create enforcement gaps that are exploited by sanctioned individuals and entities – and the routes used to evade sanctions are constantly developing.
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If financial services firms don’t want more AI rules, comply with existing regs, experts warn
The U.K.’s financial regulators have long maintained that AI use by banks, insurers, and other financial services firms is already regulated under existing rules, but such assurances are increasingly being questioned.
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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.
