The financial compliance world always seems to be perpetually speeding up. But with the last three years precipitating a digital transformation push like the world has never seen, the perpetually influx compliance industry has become even more hectic than usual. Financial businesses today simply do not function the way that they used to. And while the compliance field has done an admirable job of making incremental shifts to plug the gaps that inevitably open up as change comes to pass, the field has reached a watershed moment in its approach to modernization, especially when it comes to risk. The modern business world consists of a vast network of priorities and emerging challenges that simply can not be managed using traditional research methods and legwork alone.