In a column, Antony Derbes, president of Open Lake Technology, warns of the growing gap between financial regulation and new uses of work.
In an article published today, Antony Derbes, president of Open Lake Technology, draws a clear observation: while work in the financial sector has undergone a silent but radical transformation, regulatory frameworks remain anchored in an outdated model. This dichotomy exposes financial institutions to compliance risks and critical blind spots. HAS” There are transformations that are not announced. They don’t make any noise » he writes, emphasizing that this shift has become “ too visible to be ignored ».
A model of controls become obsolete
Historically, financial regulation has been built on a paradigm of control and strict traceability: centralized, recorded communications linked to an identified physical workstation. This system operated in a world where professional interactions followed predictable circuits. However, this world no longer exists. HAS” Today, a professional conversation can begin on a smartphone, continue over instant messaging, move to a video conference, then conclude on a collaborative platform » explains Antony Derbes.
These new uses, accelerated by the health crisis, have made professional exchanges continuous, fragmented and hybrid. The paradox is total:       “ Never have exchanges been so numerous, so rapid, so strategic, and yet, they have never been so difficult to understand in their entirety HAS”. By continuing to want to regulate physical objects (landlines, workstations) rather than communication flows, current regulation is out of step with operational reality and weakens the very integrity of the interactions it claims to guarantee.
Humans, the new center of gravity for regulation
For the president of Open Lake Technology, the real shift lies in the shift in the center of gravity: it is no longer the workstation, but the individual himself. “It is now the communication paths that structure the activity, and not the technical devices that support them,” he insists. From then on, the question is no longer to control each tool separately, but to coherently follow the interactions which circulate between them.
This change in perspective involves moving from the regulation of equipment to the regulation of uses. Ignoring or marginalizing omnipresent tools like the smartphone, a point of convergence between personal and professional life, amounts to “ accept a loss of visibility and control.” The solution is therefore not to slow down these developments, but to support them.
For a unified approach and integrated compliance
The answer cannot lie in the accumulation of disparate control solutions. Antony Derbes pleads for “ a unified approach, capable of reconciling the different communication environments and exercising coherent governance, independent of the tools themselves HAS”. The goal is to transform compliance, often perceived as a constraint, into a fluid and natural dimension of daily work processes.
It is not a question of reducing regulatory requirements, but of repositioning them so that they are truly relevant to current practices. HAS” The challenge is considerable, but it also opens up an opportunity: that of fundamentally rethinking the relationship between technology, uses and regulatory framework » he concludes.
This analysis is carried out by Open Lake Technology (https://www.open-lake.com), a company which develops a software suite designed to help information systems departments meet these new needs for compliance, supervision and understanding of uses on unified communications systems.
