How to Build a Resilience Program That Actually Scales
Moving Beyond Isolated Teams into Cross-Functional Resilience By: Ananda Rao, Head of Client Services Resilience is no longer a function confined to business continuity or disaster recovery teams—it must be an enterprise-wide capability. In today’s complex operational environments, scaling resilience requires cross-functional integration, strategic alignment, and technology-enabled coordination. This blog explores how organizations can mature […]
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 Outdated contact lists, scattered communication channels, or lack of testing can cause alert and coordination failures.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 […]
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 […]
The Rise of Agentic Workflows in Risk, Compliance, and Resilience
By Tejas Katwala, Co-Founder, CLDigital In our quest to bring AI into the heart of risk and resilience, we’ve reached a hard truth: deploying AI without structure is like hiring brilliant but untrained talent and expecting it to hold up in an audit. Potential without process is chaos. Intelligence without accountability is risk. And that […]