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 Outdated contact lists, scattered communication channels, or lack of testing can cause alert and coordination failures.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 […]
From Regulation to Reinvention: DORA, FCA Day 2, and the Future of Operational Resilience
By Tejas Katwala, Co-founder, CLDigital As of March 31, 2025, the transition period for PS21/3 has ended, ushering in a new chapter for operational resilience in the UK. Simultaneously, the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has moved from anticipation to enforcement, redefining expectations for ICT risk, third-party oversight, and incident reporting. Yet, even as […]
Beyond Compliance: Operationalizing Confidence with Agentic AI
By Tejas Katwala, CEO, CLDigital Most enterprise risk, compliance, and resilience programs were built to prove readiness—not feel ready. They’re structured around static frameworks, periodic assessments, and after-the-fact reporting. But in a world defined by continuous disruption, that model is no longer enough. Enter Agentic AI—a new class of intelligent systems built not just to analyze and inform, […]
From Compliance to Confidence: Highlights from the 2025 FS Risk & Compliance Conference
By Ian Wilson, Senior Vice President of GRC Business Development EMEA at CLDigital Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Financial Services Risk & Compliance Conference in London last week – what a fabulous event! The one-day industry-led conference and networking exhibition was extremely well attended, with over 140 delegates. The targeted and tailored agenda […]