Office of the

CRO

Data driven approach to
optimising financial crime operations

Spiralling cost of compliance have strained existing systems. There is a need to change gears and consider radical approaches to modernising risk operating models that can be both, strategically relevant, & sustainable.

At Karmine, we understand challenges of building and maintaining an internal control framework that aligns adequately to meet such requirements. Coupled with data complexity, the task for ensuring compliance of the highest standards becomes all the more daunting.

We assist organizations in implementing programs and / or assessing program’s effectiveness.

Our holistic solutions reflect our industry expertise, experience in conducting assessments, and our analytics capabilities. Through our global partnerships, clients can leverage domain expertise and rely on their local presence.

Anti-Financial Crime
- Modernisation Hub

1. Strategy & Transformation

Target operating model design & deployment

Take a fresh strategic look at your operating model & build a brave future-state blue print. Deploy a robust cohesive framework of people, process & technology to manage financial crime prevention & detection programme in a balanced & optimal manner.

Program maturity assessment & re-design

Conduct financial crime maturity assessment and test the waters against our benchmarked maturity model.
Leverage our leading data & process mining technology enablers to identify and remediate areas of strategic & tactical weak-links.

2. Performance & Efficiency

Enterprise-wide risk assessments

Design operating effectiveness reviews to assess extent of compliance against entity Risk Based Approach and board approved principles.

Market leading automation workflows and reporting systems to consolidate entity wide data to build robust & comprehensive reports that can aid regulatory & board requirements.

Fraud / Anti-bribery & corruption reviews

Program assessments to identify potential fraud risks and advise on remediation plans and mitigating controls from a design and operating effectiveness perspective.

Scenario tuning / alert volume optimisation

Building efficiencies & effectiveness with transaction monitoring alert management our using 3M approach – Model Calibration, Model Validation and Model Enhancement. Direct accrued benefits through reduction in false positive volumes & enrichment of alert quality.

3. Remediation & Fact Find

Support around monitorship reviews

Providing much needed ground-work for responding optimally to regulatory feedback, and enhancing internal control framework to meet regulatory expectations and group strategic objectives.

Fact finding & Investigations

We support through every step of reviews - responding to an incident, uncovering critical facts, enabling communication with regulators, remediation modelling, and, repairing reputational damage.

4. Data & Technology

Anti-financial crime system implementation

Implementation and enhancement of their existing digital levers to achieve efficient monitoring & reporting of financial crime. Our analytics expertise helps clients develop effective compliance, detection and risk management programs.

Risk model optimisation

Support around tuning / calibration of risk model, rule engine and validation of workflows.

Data strategy, orchestration & resolution

Data integrity & quality assessment leveraging cutting edge data & process mining tools.

Counterparty behavioural analytics

Leveraging machine learning and predictive analytics for enhanced efficiencies around risk mitigation.

Managed
Services (POD)

Our clients can scale their capacity aligned with requirements, without the burden of finding, training & maintaining the right talent mix. Our hub & spoke model ensures we suitably take advantage of onshore, offshore, and nearshore bubbles to align with client objectives.

Our strategic alliances with technology partnerships enable us to provide through the managed services, intuitive customisable workflows, flexible rule engines, audit trail and MIS dashboarding capabilities aligned to industry leading practices.

Analytics
  • Leverage cloud-based advanced analytics and embedded AI via subscription model.
  • Hub & Spoke model for periodic second line of defence audit testing & assurance reviews
Operations & Fact Find
  • Cloud based fact find workflow & reporting
  • AML / Sanctions case Investigation & alert disposition unit
  • KYC Refresh / Remediation
Third Party Risk Management
  • Holistic tech enabled TPRM process, workflow, analytics & reporting centre
  • Augmented support for periodic audits & BI needs

Case Studies