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The 2026 Compliance Operating Model for Banks

August 15, 2026 Christine Thomas

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...

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What is the Difference Between Ask Kaia vs. Copilot?

August 14, 2026 Sarah Hamilton

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...

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Assessing Third Party Due Diligence Software

August 14, 2026 Sarah Hamilton

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...

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Understanding FFIEC Third Party Risk Management

August 13, 2026 Christine Thomas

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council is a coordinating body, and it examines no bank directly. What it does produce is examiner handbooks that the OCC, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the NCUA ...

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How Compliance Teams Use Generative AI to Draft Policies

August 11, 2026 Sarah Hamilton

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...

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OCC Third Party Risk Management: A Guide for Banks

August 10, 2026 Christine Thomas

In June 2023, the way the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency evaluates vendor relationships changed. The OCC third-party risk management expectation set that many banks had followed for a decade was rescinde...

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