2026 CCO & Compliance Leader Insights Report

Compliance leaders balance competing priorities every day – proving oversight, maintaining documentation, and handling responsibilities that rarely fit neatly into a checklist. It’s a lot to manage – and it’s natural to wonder how peers are approaching the same challenges. 

That’s why we surveyed nearly 600 compliance professionals across the U.S. and U.K. – to deliver fresh insight into how today’s compliance programs operate, and the leaders driving them. 

Highlights from the report include: 

• Data from the profession: Compliance team structures, salaries, professional designations, and more 

• Manual processes & automation: What compliance leaders are still doing manually, what they’d like to automate, and the barriers to that automation 

• Risk assessments & exam prep: The frequency of risk assessments, key pain points during reviews, and how firms prepare for exams 

• AI in compliance: Adoption rates, prominent use cases, and noteworthy governance gaps 

• Resources & culture: How compliance leaders feel about executive buy-in, resource access, and firm culture