Podcast | Advantages of Greater Legal and Compliance Collaboration

In a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape, the integration of compliance and legal functions has never been more crucial. In the latest installment of the Protiviti Legal Perspectives podcast series, podcast host Chad Volkert and Protiviti Managing Directors Tom Giltrow and Kaitlin Kirkham-Cooper delve into how legal and compliance departments can work in tandem to navigate the complex regulatory environments of the financial services and technology sectors. Our podcast guests share their insights on optimizing workflows, defining clear roles, and embracing a unified strategy for risk management. This episode is a must-listen for professionals seeking to enhance their organizational strategy through improved operational efficiency and partnership between legal and compliance roles.

Compliance and legal often partner or share responsibility, identifying legal and regulatory changes, but then where some of those handoffs occur is actually on the implementation side. Thomas Giltrow, Managing Director

There isn't always that clear risk or compliance line of defense, or that second line, in technology companies that we see within financial services. Some of the ambiguity or lack of definition is really a result of there not being a ton of prescriptive regulation in the regulatory environment, at least here in the US. Kaitlin Kirkham-Cooper, Managing Director