The Cost of Compliance Report
Length: 16 pages | Format: PDF
You only have to look at the eye-watering fines issued by the FCA to see how damaging non-compliance could be to your business. It’s not just the direct costs that come from financial penalties either. There’s also the time spent dealing with the aftermath of the breach, as well as the erosion of customer, investor and employee confidence that may not be immediately obvious but that, nonetheless, impacts the firm’s reputation and bottom line.
Training is one of the most powerful ways to empower people to make the right decision and avoid these kinds of fines – but our report suggests that many budgets are stagnating or even shrinking. L&D and compliance teams may be under pressure to justify the value of training, both the upfront costs and the time it takes out of people’s days.
Our latest report, The Cost of Compliance (and Missed Opportunity), frames compliance training, not as a cost to the business, but an opportunity. As well as protecting firms from fines and bad press, there are a wide range of indirect benefits too – everything from employee engagement to innovation. We’ll look at how you can deliver training efficiently and effectively, even as budgets shrink, to unlock the compliance advantage.
Highlights from the report
The BIG compliance risks facing your business today
Our research suggests most firms link compliance training to avoiding fines – not competitive advantage
How to deliver efficient and targeted training
Report Guest Contributors

Ed Chedzoy
Head of Mandatory Learning & People Capability at Standard Chartered
Ed explains how training can spark a ‘lightbulb moment’ among employees, empowering them to make better decisions.

Scott Morris
StoneTurn Senior Advisor | Skillcast Advisory Board Member
Scott warns about the low-level insidious behaviours within a workplace that can increase risk.

David Kenmir
Skillcast Advisory Board Chair | PwC INED FSA & Risk and Regulatory Partner
David adds his experience as Chair of Skillcast’s Advisory Board and INED (formerly Managing Director at the FSA and Risk, and Regulatory Partner at PwC). He looks at how firms can build a healthy level of scepticism within their teams.


How can compliance training help?
Our survey found that cybersecurity training is patchy among many organisations, despite the well-known risks. But an organisation’s commitment to delivering ongoing and engaging training more often than not reflects its wider culture. Those who empower employees to understand the threat, make good decisions, and flag up any concerns stand a better chance of protecting their systems and data, compared to those who treat training as a tick-box exercise or fail to deliver it regularly (or at all).
So, as you’ll see in our report, training enables firms to embed good practices in their teams and create a healthy culture of compliance, not complacency.