Christine Thomas

When risk and compliance technology is discussed, it is often in the context of how much improvement the technology can bring about in an organization’s current risk and compliance processes. What often gets lost in this...

Bankers keep a close watch on the metrics they believe can provide them important information about the economy. However, the pandemic, the shutdowns, and then the slow reopening of the economy have resulted in changes in the...

Banks are very resilient institutions. Banks form the backbone of the local and the national economy – they provide the services and often the credit required to ensure that economies keep growing. What is often missed by ...

Change is the only constant we can depend on, and this adage couldn’t be truer for technology. Technology keeps evolving and opening up new possibilities. Bank risk technology is evolving at a rapid pace, making new feat...

A lot of smaller banks, credit unions and financial services organizations are still wondering whether this is the right time to invest in risk technology. However, the question that small banks need to ask themselves is not...

The sudden shift to working from home has challenged management throughout many industries, including banking and financial services. A primary concern is that employees used to collaborating face-to-face throughout the wo...

When it comes to compliance, there is no such thing as too many precautionary measures. Even the smallest compliance failures can turn into huge headaches for the organization; punitive damages and reputational loss are only the begin...

Our financial industry has been plagued with financial crimes like phishing, fraud, critical data leakage, security lapses and anti-money laundering experiences. Cyber security has become an extremely important challenge for the banks...

As the bank’s chief compliance officer, if you are worried about CTRs, SARs, the FCPA form to be signed by the CFO, the FATCA report that has to be submitted, the new employees that need to be on boarded from a compliance perspectiv...

What ??? In these days of increased scrutiny, skyrocketing fines and changing regulations, you advise me to …… Precisely – the less you have to think about regulations and compliance, the more productive you are.  What you n...