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25 October 2026 Financial Services Intelligence Watch

The human cost of compliance: Is one of the most important professions becoming one of the most stressful?

By Compli-Serve

International surveys reveal alarming levels of stress, burnout and increasing workloads among compliance professionals. As South African financial services regulation becomes more demanding, Compli-Serve examines whether enough attention is being paid to the wellbeing of the people responsible for keeping businesses compliant.

Compliance officers are expected to be ...

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Human oversight of AI: When 'human in the loop' is not enough

By Compli-Serve

One of the more practical themes in the FCA’s recent work on AI in financial services is its treatment of human oversight. Many firms appear comfortable saying that an AI-enabled process remains safe because a person still reviews the output before it is used. The FCA’s examples ...

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Working Smart

By Lee Rossini

Systems thinking is a management approach that examines how different parts of a business interact to influence overall performance. Rather than treating problems as isolated events, it considers the relationships, processes, feedback loops and underlying structures that produce particular outcomes. It recognises that decisions made in one area can have unintended consequences elsewhere. For example, in financial services, reducing the time allocated to client verification may improve onboarding efficiency but increase compliance risk, regulatory breaches and future remediation costs. Systems thinking encourages managers to evaluate these interconnected effects before making decisions, supporting a more holistic understanding of business performance.

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