Banking & Financial ServicesGovernance, Risk & Compliance
Evidence collected as the process runs, rather than assembled the week before an audit.
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What is changing in Banking & Financial Services
The pressures we hear from leadership teams in this sector, and the ones the work below answers.
Regulators ask how, not only what
Every automated decision has to be explainable to an examiner, so the audit trail is designed in from the first day.
Cost-to-income under pressure
Back-office volumes grow faster than headcount budgets. Reconciliation and onboarding are where the cost sits.
Onboarding is measured in minutes
Digital challengers set the bar. KYC and document checks are the queue customers notice first.
Legacy cores behind new channels
Modern front ends still meet decades-old systems, and the gap is filled by people re-keying data.
How we help in Governance, Risk & Compliance
The capabilities behind our work here. Open one to see what you get, how to start and the result it moved.
Small, well-bounded services and interfaces rather than another system of record. The best custom build is the one you barely notice in the architecture diagram.
- Start with
- Integration Blueprint3 weeks
Case studies in Governance, Risk & Compliance
Governance, Risk & Compliance13steps in every KYC case workflowKYC and AML Case Management Platform for a UK Compliance PracticeRisk and compliance practice · United Kingdom · KYC and AML reviews for financial-services and other UK organisationsRead the case
Governance, Risk & Compliance€150MIFC facility the platform protectsESG Compliance Intelligence PlatformInvestment group · Europe · €150M sustainability-linked IFC facility with ESG covenantsRead the case- More work like this, filtered for you in the case-study library.See all work in this sector
Microsoft Power Automate
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft 365
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Dynamics 365
Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft TeamsWays to start in Governance, Risk & Compliance
Fixed-scope first steps we have run against exactly this kind of problem.
Start here
Automation Discovery Sprint
Four weeks. We measure what your process costs today and hand back a ranked backlog, including the candidates we tell you not to automate.
- Duration
- 4 weeks
- What you keep
- The backlog and the maps are yours whether or not you continue with us.
Start here
AI Readiness Assessment
Three weeks to separate the processes where AI changes the economics from the ones where it is an expensive way to run a rule.
- Duration
- 3 weeks
- What you keep
- You leave with a defensible position for the board, built or not.
Retainer
Managed Automation Care
Monthly retainer covering monitoring, incident response and the change work that keeps automations alive as the systems underneath them drift.
- Duration
- Rolling, 3-month minimum
- What you keep
- Thirty days' notice, and the runbooks leave with you.
Bars drawn to scale: one block is one week.
Elsewhere in Banking & Financial Services
- Banking OperationsAligning regulatory mandates with processes that can actually be run at volume.
- Customer Lifecycle ManagementOnboarding, servicing and offboarding, without the manual re-keying in between.
- LendingApplication through to servicing, with the decision points documented and reviewable.
- PaymentsException handling and reconciliation: the part of the payments lifecycle that still burns people.
Our view
Evidence collected as the process runs, rather than assembled the week before an audit.
Bring us one process in Governance, Risk & Compliance. We will tell you what it would take.
Not a proposal: a straight read on whether it is worth changing, what it costs and where it usually goes wrong in this sector.