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 […]
Proven Security, Year After Year: Our SOC 2 Type II Commitment
By Casey Friese, Chief Information Security Officer, CLDigital Security That’s Proven — Year After Year At CLDigital, security has never been a marketing tactic—it’s been core to how we operate from day one. While others may just be celebrating their first SOC 2 Type II audit, we’ve quietly maintained our compliance for three consecutive years. […]
Resilience Without the Chaos: Delivering DORA, Risk, Cyber, and ESG with Confidence
By Tejas Katwala, Co-founder, CLDigital Published for: The Financial Services Risk & Compliance Conference | April 2025 Resilience used to be something you measured after an incident. Now, it’s the only strategy that matters before one. From DORA and operational resilience mandates to ESG scrutiny and deepfakedriven fraud, risk leaders are under more pressure than […]
The DORA Countdown: Is Your Compliance Strategy Ready?
By Ian Wilson, SVP of GRC Business Development, EMEA April 30, 2025, looms large on the calendar for financial institutions across Europe. This is not just another regulatory deadline for compliance officers, chief risk officers, CIOs, CISOs, and risk management professionals—it’s a defining moment. The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is pushing organizations to reassess how they […]
UK Operational Resilience: Are You Ready for 31 March 2025?
On a gray morning in London, as financial executives sip their first coffee of the day, an undercurrent of urgency hums through the City. The FCA’s operational resilience deadline looms, and firms are awakening to the reality that compliance is not just a regulatory hoop to jump through—it’s a litmus test for survival in an […]
Navigating the Future: Emerging Trends in Governance, Risk, and Compliance for 2025
Overcoming Key Challenges in Governance, Risk, and Compliance As organizations grapple with an increasingly complex risk landscape, governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) practices must evolve to meet new and persistent challenges. In 2025, global enterprises face mounting pressures from regulatory divergence, cybersecurity threats, operational disruptions, and shifting stakeholder expectations, particularly in environmental, social, and governance […]
PRA 2025 Priorities: How CLDigital Empowers Firms to Strengthen Governance, Risk, and Resilience
The Prudential Regulation Authority’s (PRA) 2025 priorities outline clear expectations for international banks and investment firms operating in the UK, emphasizing governance, risk management, financial resilience, data integrity, and operational resilience. These priorities are not just regulatory mandates—they represent the fundamental business challenges financial firms must address in an era of increasing economic uncertainty, technological […]