Compliance: Five tips for speeding up the process

'Compliance is a notoriously time-consuming responsibility'

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Harriet Christie shares her expertise on compliance issues and gives advisers some pointers on speeding up the notoriously time-consuming process...

Compliance is a notoriously time-consuming responsibility, a discipline that relies on precision and meticulous oversight. This reputation has been around for some time, even when regulatory compliance was mainly concerned with email and printed materials as opposed to today's steady torrent of digital corporate output. We have gradually seen compliance become more of an industry unto itself as opposed to another ‘hat' for somebody to wear in an organisation - something which has been particularly prevalent in smaller businesses. In recent years, the ‘WhatsApp fines' alone have total...

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