In recent years many in the compliance industry have observed a shift in regulation from prescriptive to performance and outcome-based designs. What we are seeing is only the beginning of a trickle down effect emerging from regulatory reform over the last few decades across regulatory jurisdictions and across the world.
During this time an increasing number of regulatory bodies have started to modernized the function of regulation, its processes and practices, and how regulation itself is regulated (meta-regulation). Most of this transformation has centered around the adoption of risk-based: strategies, operations, and tactics.
There are many reasons for why this is happening. However, what is perhaps more important is that it is happening bringing with it continued changes for those who operate under regulation and to the role of compliance.
