Risk and Regulatory Management for Financial Services

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Related Client Successes

• Major North American Bank: Risk and Regulatory Management
  A novel, technically advanced solution to address Basel II requirements.
  
  
• Leading UK Financial Services Group: Risk and Regulatory Management
  Meeting risk and regulatory requirements for cross-border payments in five months.
  
  
• North America-based Global Investment Bank: Risk and Regulatory Management
  Accenture created an automated web-based system for compliance processes.

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Accenture Risk Management transforms the risk function from a series of isolated transactions to an integrated, strategic endeavor that encompasses investment, finance and operational decision making. With Accenture’s help, companies can employ risk management as a competitive differentiator to create value while also protecting the interests of shareholders and other key stakeholders in a cost-effective manner.

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• Managing Risk in Extraordinary Times: Strategy for High Performance.

Accenture’s risk and regulatory services offers a wide spectrum of services that help banks comply with regulations, protect shareholder value and leverage risk as a competitive differentiator.

• Compliance Efficiency: Accenture supports compliance programs with a combination of methods, process templates, pre-configured data models and leading practices ranging from operating model definition to large-scale solution delivery.
  
  
• Risk Governance and Control Enhancement: We have cross-industry experience in helping clients define and implement broad risk governance frameworks that cover both financial and non-financial risk management. We also provide diagnostics and tools to target and improve poor data quality, a critical challenge facing financial services firms.
  
  
• Risk/Reward and Efficiency Optimization: Optimizing the balance between risk and reward links risk and profitability objectives to improve strategic capital decisions and increase shareholder returns. Our approach embeds risk/reward optimization into the business, as well as the transaction and portfolio management processes, in order to meet long-term business goals.  

Related Client Successes

• Major North American Bank: Risk and Regulatory Management
  We crafted a novel, technically advanced solution to address Basel II requirements.
  
  
• Leading UK Financial Services Group: Risk and Regulatory Management
  In five months, we helped the client address risk and regulatory requirements for cross-border payments.
  
  
• North America-based Global Investment Bank: Risk and Regulatory Management
  Accenture created an automated Web-based system for compliance processes.