The Role of GRC in Financial Services: A Senior Leader Perspective

This research explores how Governance, Risk and Compliance programmes are experienced by senior leaders in financial services — what’s working, what isn’t, and where GRC is having the greatest (or least) impact on organisational performance. The specific areas covered include:
- Strategic Confidence and Decision Making
- Pursuit of strategic opportunities
- Contribution to strategic planning
- Finding of a strategic opportunity
- Speed to Market and Operational Agility
- Time to launch new initiatives
- Ease of entering new regulated markets
- Automation of governance and compliance processes
- Stakeholder Trust and Reputation
- Building trust with stakeholders
- Factor in a customer or counterparty working with you
- Impact on Credit Rating or ESG score
- Cost Efficiency and Resource Optimisation
- Reduction of duplication of effort
- Return on investment relative to operational costs
- Measurable impact on costs
- Resilience and Continuity
- Response to significant disruption (cyber etc.)
- Resilience as a competitive differentiator
- Support to a major operational disruption
- Looking ahead
- Biggest barrier to delivering more value
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