Welcome to the first episode of Compliance That Makes Sense. Listen as your host Yana Afanasieva discusses compliance, where it was five years ago versus where it is now. Yana shares the changes she has seen over the years and the three main pain points experienced by compliance professionals. Yana also gives her opinion on how to scale compliance as a function and prepare it for the future. This is an eye-opening discussion on all things compliance; you don’t want to miss this first of many exciting conversations to come.

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Today’s episode:

• [00:36] Welcome to the show, everybody!
• [00:58] Yana discusses compliance as a function and where it was, compared to where it is now.
• [02:44] Yana speaks about the changes happening in the last five years, with automation being one of them.
• [03:26] Two-factor authentication in Europe has become the norm.
• [04:00] Another change is how people rely more on public information, news, adverse media scanning, and social media for compliance decisions.
• [05:02] Yana believes that large institutions and their compliant and risk team feel empowered to say no more frequently.
• [06:09] Yana shares the three main pain points being experienced by compliance professions.
• [08:36] Listen as Yana explains why compliance professionals do what they do.
• [10:32] Yana shares her personal observations of companies that start and then finish the registration process.
• [12:28] Yana discusses where she sees compliance as a profession is going.
• [12:55] Yana describes the key problems in Fintech.
• [13:45] Yana shares her opinion on how to scale compliance as a function and prepare it for the future. 
• [14:35] Thanks for listening!

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