Sarah Hamilton

Basic compliance tools store policies, hold a calendar of due dates, and keep a spreadsheet of controls. As the institution grows, the question becomes whether it has banking compliance management software capable ...

Third party risk management solutions are unusually hard to compare because the category has no fixed boundary. One product automates assessments, while another monitors external threat signals and a third tracks c...

Predicting examiner focus has less to do with reading a regulator's mind than with reading your own data before the examiner does. Two internal data sets do most of the work. The first is query data and the se...

Most compliance teams do not choose legacy GRC systems, but rather, inherit them. Each long ago implemented element carries a program until an examiner asks a question the tooling cannot answer. This article mak...

Ask Kaia vs Copilot is a comparison more compliance teams are running in 2026, usually because they already have Microsoft Copilot through their Microsoft 365 licensing and want to know whether a compliance-specifi...

Third-party due diligence software exists to close the gaps created by manual or siloed processes. It centralizes the collection, assessment, and ongoing monitoring of information about the vendors and service prov...

Compliance teams that use generative AI to draft policies are trying to solve a specific, familiar problem, such as policies drifting out of alignment with the rules they implement. Every regulatory change can touc...

Financial firms absorb roughly one in five of all reported cyber incidents, according to the International Monetary Fund's April 2024 Global Financial Stability Report. That figure explains why the most useful...

A mid-sized credit union can easily depend on a core banking processor, a cloud host, a digital-banking vendor, a card network, a collections agency, and several hundred smaller suppliers. Each one performs work th...

When a payment processor mishandles customer data or a loan servicer misapplies a consumer protection rule, the bank is left responsible. Third party vendor compliance is how a financial institution confirms, docum...