What’s worth your attention in July

A lighter news cycle this month, but plenty happening behind the scenes. From client trends to ongoing FAQs, here’s what’s been top of mind at Compliance Online.

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Compliance Online
July 02, 2025

FICA and AML

FATF greylist: Almost there!

At the June FATF Plenary, South Africa was recognised for completing all 22 greylisting action items. The final step is an on-site visit before October 2025. If all goes well, we’ll be removed from the greylist.

This progress reflects serious, high-level reform, especially in law enforcement, prosecution, and regulation. The work done at national level deserves real credit.

It’s also a moment to recognise the role of compliance teams inside organisations. Those who’ve worked through the detail of their RMCPs to align training content, sifted through (often fragmented) employee data to make sure the right people are being trained, and done the work of ensuring staff understand what’s required and why it matters.

Working alongside you we know it’s not easy. But it’s paying off.

That said, getting off the greylist doesn’t mean FICA obligations disappear. You don’t stop brushing your teeth just because they feel really clean that one time, right? Risk-based training, regular refreshers, and visible accountability will remain part of the picture, because they should be.

Fingers crossed for October.

Change like this takes everyone pulling in the same direction.
Policies and SOPs

Why so many clients are turning to Policy Passport

We’ve had a run of new Policy Passport sign-ups in the past few weeks, and what’s interesting is how similar the underlying problem is.

Clients are looking for a simpler way to make sure staff have seen, understood, and acknowledged critical internal information, without having to build a full training process around it.

It’s coming up most often in organisations with multiple sites or business units, where policies don’t always land evenly, and where reporting requirements are tightening. What they want isn’t another LMS, but a lighter way to create clarity and evidence across teams.

The need isn’t new, but the urgency seems to be growing.

We also experience a common confusion: Policy Passport isn’t a training platform. Training is there to shift behaviour, to teach people how to do something differently. Policy Passport is much more direct. It’s there to make sure people know what’s expected of them.

Think of it this way: driving lessons (training) teach you how to drive. Policy Passport is there to make sure everyone understands that you need a licence to be behind the wheel. It’s not there to develop skills, it’s there to create clarity and leave no room for “I didn’t know.”

We’d love to say a free trial is the best way to explore Policy Passport, but in truth, it rarely shows the full picture. The platform is built to solve a range of different challenges, and the best way to understand what it can do for your business is through a short, focused demo.

If you’re curious, reach out. We’d love to walk you through it and see if it’s a good fit.
For the fans

Not much drama this month, so we made you a greylist playlist

June’s been relatively quiet on the compliance training news front, which, is a rare and welcome relief. So instead of unpacking new guidance or urgent training updates, we thought we’d offer something a little lighter:

Our Now That’s What I Call Compliance playlist is now on Spotify.

Think of it as the soundtrack to your admin days, or those afternoons when you’re updating and managing training schedules and wondering if anyone else is doing anti-harassment training (they are).

Highlights include:

  • Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Stevie Wonder

  • No Surprises - Radiohead

  • We Didn’t Start the Fire - Billy Joel

We hope it brings a smile, or at least makes policy reviews slightly more tolerable.

FAQs

Got compliance questions? We’re answering them.

We’ve started a new Q&A series on LinkedIn to help answer some of the most common (and often misunderstood) questions about compliance training. Things like:

  • What is SCORM content?

  • How is compliance training different from other training?

  • What red flags should I look out for when choosing a training provider?

We’re doing it because getting compliance right matters, and that includes helping people make informed decisions, even if that means choosing someone else.

If you’ve got a question you’ve always wanted to ask, send it our way.

Thanks for reading.

As always, if there’s something you’re grappling with, let us know. We’re happy to share what we’ve seen working elsewhere.

Stay warm, stay well, and we’ll see you next month.

The Compliance Online team