Tag: Financial Crime Risk Assessment

For years, spreadsheets have been the default tool for financial crime risk assessments. They were familiar, flexible and easy to adapt, and for a...

For many organisations, the financial crime risk assessment is still a box to be ticked. It is completed, filed and forgotten until the next...

A financial crime risk assessment can only be as reliable as the framework underpinning it. Firms that treat methodology, governance and workflow as administrative...

Many organisations believe their financial crime risk assessment is working simply because it gets done every year. The routine is well rehearsed. Spreadsheets are...

Firms can invest heavily in sophisticated systems and refined methodologies, but neither will produce a reliable financial crime risk assessment without capable people behind...

It is a familiar boardroom moment. A compliance team flags the need to modernise its financial crime risk assessment process, and someone from IT...

Financial crime risk assessments only work when governance holds everything together. These assessments pull input from business units, risk and compliance teams, technology functions,...

On paper, most financial institutions appear well defended. Policies are documented, procedures mapped, systems described as resilient, staff trained and audits scheduled. The result...

There is a familiar refrain that echoes through financial institutions when compliance teams request new tooling: "We can build this internally — it's just...

There is a pattern that most money laundering reporting officers (MLROs) will recognise immediately. A request goes out for inputs to the financial crime...