# Compliance

Source: https://docs.settlemint.com/docs/console/compliance
The Compliance group of the Console sidebar: policy templates, global controls and the identity evidence every check reads.

The **Compliance** group sets the rules every ordinary transfer and mint is checked against. Its screens divide the work:

- **Policy templates** attach compliance rules to an instrument template.
- **Global controls** apply rules to every bound token.
- **Verification topics** name the kinds of identity evidence those rules read.
- **Trusted issuers** may attest those topics against a participant's on-chain identity.
- **Compliance providers** issue those verifications from a vendor's verdicts.

Set up the evidence first, because a rule that requires a topic no trusted issuer attests fails every holder. A Custodian's forced transfer, a wallet recovery and an address on the compliance bypass list skip those checks, as [Compliance policy](https://docs.settlemint.com/docs/concepts/compliance-and-identity/compliance-policy) describes. [Compliance modules](https://docs.settlemint.com/docs/concepts/compliance-and-identity/compliance-modules) explains what each rule checks.


  - [Policy templates](https://docs.settlemint.com/docs/console/compliance/policy-templates): Assemble reusable compliance rules for instrument templates and asset issuance.
  - [Global controls](https://docs.settlemint.com/docs/console/compliance/global-controls): Configure compliance controls that apply to every token bound to your compliance engine.
  - [Verification topics](https://docs.settlemint.com/docs/console/compliance/verification-topics): Define the verification topics that classify identity evidence.
  - [Trusted issuers](https://docs.settlemint.com/docs/console/compliance/trusted-issuers): Authorise identity issuers for specific verification topics.
  - [Compliance providers](https://docs.settlemint.com/docs/console/compliance/compliance-providers): Connect an identity or screening vendor to issue and revoke verifications automatically.