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Three unsettled trends that will impact regulated industries in 2025

The regulatory landscape fractured in 2024, as geopolitical upheaval dramatically shifted regulatory priorities around the globe. Expect even more to change in 2025, change that will be driven by three major trends.

Trend one: geopolitical instability creates regulatory uncertainty

As Russia’s war against Ukraine neared the three-year mark in 2024, the EU in December adopted a new sanctions package. In the Middle East, rebels toppled the Bashar Al-Assad regime after more than a  decade of civil war; the Israel-Palestine escalated, and Iran faced mounting challenges both internationally and domestically.

Adding fuel to the global fire, South Korea’s parliament impeached two presidents in 2024, Somali pirates continued to attack global shipping lanes, and in the U.S., the coming second Trump Administration has already devolved into infighting even before the inauguration.

In the coming year, each of these regulatory stressors will likely remain volatile, meaning legal and regulatory strategies will need to be agile and adaptable. Change and uncertainty are the rules of the regulatory game.

Trend two: AI’s dark side threatens to overshadow its advances

AI has been a boon to several technology sectors, including regulatory change management. When AI is deployed and trained properly, it benefits organizations by eliminating repetitive, labor-intensive, error-prone tasks, freeing highly skilled experts to pursue more valuable projects.

But AI also has a dark side. Shady “AI” startups, AI-powered crypto scams, and dirty coal-fired power plants being brought back online to support AI all make the average person’s life worse, be it through overhyped vaporware, fake social media profiles spewing disinformation, or polluted air. Other dark AI trends include deep fakes, negative mental health impacts, and the so-so trustworthiness of autonomous weapons systems.

For businesses in regulated industries, it will be important to grapple with AI’s negative downstream effects in 2025. Each of these troubling trends points to areas where lawmakers and regulators will face mounting public pressure to intervene.

Ensuring that AI remains primarily an engine of progress will be a major challenge for organizations across the economy. Businesses that figure out how to harness the power of AI, while protecting against the emerging risks associated with its misuse, will earn significant advantages in the market.  

Trend three: economic uncertainty fuels global turmoil

Throughout 2024, economists argued over how best to tame inflation, whether the persistence of inflation post-COVID was actually price gouging, and what to do about inflation’s negative impact on the job market.

Other economic stressors that loom in 2025 include the incoming Trump Administration’s threats to slap tariffs on a variety of imports, the potential for massive public sector layoffs in the U.S., cascading layoffs throughout the EU, and the unpredictable economic drag from climate change.

For compliance teams navigating regulatory change management in this chaotic environment, predictability within your team is the only way to effectively confront unpredictability outside of your organization.

Navigating the choppy waters of 2025: core stability will be the key

Compliance teams face a mountain of challenges in 2025, but organizations that commit to modern compliance programs will have a distinct advantage. Modern tools such as AI-powered change management software, repeatable and predictable AI-augmented compliance processes and workflows, and an overall compliance strategy that focuses on proactively anticipating change (based on signals from regulators, lawmakers, and enforcement patterns), rather than reacting after the fact, will all be necessary to stay afloat during a coming tsunami of uncertainty.

Navigating the evolving regulatory landscape in 2025 will require the right tools to track changes, the right information at the right time to properly assess risks, and the proper processes in place to prove compliance when auditors knock on your door.

At Compliance AI, we provide a comprehensive solution to streamline your compliance processes to meet the challenges of 2025 and beyond:

•   Real-Time regulatory updates

•   Automation powered by AI and ML    

•   Automated risk assessments   

•   Collaboration tools to help your team start 2025 with confidence and control

Schedule a demo today, and the experts at Compliance AI will show you how your organization can transform compliance to meet the demands of a chaotic 2025.

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