Compliance - Regulatory / General

Commencement of the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013

POPIA is the new South African data protection legislation. The proclamation means that all the substantive requirements in POPIA in relation to data protection will be applicable from 1 July. These include, amongst other things, the conditions for the lawful processing of personal information and requirements for:

POPI commencement date announced – here's what you need to know

Ethics are the gold standard in today’s and tomorrow’s trust economy

How the cost of compliance is changing

It’s always interesting to discover how others feel. The 2020 Thomson Reuters’ Cost of Compliance survey, launched in mid-May, shares the views of compliance officers (COs) and boardroom members from around the world (some 750 risk and compliance practitioners from institutions like banks, insurers, wealth and asset managers, broker-dealers and payment service providers).