Kharon’s The Brief: Tariffs Showed Companies ‘the Underlying Structure of Risk Itself Had Changed’

Assessing 2025’s biggest storylines and what’s coming in 2026, Descartes’ Jackson Wood shares that risk and compliance wasn’t defined by a single enforcement action or a headline-grabbing policy change but by companies’ realization that the underlying structure of risk itself had changed—and that compliance programs built for yesterday’s linear supply chains simply will not get the job done in an era of more diffuse and broadly-networked risk.