Sally Morris
Regulatory environments globally are becoming increasingly complex – 300+ million pages of regulatory documents will be published by 2020 and 600+ legislative initiatives need to be catalogued by a medium-sized, sell-side institution to have a holistic view of their rule book.
Global financial institutions must diligently monitor and implement change in three regulatory clusters: financial stability, prudent operations, and resolution. The flood of revisions averages 200 per day – three times the rate in 2011.
The Cost of Compliance 2018 Report found that 66% of firms expect the cost of senior compliance staff to increase, up from 60% in 2017. Nearly two thirds (61%) of firms expect the total compliance budget to be slightly or significantly more over the next year – another increase from last year (53%).
For banks with assets ranging from $1 billion to $10 billion, total compliance costs are averaging at 2.9% of their non-interest expenses; for banks with less than $100 million in assets, the costs averaging at 8.7% of their non-interest expenses. For some banks, it takes up to $4 billion a year to cover demands ranging from checks to prevent money laundering, to requirements to give more data to regulators for stress tests. By 2018, The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act had already cost banks $36 billion with MiFID II costing €2.5 billion.
By 2021, regulatory costs are expected to rise from 4% to 10% of revenue, driven primarily by the sheer volume of regulations – each week sees an average of 45 new regulatory-related documents issued.
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As regulatory environments globally become increasingly complex, strict enforcement of new and updated guidelines leads to a highly prohibitive cost of even the simplest misstep, not to mention misconduct.
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