Financial Crime Compliance Turning financial crime fighting into a competitive advantage Protiviti offers a multi-dimensional set of solutions to help your organization fight financial crime while adhering to with regulatory changes. We operate in a highly collaborative environment to promote knowledge sharing and enable your teams to lead through innovative and sustainable processes. We leverage our proven solutions to help our clients manage their financial crime risks more effectively and efficiently.The financial crime landscape has become increasingly complex due to global uncertainty, increasingly sophisticated criminals and an ever-changing regulatory environment. The “cost of compliance” continues to be a significant challenge for financial services companies with innovation and technology essential to successfully addressing that challenge. We view financial crime across the following five areas:Anti-Money LaunderingFraudMarket Abuse & Trade SurveillanceAnti-Bribery & CorruptionSanctionsProtiviti helps compliance officers, board members, and all three lines of defense respond to situations of noncompliance and provide sustainable solutions.The following financial crime compliance solutions help companies around the globe identify, measure, and navigate their financial crime risks, comply with regulatory requirements, solve business problems using these proven value-added solutions in a cost-optimized way. Financial Crime costs continue to escalate, making innovative solutions even more important Financial Crime Compliance Services Pro Document Stack Assess and Assure Services We help our clients to identify, quantify, document, monitor, and manage financial crime risks across their enterprise. Our services include: Policy and procedure assessments, Risk and Controls, Regulatory assessments, Program assessments, Corrective Action Plan validations, Quality Assurance assessments, and Independent and Co-Sourced audits. Pro System Security Respond & Remediate Services In a highly regulated environment, our clients need to be able to successfully prepare for and respond to regulatory examinations and deal with the unexpected. Our services include the following: Incident and crisis response and management, regulatory/external examination planning and management, program remediation planning and execution, and regulatory change planning, management, and execution. Pro Legal Briefcase Forensic Services We help our clients investigate suspected internal fraudulent activities, corruption and misconduct quickly and confidently leveraging our forensic expertise to collect, extract and analyze data and information. Our investigation services cover: Forensic investigations related to Fraud, Anti-Bribery and Corruption, ethics and employee conduct, financial records, data breaches, claims and disputes, Third party due diligence reviews, and Business intelligence research. Pro Document Files Data and Analytics Services Data is more than ever critical to our client’s ability to optimize their Financial Crime programs, comply with applicable regulations and manage financial crime risk effectively. Our core data and analytics services include: Model development, validation, tuning, testing and optimization, Data governance assessment and program design, Data analytics strategy development and implementation, Data quality assessment and remediation, Data mapping, lineage and transformation, Data analytics architecture design and engineering, and Business intelligence reporting and dashboard design. Pro Document Consent Transformational Services We support our client’s efforts to transform their end-to-end Financial Crime operations in order to drive cost reduction, enhance risk management and minimize regulatory penalties and financial loss. We combine human intelligence with technology and tools to help uplift our client’s entire financial crime ecosystem. Our services include: Optimization diagnostics, Process re-engineering and automation, Robotics Process Automation (RPA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Operating model assessment, design and implementation, Data model and standards redesign and implementation, Technology vendor assessment and systems implementation, Transform pro... Pro Location Globe People and Organization Services Our approach to helping organizations leverage their most trusted assets, their people, is driven by our recognition that getting the best from people across every level especially in times of constant change is central to business success. Getting the right people in the right jobs with right skills together with an ability to accept, adopt and drive change will power a successful organization. Our services include: Organizational model redesign and implementation, including job design, Talent and competency assessment, competency model design and implementation, Training curriculum/program design and implementation, Change management (stake... Pro Rightmark Square Managed Services As financial crime transaction volumes grow and become more complex, organizations are under pressure to add resources. We can provide capacity through our Managed Services solutions. We combine low-cost delivery with process innovation to effectively and efficiently support both business as usual operations or one-off projects to clear backlogs or perform transactional remediations. Our core services include: File/alert processing associated with remediations, backlog clearance, and business as usual activities, Quality assurance management and execution, Ongoing risk analysis and risk analytics support, Capacity modelling, planning and mana... Our Approach We understand the drivers for our clients’ key issues and have developed fit-for-purpose, on-demand solutions, and a point of view to address these drivers. Client IssuesDriversProtiviti FCC Solutions Assess & Assure ServicesTransform ServicesData Analytics & ServicesManaged ServicesRespond & Remediate ServicesPeople & Organization ServicesForensic Services Image Unsustainable Cost of Compliance OperationsLack of automation/unproductive staffPoor policy designDisparate operational locationsLack of appropriate metrics and MI Image Image Image Image Image Image Increasing Financial Crime Attacks & ThreatsIncreased sophistication of criminalsCOVID-related fraud activitiesPhishing scams and cyber attacks Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Constant Regulatory Censure & PenaltiesConstant regulatory changeIncreasing size of regulatory finesDifficulty in addressing regulations sustainably Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Customer Friction & AttritionManual customer onboarding processesFragmented systemsLengthy cycle time to onboard customers Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Evolving Cryptocurrency/ Digital Banking Risks & IssuesSignificant growth in the number of cryptocurrencies and digital assetsDisruptive digital banking Image Image Image Image Image Image Data Volume & Quality Issues Impeding Program EffectivenessRapid growth in data volumePoor data standards and quality issuesMultiple disconnected legacy systems housing transactional data Image Image Image Our approach is to drive innovative thinking and execution and help organizations shift the narrative from assessing financial crime risk to designing, building, implementing and effectively running financial crime compliance operations in an efficient manner.Our financial crime compliance experts help organizations like yours:Develop and implement enhanced business processes related to AML Fraud, Sanctions, Market Abuse and Trade Surveillance and Anti-Bribery and Corruption.Leverage technology, innovation and data to reduce costs, adhere to regulatory requirements and address evolving client issues and challenges. 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Previous Article Pagination Next Article Leadership Mark Highton Mark Highton serves as Protiviti’s global Financial Crime Compliance leader with 20 years of industry experience and 10 years of consulting experience. Mark is responsible for the development of innovative solutions, pursuit and delivery of large-scale engagements, and ... Learn More Shaun Creegan Shaun is a Managing Director within Protiviti's Risk & Compliance practice focused on regulatory matters for Financial Services Institutions. Shaun has a subject matter expertise in Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions compliance. He has performed extensive work with ... Learn More tt tt