Can compliance be turned into a competitive advantage, rather than a driver of costs? Are financial institutions merely passive recipients of government intervention or is it possible for smart corporates to play a role in shaping regulation and compliance, nationally and internationally?

This book addresses these challenges and explores all these opportunities. It provides detailed guidance for those who are responsible for designing and applying compliance regimes in companies. That guidance will be provided in context: legal, social and economic. Understanding the context is essential to anyone wishing to extract value from compliance, possibly turning a cost center into a competitive advantage.
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This book discusses the impact of the sub-prime crisis, what may ensue, what should ensue and how the industry can extract value from an apparent disaster. It deals with the impact of technologies, both hard (e.g. information and communication technologies) and soft (new ways of working, e.g. teleworking) and the impact caused by the waves of change as a result of the climate change juggernaut, including threats (e.g.reaction against globalization) and opportunities (e.g. cost reductions from adoption of greener technologies, buildings and ways of working).

It considers and discusses the impact of demographic change. In the next 10-20 years the influence of the boomers will wane and new generations will assume more influential roles in the workplace and in the marketplace, reshaping both. Finally the author returns to the scope defined in the early chapters and offers practical advice to the industry as a whole (and implicitly to governments) on how to deal with these global trends....