OVERVIEW

Many are wondering what the future of compliance holds in the emerging age of intelligence technology.

The direction is more visible than it might appear, and it does not require guessing.

Several progressions have been shaping compliance for years, some of them for decades. They began in different disciplines and advanced largely without reference to each other. What is happening now is that they are converging — elevating compliance in ways none of them could achieve on their own.

• Regulatory obligations have been moving from prescriptive rules toward risk-based and performance-based requirements.

• Compliance has been moving from procedural to operational, and is now beginning to move to organizational.