Why fines won’t fix the culture behind audit exam cheating
Regulatory fines tend to flatten complicated stories into a single figure. A penalty is announced, headlines follow, firms issue statements and attention soon drifts...
CRS 2.0 is changing what “compliance ready” means
Fund administrators are facing greater pressure from their own clients as CRS 2.0 shifts tax reporting from a periodic compliance exercise towards an ongoing...
Manual filings leave firms exposed as rules multiply
Compliance teams are under mounting pressure to deliver accurate regulatory filings against tight deadlines, even as data volumes swell across fragmented systems.
According to ACA...
EU banks face a major rethink of regulatory reporting
The European Banking Authority (EBA), European Central Bank (ECB) and European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) have opened a consultation on DPM 2.1,...
When does due diligence need to go further?
Standard checks aren't always enough. When a customer or transaction carries more risk than routine screening can handle, firms are required to step up...
What is a GRC framework, and why does it matter now?
Governance, risk and compliance are already present in most organisations, but the difference between running them as a connected system and running them as...
Kaizen names Sam North as chief product officer
Kaizen has appointed Sam North as chief product officer, a move designed to support the firm's next phase of growth.
North joins from DTCC, where...
Embedded finance boom collides with regulatory reckoning
Embedded finance has quietly become the invisible engine behind everyday transactions, powering everything from lending widgets on Shopify dashboards to insurance upsells inside rideshare...
Does regulatory reporting need a rethink?
Regulatory reporting is a core pillar of compliance within financial institutions, but costs and complexity continue to rise, creating a host of challenges. The Bank...
Continuous KYC isn’t enough as risk moves in real time
For decades, financial institutions built their compliance programmes on one core assumption: risk could be assessed on a schedule.
According to Saifr, customer due diligence...













