Financial Crimes Advisory
We provide a full suite of solutions to help clients find and implement ways to make their financial crimes programs more efficient without compromising effectiveness; and address the most complex, high-profile investigations and monitorships.
BRG experts have been executing financial crimes risk, compliance, and investigations engagements since the firm’s founding in 2010, leveraging decades of experience managing and investigating financial crimes matters. With a global footprint in over forty offices, we serve domestic and international clients of all types and sizes, including both traditional financial institutions and digital assets.
Our experts include experienced industry and government leaders comprising former regulators, chief compliance officers (CCOs), Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions officers, data scientists, technologists, law enforcement officers, project managers, and auditors; as well as Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists, Certified Fraud Examiners, and certified blockchain analytics professionals.
As an industry leader in deploying cutting-edge regulatory technology tools, BRG understands how to use technology for maximum benefit, with appropriate governance and risk management focused on maintaining sound compliance practices.
In addition to our financial crimes experts, our highly skilled offshore team in Argentina enables BRG to deliver cost-effective solutions to our clients, while avoiding the operational challenges typically associated with significant time-zone differences.
Financial Crimes Services
Program Development and Enhancement
- Gap analyses and diagnostic reviews
- Governance framework development
- Risk assessment and risk appetite statements
- Organizational design
- Policies and procedures development and implementation
- Target operating model assessment and design
- Ongoing program reporting
- Transaction monitoring and investigations
- Market surveillance
Regulatory Response
- Transaction monitoring and suspicious activity reporting (SAR) lookbacks
- Know your customer (KYC) remediation and lookbacks
- Program assessment and remediation
- Monitorships
- Outsourced and augmented resources
- Project management office (PMO) support
Partnership and Acquisition Support
- Initial and ongoing partner assessments
- Vendor and vendor-of-vendor reviews
- Acquisition due diligence
- Merger integration assistance
- Banking as a Service (BaaS) and fintech partner assessments
