Tag: financial regulation

The hidden price of AML failure goes far beyond fines

Regulatory heat is intensifying across South Africa's financial sector, and headline-grabbing AML fines are only part of the story. A multi-million-rand penalty makes for...

Why regulators are betting big on cloud and AI

Financial regulators are facing growing pressure to modernise their technology infrastructure as rising data volumes, increasingly complex markets and new regulatory demands test traditional...

Multi-market growth is multiplying compliance risk, fast

More assets than ever now sit across three or more jurisdictions, and the compliance surface area facing global asset managers has never been larger,...

Insider trading risk evolves as digital markets expand

Insider trading risk is no longer confined to traditional securities, and compliance teams are being pushed to catch up with markets that never sleep....

Why banks need to break regulatory data silos

Risk, finance and regulatory reporting have traditionally operated as separate functions across financial institutions. While this structure has allowed teams to develop specialised processes,...

GRC failures happen at the joins, not within the steps

Governance, risk and compliance have operated as three separate disciplines for decades, but GRC makes the case for running them as one connected system...

Why fund administrators can no longer treat CRS as annual

Fund administrators are facing a new form of scrutiny as CRS 2.0 raises the bar for tax reporting and compliance. Increasingly, the pressure is...

The hidden compliance failure driving financial crises

The collapse of FTX in November 2022 did not happen because rules were missing. Disclosure requirements were in place, and regulators in multiple jurisdictions...

Why fear of risk is finance’s biggest risk

Financial services firms can invest in sophisticated risk technology, but those systems will have limited impact if organisations continue to view risk primarily as...

Finance sector needs its own AI rulebook, study says

Durham University Business School has published a study calling for a dedicated regulatory framework to govern the use of artificial intelligence within financial services. The...

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