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Insights from PwC’s Global Compliance Survey 2025​

Moving faster: How business leaders in ​Viet Nam can reinvent compliance to speed up
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  • May 07, 2025

Navigating Viet Nam’s evolving compliance landscape requires agility and innovation. Businesses must move swiftly to identify emerging risks, leverage reliable data, and integrate new technologies into their compliance frameworks.

Going too slow may leave companies lagging behind; moving too fast without the right infrastructure risks overlooking crucial gaps. With significant regulatory changes and shifting stakeholder expectations, traditional methods relying on increased manpower and controls are unsustainable. ​

‘Compliance by design’—integrating technology, talent, and strategic vision—enables organisations to anticipate threats and foster resilience. By embedding these elements into their core operations, companies can confidently navigate compliance challenges, maintain trust, and stay ahead of market disruptions.”​

Xavier Potier

Partner​, Risk Services Leader​, PwC Vietnam

Winning through compliance innovation

PwC’s Global Compliance Survey 2025​

PwC conducted a survey of executives to obtain their perspectives on compliance practices, challenges, and ways they are evolving to remain fit for the future. Our survey represents feedback from:​

  • 1,802 executives in the first, second and third line, including business leaders (38%), Chief Compliance Officers (25%), Chief Risk Officers (14%), Chief Audit Executives (9%), and General Counsel/Heads of Legal (5%)​
  • 63 territories, covering Europe (29%), North America (26%), Asia Pacific (22%), Latin America (15%), Middle East (6%) and Africa (2%)​
  • A broad mix of industry sectors, including financial services (29%), industrial products and services (20%), technology, media and telecommunications (14%), consumer markets (14%), and health industries (10%)​
  • Companies operating domestically and internationally. 54% have annual revenues greater than $1 billion​

The new strategic value of Compliance​

71%

expect to undertake digital transformation​ initiatives over the next three years that require the support of Compliance.

41%

need support related to new business models.​

Executive Summary

01

The Complex

Compliance

Ecosystem​

02

Evolving

Compliance ​

for Growth

03

Connected

Compliance

Empowers​ 

04

Accelerated​

Tech-Driven

Compliance

05

Compliance

Leadership

Push​
  • The compliance ecosystem is more complex and connected than ever before. ​
  • It is driven by transformation, cross- industry reinvention and new business models. 
  • The common denominator is the focus on technology risks, particularly cyber security and data privacy and protection – a top priority for 51% of respondents.​
  • A majority of respondents (77%) stated that their company had been negatively impacted to some or a great extent by compliance complexity across several areas that drive growth. ​
  • This creates an imperative for companies to evolve compliance to alleviate the commercial impact and unlock its potential for ‘value creation’.
  • Companies have to tailor compliance models that are right for them. ​
  • A ‘connected compliance’ is important for better decision-making, transparency and culture.​
  • 59% of respondents cited greater confidence in compliance decision-making because of better coordination.​
  • Compliance technology is already helping companies move faster, navigate complexity, and avoid hazards. ​
  • This includes better visibility of risks and risk management activities (64%), faster identification and proactive response to compliance issues (53%), higher quality/more insightful reporting (48%), and increased productivity and cost savings (43%).​
  • There is a sense of urgency and an opportunity to accelerate transformation and pioneer new compliance approaches. ​
  • Only 7% of respondents currently consider themselves to be leading in compliance, yet 38% aim to be leading within three years.​

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Xavier Potier

Partner, Risk Services Leader, PwC Vietnam

Tel: +84 28 3823 0796

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Pho Duc Giang, CISSP, CISA

Partner, Digital Trust and Cybersecurity Services, PwC Vietnam Cybersecurity Services Company

Tel: +84 28 3823 0796

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Yu Loong Goh

Director, IT Risk Services, PwC Vietnam

Tel: +84 28 38230796

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