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Risk and compliance efficiency and effectiveness
Results of the industry survey
Our findings reveal important trends in how organisations approach risk and compliance, highlighting key challenges, opportunities for improvement, and varying risk and compliance operating models.
Unlocking the value of risk management and governance remains challenging – improving effectiveness, meeting stakeholder expectations, enhancing cost-efficiency and embedding within the culture.
We take a 360 degree view of risk management and governance focused on informed decision making, helping you to enhance effectiveness and efficiency in line with your maturity expectations.
Our specialists can help you by reviewing existing governance and risk frameworks, supporting you in enhancing aspects of their effectiveness or efficiency, or helping you to implement new regulatory requirements.
We seek to ensure that we understand your business needs and find pragmatic ways to enhance the value that risk management and governance bring to your organisation, in line with your commercial objectives and the nature, scale and complexity of your organisation.
Risk-based decision making
We believe risk management exists to help you to make better decisions through an enhanced understanding and consideration of risk. We review your existing risk management framework and approaches, their design and implementation, to ensure they are fit for purpose and align with your strategic objectives.
Risk-based decision making
Driven by your needs
We take the time to understand your needs and desired outcomes. This allows us to develop approaches to enhance governance, risk and compliance that fits your business and aspirations. Our specialists do not believe one size fits all and utilise their real-world experience to offer you practical recommendations.
Driven by your needs
Collaborative approach
In order to ensure solutions are proportionate to the maturity, scale and complexity of your organisation, we go on the journey with you. We work with you as a team, in a practical and pragmatic manner to ensure that business objectives and provide the solutions that suit you best.
Collaborative approach
Future-proof solutions
We believe risk and governance should be sustainable, not needing to be re-designed every few years. Partnering with us means that we can help you embed the changes suggested to improve your governance and risk management incrementally, to deliver long-term value.
Future-proof solutions
Services
How we can help you
- Review risk and governance frameworks
- Enhance existing risk management and governance tools and approaches
- Implement new regulatory requirements
Risk management and governance frameworks need regular reviews to ensure that they fit the nature, scale and complexity of the organisation and are well-designed, implemented and embedded.
Drivers of reviews can include changes in key stakeholders and a desire to further enhance the approach to meet business developments or regulatory needs.
We work with you to understand your motivation and deliver a review that is consistent with your needs.
| What we do: Effectiveness reviews | Effectiveness and efficiency reviews (including skills, capability and capacity) | Maturity assessment | Reviews of regulatory implementation (including consumer duty and FRC code) | Governance and board effectiveness reviews | SME support for internal audit reviews. Benefits: Reviews that help you to understand your current position and identify practical, proportionate areas for improvement. |
Approaches and tools for risk management and governance need to reflect your business model, target maturity and intended use in risk-based decision-making.
We work with you to ensure we develop enhanced tools and approaches that reflect that and support your ambitions.
| What we do: Risk mandate | Risk universe and strategy | Risk appetite | Policy | Conflicts of interest | Emerging risks | Risk and control self-assessment | Sustainability integration | Implementation of Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) technology solutions | Risk assurance approaches | Model risk management | ORSA and risk reporting development | Incident management | Organisation and governance design | Risk culture assessment and development | Resource provision. Benefits: Pragmatic enhancements to tools and approaches that support your ambitions and enable risk-based decision making in the organisation. |
We work with you to ensure that regulatory requirements are implemented in a way that reflects your business model and aspirations and builds on your existing approaches.
Solutions are developed in partnership to enable knowledge transfer, to create buy-in and increase embedding.
This enables the development of approaches to meet regulatory requirements that fit your business and are sustainable for the long-term.
| What we do: Board training | New FRC Corporate Governance Code implementation | Recovery, resolution and exit planning | Code of practice requirements for risk and governance for occupational pension schemes. Benefits: Implementation of regulatory requirements in line with stakeholder expectations, approached in an integrated and embedded way that supports a practical, cost-efficient approach. |
Navigating Soft Market Conditions
The London Market is a critical point as softening market conditions can influence underwriting and pricing.
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How you can utilise artificial intelligence, enabling your people and organisation to operate more efficiently and effectively.
Next Generation CRO Group
Our Next Generation Chief Risk Officer (CRO) Group is designed to support the transition to the CRO role in insurance, asset management, and wealth management. Our platform offers emerging CROs the opportunity to validate and refine their perspectives and exchange insights with peers, executives, non-executive directors (NEDs), and current CROs.
Together, we explore real-world challenges and practical solutions for current and aspiring CROs.
Contact Isaac Alfon to find out more.
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Working together we can help you successfully adapt and overcome the challenges you may face, both today and in the future.
Acting as your trusted partner, through practical and proportionate approaches, our work can help you become more sustainable, more resilient, and more adaptable to change and uncertainty.