International Compliance Association is launching AI training courses and educational resources with Zango AI for compliance professionals in financial services. Announced in London on 21 April, the partnership is intended to help teams understand and apply AI in regulated environments.
The organisations cited research from the Financial Services Skills Commission showing that AI is the most in-demand technical skill for 94% of financial services businesses. ICA said many organisations still do not offer dedicated compliance AI training, while employees often complete only mandatory courses when they are available.
Zango AI will develop and deliver the programme using lessons from its work deploying AI agents for risk and compliance tasks including horizon scanning, policy and controls gap analysis, and financial promotions review. Ritesh Singhania, CEO of Zango AI, said: “AI and agentic systems have huge potential to improve productivity and strengthen compliance across financial services, but there is a skills gap – many teams haven’t received practical training on how to use or govern them. This partnership with the ICA is about equipping compliance professionals to adopt AI responsibly, based on our real-world experience of deploying AI agents across financial institutions.”
ICA said the training will focus on practical governance, risk, and AI applications. Members will also have access to a pilot version of Zango’s platform, which uses AI agents trained on financial services regulations for work including horizon scanning and policy gap analysis. Rob Phillipson, Managing Director of ICA, said: “ICA’s role is to raise professional standards across compliance and, with AI top of mind across industry, our training courses with Zango will be central to responsible AI adoption within financial services.”
