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Since GDPR rolled out in 2018, enforcement has intensified. In 2023 alone, EU regulators levied roughly €2.1 billion in fines for non-compliance. That includes a jaw-dropping €1.2 billion strike against Meta for unlawful data transfers between the EU and the U.S., marking it the most significant GDPR penalty. Let’s be real. Data is serious business, and building software without GDPR compliance is like launching a bank without a vault.

Managing data across hybrid systems while meeting regulatory requirements is a growing challenge for businesses. Here's what you need to know.

With the EU AI Act now in force, compliance is no longer about aspirational ethics or last-minute checklists, it’s about operationalizing quality assurance at every stage of your AI lifecycle.

South Africa’s Joint Standard on Cybersecurity & Cyber Resilience (JS2) is reshaping the regulatory landscape. Financial institutions must now rethink how they manage sensitive data. For data compliance leaders, this marks a critical shift where failing to adapt could bring serious consequences. This blog will examine what JS2 means for your organization’s data compliance efforts. Then, discover how Perforce solutions can help you in building a resilient data compliance program.

This article originally appeared on Software Testing News. We’re sharing it here for our audience who may have missed it. An overlooked API can expose customer data, trigger multi-million-dollar fines, and sink a FinTech product launch. And now, the FinTech industry is at a crossroads, driven by innovation yet bounded by intensifying regulatory demands.

CMS-0057-F is a set of regulations introduced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It was created to address the urgent need for better interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem in the U.S. For a deeper understanding of this regulation, we encourage you to read Enhancing Interoperability and Streamlining Prior Authorization: A Look into CMS-0057-F.

If you’re a big enterprise doing business in California, then California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance is non-negotiable. But, while the CCPA is a stringent regulation, complying with it doesn’t have to slow your organization down or limit your ability to innovate. In this blog, we will go over the essentials of CCPA, including who must comply and the regulation’s key provisions.

Another day, another API. Fueled by AI-assisted coding and agile workflows, the speed of innovation has never been higher. But for the compliance team? It’s panic mode. Every new API must follow a minefield of internal rules: security protocols, naming conventions, reuse policies, documentation standards. And while the dev team is flying forward, compliance is stuck doing manual reviews, chasing specs, and untangling inconsistencies often after the code is already written.