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Health Check & Maturity Assessment

All firms must review their AML and broader FC programmes on a regular basis to ensure that it conforms to current regulatory requirements and are fit for purpose. With ever changing legislation, all firms should be vigilant in identifying and protecting themselves against potential money laundering activities to avoid financial scrutiny and hefty fines.

Health checks and Maturity Assessments can identify any regulatory and policy gaps or areas of concern in a firm’s framework. A health check refers to a high-level review of the design of a framework and can identify major problem areas in a framework. A maturity assessment is more advanced and provides a detailed review of a firm’s framework which includes the testing of the effectiveness of the framework itself.

Independent testing of a firm’s FC framework is a very important requirement from regulators to show that all controls are indeed effective.

In line with Industry Regulations

The checks and assessments are completed in line with the current industry regulations and best practice and benchmarked against the firm’s business model and risk appetite.

  • We provide a detailed plan to advise firms on the next steps that should be taken to meet the regulatory requirements

  • Our Health check and Maturity assessments can be tailored to meet the specific requirements of any firm

  • Our experts have extensive experience in understanding the expectations from global regulators around the world

The difference between the two

A health check refers to a high-level review of the design of a framework and can identify major problem areas in a framework. A maturity assessment is more advanced and provides a detailed review of a firm’s framework which includes the testing of the effectiveness of the framework itself.

Health Check

Maturity Assessment

Review of policies relating to relevant regulations
Review of policies relating to relevant regulations
High Level mapping of policy to regulatory obligations
High Level mapping of policy to regulatory obligations
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Review all procedures relating to operational controls and map these back to the policies
Review all procedures relating to operational controls and map these back to the policies
High Level review of the regulatory framework covering relevant systems, processes and ensuring that governance is in place in order to meet current regulatory requirements
High Level review of the regulatory framework covering relevant systems, processes and ensuring that governance is in place in order to meet current regulatory requirements
Best practices included
Review of all procedures, controls and processes
Review of all procedures, controls and processes
Carrying out a sample review of the operational outputs (files, reports etc.) in line with current policy and procedures
Reviewing any risk methodologies applied in relation to the specific regulations
Reviewing and testing any monitoring programme - this will include system profiling and reviewing parameters, as well as sample checking the outcome.
Reviewing the firm’s reporting (regulatory reporting, SARs, STORs etc) and monitoring controls
Reviewing and testing the internal and external data inputs to the process and on-going review and escalation processes
Brief review of systems which the firm uses to benchmark to best practice
Brief review of systems which the firm uses to benchmark to best practice
Data integrity is reviewed to match
Reviewing the training programmes
Reviewing the training programmes
Reviewing the data retention/record keeping arrangement in relation to its obligations
Reviewing the data retention/record keeping arrangement in relation to its obligations
Meeting with personnel in the 1st and 2nd line of defence to understand the processes they undertake and to ascertain the level of understanding of the regulatory requirements within
Presentation of detailed findings in report format
Presentation of detailed findings in report format

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A UK-crypto asset subsidiary of a Nasdaq-listed firm in the U.S. has a requirement to review their anti-money laundering (AML) policy framework and idetify possible gaps in line with FCA requirements.

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