Webinar

Modernizing Compliance without Disrupting the Business: The Always-on Compliance Approach

03.13.2026 | Charmian Simmons

Webinar summary

Compliance leaders face a growing gap between regulatory expectations and the capabilities of legacy operating models. Large-scale transformation can feel risky, expensive, and disruptive. This webinar explores how moving towards an AI-native and Always-on Compliance approach enables institutions to modernize safely, introducing continuous oversight and intelligence in a controlled, pragmatic way that protects business operations.

Speakers

Charmian Simmons – Financial Crime & Compliance Expert, SymphonyAI

Marcus Vinicius Martinez – Industry Advisor, EMEA, Microsoft

Hugo Matos – Senior Manager, Financial Services, EY

Discussion breakdown

In this 45-minute session, experts discuss and share practical insights on what a realistic, low-risk modernization path looks like in practice:

  • Why legacy compliance platforms are reaching their limits
    Understand where traditional rules-first architectures create operational bottlenecks, slow investigations, and hinder regulatory responsiveness.
  • What truly differentiates AI-native compliance platforms
    Learn why incremental upgrades to legacy systems often fall short — and how AI-native platforms unlock new operational capabilities.
  • What “Always-On Compliance” means in practice
    Discover how continuous monitoring, AI-driven workflows, and real-time regulatory adaptation reshape compliance operations.

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FinCrime Frontier Report – 2025/26

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Charmian Simmons

Financial Crime & Compliance Expert and Strategy Leader

Charmian Simmons is a Financial Crime and Compliance Expert covering Financial Services at SymphonyAI. She has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector across risk management, financial crime, internal controls and IT advisory. She is a technology evangelist specialising in AI innovations and transformation. Charmian is responsible for providing practitioner expertise, thought leadership and analysing key policy, regulatory and technology drivers transforming the compliance market. Prior to joining Symphony AI, Charmian was a Fincrime Expert with BAE Systems, a Regional Director of Strategy and Performance for the Risk business at Refinitiv, the Head of Audit in North America at Lloyds Banking Group USA and a Vice President at Morgan Stanley covering Institutional Securities and Capital Markets. Charmian is CAMS, CDPSE, CRMA and CISA certified.

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