Anti-financial crime services

As the fight against global financial crime intensifies, financial institutions face three significant challenges:

• the ability to comply with an increasingly complex regulatory landscape;
• the need to deliver an efficient risk-based financial crime strategy; and
• the capacity to put in place effective mechanisms to respond to financial crime.

Key considerations

Complying with complex national and international financial crime regulations is no longer enough. Having the right expertise and technology in place to identify your financial crime risk exposure, and the ability to respond to threats swiftly and credibly is increasingly essential. 

A risk-based holistic approach offers the reassurance needed to achieve positive outcomes. Such outcomes include the reduced risk of fines, less operational disruption, and prevention of reputational damage linked to money laundering, fraud, bribery and corruption claims. 

Who can benefit from our services?

Those responsible for financial crime systems, controls and governance, including:

• money laundering reporting officers, 
• heads of financial crime, 
• heads of fraud,
• sanctions officers, and 
• chief risk officers. 

Organisations that would benefit from our anti-financial crime services include:

• retail banks,
• wholesale banking institutions, 
• asset management companies;
• wealth managers, 
• insurance groups,
• pensions groups,
• capital market players,
• electronic money and payment institutions
• challenger banks and financial services organisations in a growth phase looking for a more holistic approach to financial crime threats. 

Forvis Mazars’ unique approach and service offering

Our anti-financial crime services are designed to protect against a broad range of threats, including money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud, insider dealing, market abuse, sanctions breaches, bribery and corruption. We believe in giving clients direct access to our global specialists who have specific experience and high-level knowledge of financial crime threats across the financial sector.

Our services include:

• support in preparing for and in response to regulatory scrutiny and regulatory mandated reviews
• assessing, testing and monitoring financial crime threat levels and key risk detection, including as part of financial crime business wide risk assessments
• gap analysis and testing to detect weaknesses in anti-financial crime policies, procedures and controls
• compliance with local and global financial crime legislation and regulations
• designing and implementing suitable anti-financial crime programmes and structures
• reviewing and recommending improvements to existing programmes
• developing tailored risk response plans and target operating models
• support on anticipating future financial crime risks
• strengthening financial crime controls to ensure they keep pace with business growth
• financial crime training design, delivery and assessment
• performing look-back investigations into sanctions breaches
• forensic investigations 

Our anti-financial crime service offering is transparent, proactive, holistic, and provides the right level of expertise and technology clients demand and deserve. Protecting your reputation is our top aim.