Key Offerings

We provide “end to end” value-added services to our clients in the enterprise risk management space. A key part of our offering is the ability to develop action plans that contribute significantly to improving risk management and controls. Although our experts in the three strands of credit, market and operational risk will help firms comply with the Basel Capital Accord, our focus is on Active Risk Management .

In other words, we work with our clients on optimising their risk management and control, rather than static risk measurement.

Operational Risk Control

We combine analytical skills with experience in utilizing risk/reward methodologies to solve a comprehensive range of risk problems. These include measurement of risk adjusted performance, allocation of economic capital to profit centres and transfer pricing of complex structures. Our approach is enterprise wide in that we add value to strategy, organization, measurement and infrastructure in the context of the risk enterprise space.

We typically stay on to guide and support organizations in implementing their chosen strategy, aligning the “nuts and bolts” with business process and structure.

We ensure that the finance function is able to support our client's business objectives and can give a proper assessment of the risk/reward ratio of individual product lines. Further, we ensure that our client's trading & risk systems and product control functions are fully integrated.

We assess clients' reporting systems to see if they fully comply with regulatory and prudential accounting standards and can offer guidance as to what degree 'best practice' has been incorporated in solutions available from the software market.

We advise either executive directors or non-executives on the appropriate Corporate Governance structure. In order to avoid a conflict of interest we never advise executives and non-executives from the same client.

We are not a specialist operational and settlement systems integrators. Instead we provide high-level consultancy and leverage off our extensive Associate Network of specialists to ensure that the chosen solution is aligned with our client's business objectives. We also bring our risk management experience to bear on risk reduction, including the introduction of clearing solutions and streamlining them where they already are in place.

We provide senior professional management (CFO/COO/CRO) to clients on an interim full-time or part-time basis. This allows clients to benefit from the in-depth knowledge of a financial market professional without incurring the cost of an equivalent full-time permanent employee.

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