BENCHMARKING SURVEY

The State of Third-Party Due Diligence 2025

How Compliance Teams Are Managing Scale, Complexity, and the New AI Frontier

Did you know that only 35% of third parties undergo enhanced due diligence (EDD?)

Third-party ecosystems are expanding faster than most compliance teams can keep up, exposing organizations to escalating regulatory, operational, and reputational risk across sprawling, multi-tier networks. In this environment, traditional, manual due diligence models are straining under the weight of scale, complexity, and new AI-driven expectations.​

So, how are compliance, risk, and legal teams modernizing due diligence to stay ahead of regulators, stakeholders, and the business? GAN Integrity partnered with Compliance Week to survey practitioners worldwide on how they assess, onboard, and continuously monitor third parties in 2025.​

This report provides insights into how teams are:

• Managing rising third-party volumes with lean compliance teams

• Addressing visibility gaps across deeper-tier suppliers and nth parties

• Structuring initial and enhanced due diligence, from triggers to timelines

• Moving from point-in-time reviews to continuous monitoring as a baseline

• Embedding AI into screening, monitoring, and ownership analysis to scale coverage