United Kingdom

Financial Crime Risk Management

Financial crime – whether from fraud, theft, money laundering, corruption or market abuse – brings a huge cost to business. In addition to the direct losses, it often causes substantial reputational and regulatory damage. For several years, reducing financial crime has been a top priority for regulators around the globe – some of whom are increasingly assertive in exercising their full legal powers both domestically and across national borders.

Navigant helps businesses anticipate and respond to financial crime risks quickly, efficiently and effectively. Our team includes forensic accountants, ex-regulators and law enforcement officers, former auditors, business intelligence researchers and technologists. 

Our team can provide support if you:

  • Need to increase ability to identify and investigate suspicious transactions.
  • Want to conduct background research into potential recruits, customers, vendors, business partners or acquisition targets.
  • Uncover or suspect money laundering, corruption, market abuse, fraud or other illegal activity affecting your business.
  • Need support in responding to claims of illegality by whistle-blowers or others.
  • Are subject to a regulatory investigation into criminal activity, such as foreign corruption or money laundering.
  • Wish to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of risk management processes and supporting technologies.

Our services include:

  • Risk management & compliance
  • Background intelligence gathering
  • Due diligence on potential business partners
  • Vendor and employee screening
  • Design of recruitment, ethics and whistle-blowing policies
  • Fraud and financial crime risk identification
  • Suspicious transaction identification and investigation
  • Compliance process improvement
  • IT effectiveness & software selection