CFOs’ legacy internal control systems will face an AI-powered SEC

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The SEC is using AI and data-driven investigations to enhance its ability to identify financial misconduct, leaving CFOs facing the challenge of bringing internal controls up to speed with automated financial processes. Its fiscal 2026 enforcement results show that the SEC took 348 enforcement actions and ordered more than $1 billion in monetary relief, and that it has established the Office of Super Intelligence and Analytics and the Financial Reporting and Accounting Unit.