DPDP Act Implementation: Key Compliance Deadlines Through May 2027

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 and DPDP Rules, 2025 are being implemented in phases, with the main substantive compliance obligations scheduled to take effect on May 13, 2027, according to the implementation timeline published by DPDPA.com. The Read More …

Supreme Court Pushes for Stronger Safeguards for Minors on Social Media

The Supreme Court of India has asked the Centre to consider a statutory framework that would prevent or regulate minors under 18 from independently creating social-media accounts, bringing children’s online safety, age verification and personal-data protection into sharper focus. The Read More …

AI Agent Safety Needs Multiple Layers of Control

AI agents are creating a new dimension of technology risk because, unlike conventional software or standalone large language models, they can be connected to tools that allow them to read information, modify records, send communications or execute actions. A recent Read More …

Anthropic Warns of Existential AI Risks in IPO Filing

AI company Anthropic has warned potential investors that increasingly advanced artificial intelligence systems could create “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”, according to its IPO prospectus reviewed by Reuters. The company said more capable models could potentially exhibit unexpected self-preserving Read More …

ESMA Sets 2027 Priorities for EU Capital Markets

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has outlined its 2027 priorities around making EU capital markets stronger, simpler and more integrated. The agenda focuses on strengthening supervisory convergence, improving the functioning of capital markets and reducing unnecessary regulatory complexity Read More …

AI Strengthens Disaster Management from Forecasting to Rescue

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used across disaster preparedness, early warning, response, rescue and recovery, with recent floods in Nepal providing examples of how AI-enabled tools can support emergency operations. During the disaster, an AI-powered web portal matched crowdsourced information Read More …

Frontier AI Creates New Cyber Risk for Europe

The emergence of frontier AI models in April 2026 has changed the cyber-risk landscape, according to a new CEPR VoxEU analysis by Eric Törnqvist and Jerzy Kopiński. The authors argue that advanced AI systems can autonomously execute cyber operations and Read More …

Gartner Identifies 12 Audit Hot Spots for 2027

Gartner has identified 12 key risk areas that Chief Audit Executives (CAEs) should consider when developing their 2027 audit plans. The research groups the risks under three broad themes: pressure to realise AI value, strains on IT governance and oversight, Read More …

AI Governance Burden Grows as Enterprise Use Expands

Enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence is increasing the workload associated with AI risk and governance, with a OneTrust survey finding that four in five senior business decision-makers, including Chief Information Officers, Chief Information Security Officers and Chief Data Officers, are Read More …

Risk Management Must Move Into the Payment Flow

The rapid growth of real-time payments, open banking, embedded finance, artificial intelligence and cloud computing is forcing financial institutions to rethink how risk is managed. Traditional batch-processing systems gave banks time to conduct fraud and compliance checks before settlement, but Read More …