Financial Crime Compliance
Financial crime harms businesses and society. Inadequate risk management can lead to reputational damage, lost revenue, increased costs, business disruption, and legal and regulatory censure.
Our team helps you stay ahead of the risks with end-to-end financial crime risk management and compliance services that safeguard your organisation, reputation and the communities you serve.
Protect your business from financial crime
HKA helps organisations tackle financial crime arising from a risk incident, supervision or enforcement action, or strategic risk management requirements. Our global team can work closely with your business to manage risk, strengthen controls and promote compliance. Our advisory services, underpinned by our forensic technology, data and analytics capabilities, include:
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF) & Counter Proliferation Financing (CPF): Designing, reviewing, and enhancing AML, TF and PF frameworks to comply with global standards and local regulations.
- Sanctions & Export Controls: Navigating complex, fast-changing sanction regimes and trade rules. Ensuring your operations remain agile in dynamic environments.
- Fraud: Implementing robust prevention and detection controls and analytics to identify and mitigate fraudulent activity.
- Bribery & Corruption: Assessing vulnerabilities and developing programs to prevent bribery and corruption.
- Market Abuse: Strengthening controls to detect and prevent insider trading, market manipulation and other abusive practices.
- Integrity Risk: Aligning ethical practices with everyday actions to positively affect culture and decision-making.
- Third Party Due Diligence: Performing enhanced due diligence of vendors, agents, and intermediaries to identify red flags and ensure ethical alignment.
- Transactional Due Diligence: Examining potential business partners, mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures to expose irregularities and reputational concerns in pre- and post-transaction environments.
- Facilitation of Tax Evasion: Assessing risk exposure and implementing controls to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion.
- Investigations & Dispute Support: Enabling robust investigation and whistleblowing protocols, processes, and readiness, conducting efficient investigations, and providing expert support in disputes involving financial crime.
Why HKA
HKA is an independent consultancy with specialists in financial crime compliance, fraud and integrity risk management, remediation and response matters. Our experts assist financial institutions, corporates, charitable and purpose-driven organisations, and public sector organisations in navigating complex regulatory landscapes, strengthening compliance frameworks, and aligning with global and industry standards.
Our global team of financial crime risk management experts brings deep knowledge and hands-on experience across all facets of the fight against financial crime in multiple industry sectors, including financial services, construction, energy, aerospace, technology, education, agriculture, manufacturing, consumer markets, not-for-profit, and government.
HKA’s expertise spans jurisdictions, providing insights that address both global standards and local regulatory environments.
We leverage advanced analytics and digital tools to stay ahead of emerging threats.
Our global team of financial crime risk management experts brings deep knowledge and hands-on experience across all facets of the fight against financial crime in multiple industry sectors, including financial services, construction, energy, aerospace, technology, education, agriculture, manufacturing, consumer markets, not-for-profit, and government.
HKA’s expertise spans jurisdictions, providing insights that address both global standards and local regulatory environments.
We leverage advanced analytics and digital tools to stay ahead of emerging threats.
How we can help you
Don’t wait for financial crime to threaten your organisation. Partner with HKA to proactively identify, manage, and mitigate risk. Discover how our experts can help you build a resilient and compliant business.
- Independent Programme Effectiveness Assessments (including s.166 Skilled Person Reviews in the UK): Reviews commissioned by regulators, boards, banking partners, internal audit, compliance, and SMTs.
- Enhanced Due Diligence & Business Intelligence: Verifying information and understanding blind spots about a business or an individual, enabling decision makers to assess risk before entering into a transaction or agreement.
- Lookbacks & Investigations: Deep dive reviews and historical lookbacks, for example transaction monitoring, due diligence, trade finance, correspondent banking, whistleblower allegations, screening, and outsourced arrangements. Investigations governance and readiness exercises, including whistleblowing framework reviews.
- Programme Development: Creating frameworks for new entrants or responding to requirements due to new legislation and regulation. Includes risk assessments, policies, procedures, controls monitoring, governance, KPI and KRI development etc.
- Remediation & Transformations: Design, enhancement and quality assurance of the framework to meet regulatory and legislative requirements, and operational effectiveness.
- Technology Assessment, Data Analytics & Vendor Selection: Effectiveness assessments, tuning and testing for risk management models, monitoring and screening tools. Vendor selection support for new technologies.
- Training & Awareness: effective training solutions designed to be engaging for general awareness, role specific, SMTs and boards.
- Regulatory Advisory: Skilled Person firm side support, strategic support navigating complex regulatory issues, lifting business restrictions.
Working closely with you to understand unique risks and deliver tailored strategies and actionable solutions to meet your advisory needs.
