By Andrei Lavygin
Artificial intelligence is increasingly embedded in business operations, influencing decisions related to hiring, customer interactions, financial assessments, and risk management. As adoption expands, the risks associated with AI are no longer confined to system performance. They now fall within the domain of legal, regulatory, and ethical compliance.
By Dharmesh Acharya
Most compliance teams are still running annual audits and calling it governance. But your security controls do not wait for audit season to fail. The average cost of a data breach in 2025 is USD 4.44 million globally. A big part of that cost comes down to timing—organizations are still catching control failures at the time of audit, not before.
By Julia Blokhina
By the time a fraud investigator walks into an organization, the money is usually gone. Wire transfers move within hours. Funds are routed through two or three intermediary accounts before the victim has finished their first call with the bank. What the investigator spends most of their time on is not chasing the funds. It is reconstructing how the organization arrived at the moment it approved the transfer.
That reconstruction almost always reveals the same things.
By Vincent Gaudel, financial crime compliance expert at LexisNexis Risk Solutions
When Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, it triggered what many described as a “sanctions storm.” Regulators rapidly expanded sanctions lists, designating thousands of individuals and entities within weeks. Compliance teams faced an immediate challenge: keep pace or risk enforcement action, reputational damage, and operational disruption.
By T. Markus Funk and Brent Wible
T. Markus Funk (mfunk@whitecase.com) is a Band 1 White & Case Partner, former federal prosecutor, and conflict-deployed State Department Section Chief.
Brent Wible (brent.wible@whitecase.com) is a Partner at White & Case and a seasoned former federal prosecutor with extensive experience handling sensitive investigations, including ones that implicate national security concerns.