Leveraging human and financial resources to meet higher compliance expectations

Dr Ilona Niemi
Additional contact information
Dr Ilona Niemi: Group Chief Compliance Officer, The Co-operators Group Limited, Canada

Journal of Financial Compliance, 2021, vol. 4, issue 4, 353-362

Abstract: The ongoing digitalisation and data-driven approaches in financial services require compliance functions to meet higher expectations. The compliance teams have increasingly obtained a role as trust enablers for the corporate brand and guardians of company reputation. To deliver value in the digital age, compliance must focus on outcomes at the company level instead of delivering outputs. This will require compliance to optimise and refine the interaction of human and financial resources at a higher level. To be in a position to meet these higher outcome expectations, compliance functions are required to enable holistic oversight across all entities and jurisdictions. This will require viewing compliance programmes as a system consisting of people, processes and tools. The recent Citibank case from October 2020 related to deficiencies in enterprise-wide and compliance risk management, as well as its data governance and internal controls, is leveraged to frame the selected approach. This paper defines three core levers which are required to be in place in order to introduce holistic compliance oversight based on system thinking: a new collaborative compliance programme governance, a single source of truth technology and a rigorous prioritisation of compliance talent agenda.

Keywords: compliance outcome; compliance budget; trust; reputation; digitalisation; data-driven; Citibank case; holistic compliance oversight; compliance programme; collaborative governance; single source of truth; governance risk compliance (GRC); compliance talent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E5 G2 K2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://hstalks.com/article/6380/download/ (application/pdf)
https://hstalks.com/article/6380/ (text/html)
Requires a paid subscription for full access.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aza:jfc000:y:2021:v:4:i:4:p:353-362

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Financial Compliance from Henry Stewart Publications
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Henry Stewart Talks ().