From Vision to Execution: What’s Next for Risk, Resilience & Regulation
By: Chad Robbins, SVP Platform Strategy Entering 2026, enterprises find themselves at a crossroads where strategic vision meets the true test: execution. The past year has unveiled both opportunities and challenges, from the acceleration of AI regulation to emerging geopolitical stressors and sustainability mandates. Firms must move beyond aspirations and build robust systems that operationalize […]
Eliminating Complexity: How CIOs and Chief Risk Officers Can Remove an Entire Cost Tier from the Operating Model
By Joleen Engela, Customer Success Manager, EMEA, and Tejas Katwala, Co-Founder, CLDigital CIOs and Chief Risk Officers are carrying a structural cost burden that rarely shows up on a budget line but influences everything in risk, resilience, compliance, and technology operations. It is the architectural scaffolding beneath these programs: the integrations, data transformation pipelines, reporting […]
Five Compliance Trends to Watch in 2026
Forward-Looking Insights on GRC Evolution By: Taryn Thomas, Senior Manager of Marketing & Growth As get closer to 2026, the landscape of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) is experiencing a swift momentum shift shaped by booming RegTech investments, AI innovation, evolving regulations, and heightened stakeholder expectations. The compliance function is morphing from gatekeeper to strategic […]
From Paper to Proof: Rethinking Cyber Contingency in the Age of Digital Fragility
By Tejas Katwala, CEO & Co-Founder, CLDigital When the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) advised organizations to “go back to pen and paper” for cyber-attack contingency planning, the headline felt almost anachronistic. In an era of AI copilots and digital twins, the government’s top cyber authority was reminding executives to print their plans. Yet […]
When Communication Fails in a Crisis & Why Testing Matters
In times of crisis, communication isn’t just important, it’s everything. Many organizations discover too late that their communication systems fail at the moment they are needed most. Outdated contact lists, scattered communication channels, or lack of testing can cause alert and coordination failures. This can lead to bigger crises like loss of trust and increase […]
Top Benefits of Implementing a Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Platform
Quick Introduction For many organizations, governance, risk, and compliance are still managed through spreadsheets, shared drives, and point tools owned by different teams. That patchwork works, until it doesn’t. Fragmentation slows audits, hides emerging risks, and makes executive reporting a manual scramble. A modern GRC platform flips that script by centralizing controls, automating evidence, […]
Beyond the Checklist: Rethinking Test & Exercise Strategies for Real-World Resilience
Business continuity testing is often treated as a routine requirement—a series of departmental checkboxes that live in folders or spreadsheets. But as risk landscapes grow more complex and interconnected, that fragmented approach simply doesn’t cut it. Resilience demands more. That’s why CLDigital has introduced a new way to manage, run, and report on tests and […]
The Shift That Matters: From Strategy to Execution in the Age of Perpetual Regulation
It was a Tuesday morning in London. The kind of morning where the sky presses down like a deadline. In a glass-paneled room at the Investment Association Resilience Forum, tea cups trembled slightly in saucers as executives from banks, insurers, asset managers, and regulators leaned in—some from interest, some from obligation. There were polite nods, […]
Tips for the Evolving Challenge of Compliance and Audit Management in Financial Services
Financial services organizations operate in one of the most highly regulated industries, facing an ever-growing list of compliance requirements from agencies or regulations like FFIEC, OCC, and DORA, alongside best practices from NIST and a patchwork of international regulations. The complexity of compliance has only intensified with the rise of cyber threats, making audit management […]
IA Webinar DORA & Operational Resilience Takeaways
By Tejas Katwala, Co-Founder, CLDigital Following the recent Investment Association (IA) webinar, “From Regulation to Reinvention,” the momentum around DORA and UK Operational Resilience has clearly shifted from planning to execution. Our audience—compliance leaders, resilience professionals, and regulators—posed sharp, practical questions, signaling a shared shift toward operationalizing Day 2 resilience. Here are some of the most […]