By Ruth Prickett2025-09-30T20:04:00
Regulators worldwide are piling pressure on retail compliance teams, focusing on global supply chains, rapidly changing sanctions and tariffs rules, sustainability, and digital commerce. High-profile cyberattacks have increased concerns about data security and identity verification. Large retailers are also pushing commercial and legal requirements further down their supply chains.
Compliance teams in all retail businesses, therefore, face a host of new and developing challenges. They require more information than ever about where products originate, how they are made, and what they are made of. Financial operations, loyalty programs, and food sales, among other critical product areas, put them in highly regulated markets in many parts of the world. As huge data holders, they are under increasing pressure to ensure privacy and to report breaches.
2025-10-10T20:56:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Extra-territorial rules are an increasing risk for global organizations as governments add regulations governing AI, fraud, tariffs, and sanctions to existing laws on bribery and corruption. Complex supply chains and requirements for global due diligence extend the strong arm of the law ever further.
2025-10-08T20:08:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Private companies that are keen to trade their shares but do not wish to become listed have gained another way to trade their shares. The U.K. government completed its initial review and published rules for the system in June.
2025-09-29T20:59:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Most major organizations are not changing their ESG reporting plans, despite “regulatory ambiguity”, according to a report by consultancy KPMG. The researchers say this indicates market expectations are driving action as much as legal requirements.
2025-10-20T19:28:00Z By Neil Hodge
Companies face increased risk of cyberattacks, data loss, and even regulatory action because employees are using unapproved “shadow AI” tools to help with work-related tasks.
2025-09-26T19:30:00Z By Neil Hodge
Companies working in the metals and mining sectors face increased compliance checks due to efforts to clamp down on abuses in the supply chain, while “volatile” geopolitical changes make sourcing and transporting raw materials more difficult and expensive.
2025-04-24T12:00:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Director accountability is back in the spotlight in the U.K., even as the government pushes for regulatory simplification to cut red tape and drive growth. This raises questions about how boards can be encouraged to take risks to grow their businesses while also being held more accountable for governance failings. ...
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