Tag: governance

Why FinTech’s best controls fail quietly, not loudly

Corlytics' latest Global Enforcement Report has surfaced an uncomfortable pattern: the organisations most often hit with regulatory enforcement rarely lacked controls altogether. According to Corlytics,...

Why spreadsheets are the MLRO’s biggest hidden risk

There comes a point in every MLRO's tenure when it becomes impossible to ignore that the organisation has outgrown its manual, Excel-based financial crime...

Why AI governance is shaping insurance’s next phase

The insurance sector is moving beyond AI experimentation and towards more structured adoption, with governance, accountability and decision intelligence becoming central themes at MGAA...

Banks face rising control costs with no defensible reason

Ask a bank how many controls it operates and a confident answer is rare. Ask how many it actually needs, and which ones, and...

Who owns compliance when AI runs AML?

As AI becomes embedded across anti-money laundering (AML) workflows, the RegTech industry faces a defining tension: how to scale automation without eroding accountability. According...

Why residual risk exposes the myth of control comfort

On paper, most financial institutions appear well defended. Policies are documented, procedures mapped, systems described as resilient, staff trained and audits scheduled. The result...

The FCA’s sanctions review and why it demands urgent firm action

The FCA's latest sanctions review, spanning more than 150 firms, is far more than another best-practice publication. According to ACA Group, it signals how...

FCA trims SM&CR: streamlining or a new culture risk?

The FCA and PRA have confirmed a package of changes to the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR), reducing the number of certified persons,...

How complacency blinds firms to financial crime threats

Most financial crime failures are not born of dramatic collapse or blatant negligence. Instead, they build slowly through hundreds of minor decisions, ignored warning...

The hidden risk of all-in-one compliance platforms

Financial services firms are becoming larger, more complex and increasingly interconnected, but that does not necessarily mean their compliance technology should follow the same...

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