Arin Ray | Source | Senior Analyst at Celent

Sanctions are increasingly becoming tools for conducting foreign policy. Rapidly changing lists of sanctioned entities make it challenging for banks and corporate treasuries to ensure they are not engaging with sanctioned entities or their associates.

The promised land of digitized capital markets infrastructure does not come without new risks - cyber risk is already a big concern, while money laundering, fraud, and market abuse risks are growing. It will take industry wide efforts to mitigate the risks.