What Happens After the Deadline? Post-Compliance Strategy for DORA & Beyond
By Ian Wilson, SVP – GRC Business Development, UK & EuropeIan leads CLDigital’s UK & Europe GRC sales and business development activities, including new client onboarding and partner engagement. Executive Summary The January 2025 DORA compliance deadline marked a major milestone for financial institutions across the European Union, but it was never intended to be […]
The CLDigital Model in Action: How Our Platform Supports Enterprise-Wide Execution
The CLDigital Model in Action: How Our Platform Supports Enterprise-Wide Execution By Casey Friese, CISOCasey leads CLDigital’s security, data protection, and infrastructure strategy and delivery. Executive Summary Enterprise execution is increasingly challenged by fragmented systems, siloed data, and manual processes that slow decision-making and obscure risk. The CLDigital model addresses this by unifying data, workflows, […]
Modernizing Risk Assessments: From Spreadsheets to Smart Workflows
By David Mack, SVP Business Development, AmericasDavid leads CLDigital’s Americas initiatives across business development, marketing, and account management. Executive Summary Modern risk management is undergoing a structural shift. Static, spreadsheet-driven assessments can no longer meet the demands of evolving regulatory frameworks such as DORA or NIST, nor can they keep pace with dynamic risk environments. […]
Operational Resilience Beyond Compliance
By Tejas Katwala Operational resilience is no longer a niche control discipline sitting quietly beside compliance, cyber, and business continuity. It is becoming a defining measure of whether an organisation can continue delivering critical services, protect customers from harm, and sustain trust when disruption occurs. In financial services especially, resilience is no longer judged by whether […]
Why Real-Time Compliance Is the Only Compliance That Matters
By Chad Robbins, Chief Customer Officer, CLDigital Why “Check-the-Box” Compliance Can’t Keep Up Most organizations still run compliance as a series of snapshots: On paper, that model looks tidy. In practice, it’s completely out of sync with how modern risk works. Infrastructure is elastic, vendors change constantly, threats evolve hourly, and regulators are now asking […]
Checklist Overload: A Smarter Approach to Exercises, DR Tests & Scenario Simulations
By Natalie Sullo, Business Implementation Analyst, CLDigital When it comes to business continuity and resilience, most organizations don’t struggle with having checklists. They struggle with only having checklists. Disaster recovery (DR) tests, tabletop exercises, and scenario simulations too often become tick-the-box activities: “Did we run a test this year? Did we document it? Did we […]
Five Compliance Challenges That Still Trip Up the Best-Run Programs
By Paul Gant, Head of Operations, EMEA Even high-performing compliance teams feel the squeeze right now. Rules keep shifting across jurisdictions, third-party ecosystems grow more complex, and boards want proof not promises that controls work under stress. After spending the past year working with mature programs across financial services, healthcare, and critical infrastructure, I see […]
AI That Works Where You Do: Real World Use Cases in GRC
By Ian Wilson, SVP, GRC Business Development, EMEA There is a gap between AI demos and day to day governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) work. Leaders do not need another clever prototype. They need AI that fits into existing controls, policies, audits, vendor reviews, and incident workflows. The payoff is significant: less manual effort, faster […]
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 […]