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CUBE
A global survey of more than 2,000 senior compliance and risk officers from 1,300 financial institutions around the world finds that almost two-thirds (60 per cent) of them predict that the cost of regulatory change management will rise in the next 12 months.

The findings, from CUBE, which provides automated regulatory intelligence  and regulatory change management, come in its Cost of Compliance Report 2025.

Some 98 per cent of respondents said they have “some degree” of automation in their regulatory change management process; 21 per cent said their regulatory change management process was “somewhat and/or highly ineffective.”

At a time when compliance rules, relating to anti-money laundering for example, continue to evolve to stop illicit financial flows, firms are increasingly having to consider technology to help square the circle of rising costs to improve the client experience and drive revenues. 

In other findings, the report said 16 per cent of respondents report potential regulatory change directly to their executive teams or board, which has traditionally been seen as an area of weakness in firms’ approach to compliance and risk.

The report “reveals a surge in AI regulation, with 157 new laws and rules in a single year,” Ben Richmond, founder and CEO of CUBE, said. “Add to that trade tensions, tariff shifts and conflicting legislation, and it’s clear compliance teams are under unprecedented pressure.”

Concerningly, the report said that it still takes organizations, on average, more than a year to fully implement a regulatory change.

Artificial intelligence
AI itself will remain under heightened scrutiny from regulators. Between June 2024 and May 2025, CUBE captured and published 157 financial services regulatory insights relating to new laws, rules and regulations relevant to the use of AI – almost double the volume from the previous year. This increase reflects ongoing uncertainty on how best to regulate the use of AI to ensure financial services institutions remain compliant when adopting this transformative technology, it said. 

CUBE has operations across Europe, North America, Canada, Asia, and Australia.

In March 2024, CUBE announced the acquisition of US-based Reg-Room; it also announced the acquisitions of Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence and Oden products and businesses in May 2024. This was followed by the purchases of Acin and Kodex AI in 2025, adding non-financial risk and AI agent capabilities to RegPlatform™.