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    Governance Risk For Banks
    Joint Research with Fitch Ratings

    The co-authored report titled “Governance Risk for Banks: Drawing on Experience and External Expertise to Assess Financial Crime Risk” discusses how an entity’s vulnerability to these risks can be assessed and when a credit rating agency might act on signals of non-financial risks.

    To read the full report, please fill out the brief form below.

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    COVID-19
    How to Set Up Your Compliance Function During Crisis

    COVID-19’s rise has created significant shocks to the global financial and economic landscape. On April 9, 2020, Sigma brought together leading industry experts to discuss COVID-19’s impact on compliance and ways to navigate risk during times of crisis.

    To read the full report, please fill out the brief form below.

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    The End of Intuition
    The Value of Independent Validation

    Sigma asked executives at asset management firms and large financial institutions how they make investment decisions in high-risk, high-growth emerging and frontier markets. Specifically, we asked the survey universe what data points matter the most and the value that novel governance and financial crime risk ratings would have in helping enhance conviction.

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    Take the Drama Out of Periodic Reviews
    With Perpetual Relationship Monitoring

    The traditional approach to client reviews for KYC and AML purposes has been to invest in teams of people who can keep up with ongoing obligations and changes in regulation. However, this drives up the overall cost of compliance and is unsustainable, particularly in times of cost-cutting environments like the one we are in now.

    To read the full report, please fill out the brief form below.