Compliance and risk executives in the finance sector are working at a fever pitch to meet the compliance and reporting obligations that accompany the Dodd-Frank Act, and they are pushing their IT systems to keep up.

Yet building the necessary IT infrastructure for Dodd-Frank compliance amid so much regulatory uncertainty is not making the job any easier.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...