Regulatory change is constant, cross-border, and increasingly interconnected across areas such as data protection, sanctions, ESG, AI governance, and workplace regulation. For compliance leaders, the challenge is building systems and strategies that remain effective under sustained pressure.
Our new guide, Thriving in a volatile regulatory landscape: A playbook for compliance leaders, draws on insights from more than 1,500 compliance professionals and over 11,000 individual survey responses collected over the past 18 months.
The result is a clear, evidence-based look at where compliance programmes are falling short and what leading teams are doing differently.
The data highlights some stark realities. Nearly 45% of organisations cite keeping up with changing regulations as their biggest compliance challenge, while 30% say only some suppliers are required to follow their data protection and AI policies. Automation gaps also remain significant, with 27% of organisations reporting no plans to automate core compliance processes. These are the conditions that lead to missed obligations, delayed responses, and enforcement action.
The playbook focuses on practical shifts compliance leaders can make now. It explores how to move beyond “good enough” compliance, close automation gaps, break down internal silos, and transition from annual, audit-driven activity to continuous compliance. It also reframes compliance as a source of organisational resilience and competitive advantage rather than a pure cost centre.
For compliance leaders navigating regulatory change and volatility, this guide provides a structured framework, grounded in real data, to help prioritise investment, modernise compliance operations, and support the business at the speed it now moves.
Download the playbook to see what your peers are experiencing and how leading organisations are adapting their compliance strategies for the year ahead.
