Top 10 Risk & Compliance Trends for 2026

Artificial intelligence is reshaping compliance work, supply chain ethics matter more than ever, and workplace cultures show worrisome signals of stress. NAVEX’s 2026 trends report draws on expert perspectives and 15 years of benchmarking data from over 2 million reports to identify what risk and compliance professionals need to know in the year ahead.

The report features 10 essays from leading compliance experts on the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing the profession, including:

• How AI will transform compliance team structures and the nature of compliance work itself.
• Why organizations with ethical supply chains will gain competitive advantage as regulations and expectations intensify.
• What rising workplace civility concerns and imminent threat reports reveal about cultural stress in organizations.
• How boards can move from compliance oversight to actively shaping organizational culture and ethics.