compliance

In general, compliance means conforming to a rule, such as a specification, policy, standard or law. Regulatory compliance describes the goal that organizations aspire to achieve in their efforts to ensure that they are aware of and take steps to comply with relevant laws, policies, and regulations.

Source: merriam-webster.com

Innovation Keeps Expanding Compliance for Mid-Market Firms

Innovation Keeps Expanding Compliance for Mid-Market Firms
Innovation Keeps Expanding Compliance for Mid-Market Firms
July 27, 2026  |  B2B Payments

What mid-market compliance function didn’t exist 10 years ago that now requires a dedicated staff? The simple answer is that it’s most of them. Every...

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The $100 Million CFO Rewrites the Rules on Legal Spend
The $100 Million CFO Rewrites the Rules on Legal Spend
July 17, 2026  |  CFO

Legal spending was once a simple professional-services line item for CFOs. Now it’s an operating problem. Compliance rules, cybersecurity duties, artificial intelligence (AI) governance and...

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Banks Face Compliance-Related Headaches From Iran Deal
Banks Face Compliance-Related Headaches From Iran Deal
June 28, 2026  |  Bank Regulation

The White House is attempting to undo decades of sanctions to halt the Iran war. And this has created a problem for banks as they...

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AI Forces Compliance Teams to Rethink Alert Strategy
AI Forces Compliance Teams to Rethink Alert Strategy
June 25, 2026  |  Fraud Prevention

Financial crime compliance programs are a game of alerts. Or at least they used to be in the pre-AI era, when compliance teams operated on...

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AI Moves Compliance From Detection to Investigation
AI Moves Compliance From Detection to Investigation
June 15, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: The Digital Shift With Flagright’s Baran Ozkan Financial institutions have traditionally treated compliance as a detection problem. And, for years, they’ve put their...

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KYC Models Become Boardroom Issue as Costs Climb
KYC Models Become Boardroom Issue as Costs Climb
June 12, 2026  |  Digital Identity

Compliance executives have traditionally evaluated identity programs by asking whether they satisfied regulators and prevented fraud. But PYMNTS Intelligence research, done in collaboration with Trulioo, indicates...

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Agentic AI and Banks: Who Signs Off on the Machine?
Agentic AI and Banks: Who Signs Off on the Machine?
May 28, 2026  |  Banking

Banks are becoming comfortable with automation. Software reviews transactions, flags suspicious activity, routes documents, generates reports and helps employees complete work more efficiently. Those systems...

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House Hearing Puts Bank-FinTech Oversight in the Spotlight
House Hearing Puts Bank-FinTech Oversight in the Spotlight
May 20, 2026  |  Bank Regulation

Financial infrastructure rarely becomes visible until it breaks. At Wednesday’s (May 20) House Financial Services Committee hearing on bank-FinTech partnerships, lawmakers, banking and FinTech executives...

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