The global compliance landscape is getting trickier and riskier while it's becoming more difficult and costly to recruit senior compliance talent, according to a new report from the legal research arm of Thomson Reuters. 

Of the nearly 500 compliance practitioners who participated in Regulatory Intelligence's latest annual "Cost of Compliance" study, 66% expected the cost of senior compliance staff to increase during the next year, up from 47% in last year's survey. 

The survey participants work for global systemically important banks, other banks, insurers, asset and wealth managers, regulators, broker-dealers and payment services providers. Half of the respondents were U.S.-based, while 20% were in Europe, 20% in Asia and 10% scattered throughout the rest of the world.