Compliance Insider is designed exclusively to help compliance professionals anticipate and fully understand the demands of the legal and compliance department.

In this edition, you will see a focus on compliance training: what works and what doesn’t. It also discusses the significant development in compliance and compliance technology.

To be a great compliance officer (which is a phrase that we use often in this magazine) you need to be substantially ahead of the curve. Analytics and transaction monitoring can allow you to do that.

The world of compliance is constantly evolving, and this has especially been the case over the last few months. Companies need to choose their risk-management tools wisely and adopt a flexible plan.

Our Spotlight section in this edition focuses on know-your-customer (KYC) compliance. KYC has been around for 20 to 30 years in the financial-services space.

We think that this is essential reading for every CCO so that they can think about how to improve. Although CCOs are focused on compliance, they are also part of a wider leadership team.

Our only goal is to support members of the compliance community by providing the very best direction, guidance and intelligence for their businesses.

We create a magazine that hopefully adds value to your role as a chief compliance officer. The feedback remains strong and positive, and we are even more focused to continue producing.

We will be increasing our resources in this group and releasing more and more related businesses to supplement the significant amount of content that we have available to support you and your business

This edition looks at a range of topics, with a focus on parts of Europe. Of course, it also includes our standard offerings, such as Things to Think About® and the results of our survey,

This edition of Compliance Insider®, and its digital editions, are there to provide you advice, direction and counsel. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoy putting them together.

This edition comes at a time when the compliance industry is changing, and there is no doubt that it is changing for the better. Regulators are getting smarter.

Compliance is about taking more risks. It is about building better, simpler processes, not more complex ones; about making it easier and faster to do business, not harder and slower.

This edition of Compliance Insider® considers a range of topics, always giving you real-life answers to real-life problems. We will always end with a conclusion, a take-away, and a call to action.

We look at why compliance officers fail, and how they can improve their roles as leaders and be considered equals in their leadership teams.

Our key is to get information to you fast, but also to provide commentary and direction that you need to think about. It’s not just news – it’s intelligence.

In this edition we will continue to report on key compliance areas where we are seeing the most change, and will also cover some more country background.

In this issue we continue to focus on providing solutions to common challenges global companies face while developing their compliance frameworks.

Our Things to Think About™ series looks at a third party due diligence programme. We offer guidance in implementing the programme, from the budget stage to reporting to back to stakeholders.

From time to time in Compliance Insider® we will focus on specific issues, where we look at a particular topic in detail; however, our overall focus will never change.