Services & Solutions

We align to the organisational ambitions and strategy for digitization. The Finance, Risk and Compliance control processes should integrate with your business ambitions. We draft a strategy together, bringing outside-in views, rethinking your world and facilitating the iterative process of defining a strategy. We design in collaboration a process to maintain the living stragegy. Part of this process is the more tactical definition of ways of working and defining what is needed to start operationalising the ambition. It includes potential technical support and MVP/POC-like developments to proof solutions. Then we will jointly define the agile planning of the operations. Which entity or process first, how to link into the need for change or improvement (projects) and how to prioritise high risk areas and issues. Your organisation will find that the deliverable brings a living strategy that is enabled by tools and approaches and realised in an agile, incremental process.

Our service focuses on delivering a smart approach to regulatory change. Our value is in the fundamental *) approach of your organisation for each change requirement. We take each change as an opportunity to enable your organisation to digitize and structure your environment. We design an ecosystem, however simple or complex, that is needed to establish the change. In line with your corporate and Finance/Risk/Compliance Digital Savvy Strategy. The ecosystem includes your target landscape for automation, including potential outside solutions and (temporary) tools to achieve a robust and compliant process. Our role is to be the ecosystem architect, managing the approach, guiding the team through the change and facilitating the fundamental approach including offering (or establishing) the foundation.*)

Typical areas where change is required, due to supervisory attention or to new regulation or interpretation are: anti money laundering (AML)/ know your customer (KYC), Mifid, ESG, SFTR, BCBS 239 and . We bring content expertise if needed and can mobilise a fit for purpose team to deliver. Root cause analyses show that renewed attention for regulation is often required due to a lack of consistency and incompleteness of implementation or execution of the control frameworks. Our approach covers consistency, digitization and the ability to continuously monitor adherence to an implemented rule.

*) Fundamental and foundation refer to a semantic data layer (throughout website)

Our service focuses on the data quality standards and structures. How does your organisation manage data, identify and structure data. Is it complete, are controls in place and do you measure the level of quality? It is our experience that data quality is identified and measured in some cases, but often standardisation and control is lacking. Smarter data quality practices need to include structure and a consistent approach. Our service caters for a structure grid to capture data requirements and “secundairy data” and a consistent approach. Embedded in a regulatory platform that allows organisations to capture their approach, analyses and information about their data consistently, accelerates organisations to start managing their data quality and increase the level of digitization and smart use of their data.

Our service focuses on sharing insights and experience in working smarter. In finding the right approach and ways of working to deal better with change and improvements in the control environment. Our role is to facilitate your teams. We collaborate with management, change and run teams to define the need or potential for automation, digital smarts and structuring the current processes and workflows.

We are enable your teams and people. We bring technology if needed, or find solutions and developments that fit to your ambitions. We are there to listen, to feedback, to challenge and to suggest. Your team can interact in Q&A sessions, or ask for support in defining a working approach to their latest challenge.

Core components of our contribution are our people and experience, our understanding of data and technology, our experience with ecosystems and potential partners in the tech and finance arena. We feed in, enable your team, and can step in and contribute if needed. We facilitate. Smart.

Our service focuses on the identification and assessment of your current state of digitization in relation to your issues. We jointly set the ambition for the area in which your issues occur. We stay aligned with your corporate “Digital Savvy Strategy” and potential directions for the control environment. We find that a structured capturing of data in a digitized format, following a regulatory requirements-model, helps organisations to better solve issues, prioritise and improve control. Capturing the flow of activities and data in the specific domain enables the organisation to analyse the quality of control and high impact improvement areas. We support our clients with both the experience to structure your issue solving process as technology that will last.

When your organisation conducts an analysis in order to solve regulatory issues, not only the gaps and improvements in the core of the processes are relevant. We consider the process and flow of issue analysis and improvement as a key enabler for your organisation to embed the improvements in a structured manner. It prevents redoing the work in the same area, helps standardise the improvement throughout your organisation and meanwhile helps building the content foundation of your organisation. Incrementally.

As part of this service, we conduct challenge analyses and sessions to help identify areas where automation can help to make impact and improve control.

This service focuses on enabling your organisational control strategy to become more “digital savvy”. Our experience in the development of smart technology and platforms, including our Fimantic platform in our current off the shelve offerings, accelerates your ambition. We ensure in collaboration that the organisational starting point is defined and our service to lay a foundation that is aligned with your strategic goals in digitization and working smarter in the control environment. Our philosophy is to enable organisations with a semantic approach which includes the intelligence between digitzed data. It allows for a more agile control environment, instant analysis of your control and building digital smarts as the semantic layer provides standardization and identification.

Our service focuses on the definition for C-Level of control. We have fast experience in defining and assessing (or auditing if you wish) control frameworks and compliance to audit standards. This service starts with a”n “end-of-chain” dashboard in which all relevant regulation and managerial needs are consolidated. The quality of control and level of effectiveness are key indicators for C-Level control and is presented in the smart dashboard. Our approach caters for an incremental process to build top down control in your organisation. This service also caters for inclusiveness of issue analyses, regulatory change and audit trailing efforts if using our same digital smart approach. While working with your teams on this approach across your organisation, C-Level starts to increase its level of real time control over regulatory adherence and control effectiveness.

Our service focuses on your regulatory reports. Whether it is an ISAE 3402 report, COREP or ESG report. We analyse in collaboration, based on our expertise with the subject matter the initial basis for the required controls. Based on our joint understanding we trail and capture semantic information of the controls as currently set up, executed and monitored. Based on our analyses we deliver the actual trail, controls, current state of controls and potential gaps or areas to gain efficiency. The trail and semantic model can be made available as a service from the cloud.

This approach is also suited to capture an audit trail for specific purposes. Whether it is a new ESG report, a regulatory report (Anacredit, AQR) or a compliance report (sign of including audit trail for KYC), we deliver the trail and semantic model, potentially as a service from the cloud.

Our service focuses on defining the minimum set of regulatory requirements. It follows the organisational risk appetite and control frameworks. We bring our deep experience in auditing and control design to ensure the organisation meets regulatory requirements without losing agility, efficience and people’s energy in over-controlling. It is a common remark that people throughout the organisation have a too strong focus on finance/risk/compliance control management and lack time to focus on clients, services/products and innovation/improvements. Our approach is to build better insights in the control frameworks and how they are established and operated. It uses our unique smart approach establishing a semantic data layer in your organisation that offers the ability to proof regulatory adherence on detailed requirements level and proof when control is adequate and therefore reduce operational control activities to an adequate level.

Our service focuses on establishing smart, automated and data driven solutions. We have developed technology for many years and share our experience, the dos and don'ts that we encountered during our journey. We build API’s, data-structures, intelligence (AI, smart routines and the like) and make solutions work. We apply suitable (and up to date) approaches for the collaboration in the ecosystem of delivering those automated solutions. We provide advise regarding the latest (proven or early stage) components to be used and depending on our collaboration arrangements, we advise or design the (ecosystem)architecture needed to build & operate the service.

Our contribution is a.o. found in “we have done it before”, the ability to challenge you to do new and other things than you did before and our experience and breadth and depth of our tech/dev/data capabilities. We deliver this service from our ecosystem and connect to the ecosystem we jointly design for your solution.

Our service focuses on enabling each person involved in your Finance/Risk/Compliance control framework to work smarter. Not only focusing on the Finance, Risk and or Compliance function and its people, also business, communications/marketing and legal people are impacted by regulatory requirements. They are the foundation of your business and a sound client-servicing or products distribution. Each workplace is enabled with a SmartUp Platform instance to start digitizing your personal environment. Our service includes bringing understanding of the SmartUp Platform, how to use it both to capture as to retrieve insights. This service can be delivered as a cloud service on pay per use basis per workplace. It is fully flexible and simultaneously brings standardisation to your workplaces across your organisation. The service is much aligned with scientific insights that enabling your people and providing all with the tools and approaches to contribute to a bottom-up scaling of the digital capabilities of your organisation is a crucial element to developing digital smarts and digital savviness in your organisation. It enables imcremental improvements.