Compliance Insights Download The Compliance Playbook: Navigating the Financial Services Industry’s Compliance Priorities in 2025The big picture: As we enter the new year, the financial services industry once again faces compliance risks that are increasingly diverse and complex.Priorities by region: For 2025 we asked a larger-than-usual group of Protiviti colleagues across the globe to help identify the most pressing compliance issues in their market.Common areas of concern: Artificial intelligence, financial crime, privacy and security, operational resilience, third party risk management, consumer protection, compliance function optimisation, and resourcing were identified as priorities in all regions.Go deeper: Learn about the top risks facing compliance officers across the globe and priorities for how to effectively manage them.Read Here Download In Case You Missed It FAQ Guide on the Use of AI for Financial Crime Compliance Historically, financial crime detection has involved mostly after-the-fact (hindsight) identification of potentially illicit activity gleaned from reviewing massive amounts of alerts — most of which are non-productive. Enter artificial intelligence (AI), which offers the opportunity not only for better detection results (insight) but for predicting (foresight) when suspicious activity may occur. Add the potential process efficiencies that AI offers across many facets of financial crime compliance programmes, and the large number of companies at risk of being used to facilitate financial crime — and it becomes clear why enterprises are increasingly eager to understand and explore the opportunities. Read More Top Compliance Challenges Facing the Technology Industry in 2025 In the fast-paced world of technology, both regulators and companies face challenges applying existing laws to new and rapid developments. Given the high stakes of non-compliance, which may lead to business restrictions, technology companies’ senior management, boards and compliance teams must clearly understand current and emerging risks, ensuring that they have effective people, processes and controls in place to manage these challenges. Read More Technology-Modernisation Projects Must Define and Deliver Tangible Value to Justify Investment Over the past five years, enterprise spending priorities have shifted significantly. Budgetary pressures, inflation, higher interest rates and the overall global economic climate have compelled businesses to emphasise maximising value and minimising financial risk across all operations. This has had a profound impact on technology projects. Read how organisations can unleash growth with technology modernisation, lower costs and effectively meet regulatory requirements. Read More Trump 2.0: Possible Winners and Losers President-elect Donald Trump will take office in January 2025 with Republican control of both the Senate and the House and with a conservative-leaning Supreme Court. The president-elect has moved quickly to appoint cabinet members, agency heads and other advisers who share his vision. He has also appointed individuals to new roles and created a Department of Government Efficiency. This Flash Report summarises our current thinking on the potential industry winners and losers based on information available, along with sectors that are not clearly in either category. Read More Insights on the Global Compliance Landscape Learn more Topics Cybersecurity and Privacy Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance
