With the growth in outsourcing at Banks, Insurance companies and Financial Services firms, there is an increase in regulatory scrutiny by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA), Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) and other regulators.
Enterprises have realized that the existing IT systems or GRC tools are inadequate to provide the detailed third-party contract compliance and performance management that is expected to satisfy regulatory oversight.
VMO and the TPRM groups have a lot going on and are typically small groups with limited bandwidth; a key challenge is to empower these groups with a robust platform without needing a lot of their time.