Financial Crime Services

Shaping the future of technology-enabled regulatory compliance services

In an ever-changing, complex regulatory environment, financial institutions are more and more often looking for a trusted business partner, who will take them through the transformation journey and take care of a wide range of their day-to-day operations.

Therefore, we are ready to improve, automate and ultimately take the responsibility for the execution of a wide range of our clients’ anti-crime related processes.

With us, compliance will no longer be just a budget line, but a game changer, boosting topline, allowing our clients to free-up time and resources to focus on core business.

PwC Financial Crime Services provides a vast range of Managed Services, addressing all regulatory requirements by leveraging the best of our industry knowledge, technology expertise and operational experience. We deliver complex services, from transformation support, through state-of-the-art technology solutions, to highly automated, efficient operational delivery. 

Our Managed Services are supported by highly automated technology solutions, built based on a practical operational and regulatory experience.

We support the transformation of our clients' organizations by advising in regulatory, operational strategy and project management areas. 

Our delivery model is based on a dedicated operational team, trained and structured to easily scale up and down, aligning to the changing demands and to effectively run complex operational processes.

Managed Services

Based on our experience in designing and running large-scale operational projects, we have developed a dedicated approach to our Financial Crime Managed Services.

Subject matter Expertise

Proven methodologies in specific financial crime areas, like Know Your Customer (KYC), Transaction Monitoring (TM).

To fit particular client requirements, multiple dimensions of a Managed Services model are assessed each time independently and flexibly tailored to the certain needs. 

Our approach

We provide you with flexible and scalable solutions that can be deployed quickly to meet your burst capacity or business as usual requirements. We can help you plan and respond to the changing resource demand driven by the strategy or the peaks and through the nature of the work.

Across our people, process and technology, we provide effective solutions that address your needs in a cost efficient manner, allowing your team to focus on board priorities and opportunities.

We can manage everything from one place. You will not need multiple contractors for different parts of the project. Our processes are ISO-certified, and developed with our industry-leading expertise. Your project is mapped out and managed for consistent results, high quality, and to keep things on track to make sure we help you deliver.

AML Managed Services scope of offering:

  • Know Your Customer (KYC) processes – onboarding, regular reviews, event driven reviews
  • Transaction Monitoring alerts investigation
  • Client Exits
  • Screening as a Service (negative news, PEP, sanctions)
  • Know Your Vendor (KYV) / Third Party Risk Management
  • Quality Check (QC) & Quality Assurance (QA) as a Service
  • Subject Matter Expertise (SME) as a Service

Technology Solutions

Digital Managed Services is an end-to-end, highly automated platform dedicated for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) process management, including Know Your Customer (KYC) and Transaction Monitoring (TM). It is tailored to support the delivery of our managed services, as well as serve as an end-to-end solution for financial crime processes.

 

Key principles:

  • Data driven
  • Highly configurable
  • Highly automated
  • User friendly
  • Easy deployment of additional automation modules

Digital Managed Services implementation models:

SaaS

On premise

Managed service

Digital Managed Services is a platform that integrates a wide range of automations that can be chosen depending on the business needs, switched on and off accordingly, and used as standalone solutions.

Technology Services

Our consulting services are based on a unique mix of regulatory, operational and technology competencies, supplemented by a cooperation with highly specialized technology competency hubs within the global PwC network.

Consulting Services

We support the transformation of our clients' organizations by advising in regulatory, operational strategy and project management areas. We have worked with a number of global and local financial institutions in compliance-related projects (transformations, risk modelling, health checks), as well as in designing and implementing cost-efficient AML operating models and operations.

Scope of expertise

  • Compliance Function Transformation 

  • AML Risk Modelling Approach 

  • Financial Crime Health Check

  • AML Trainings

  • Subject Matter Expertise (SME) as a Service

  • Quality Assurance as a Service

Our capabilities

  • Over 50 regulatory experts with a hands-on experience in Financial Crime controls and regulations, including former MLROs in financial institutions
  • Over 30 global and local financial institutions supported in compliance-related projects (transformations, risk modelling, health checks)
  • In-house developed practical methodologies based on market standards
  • Dedicated AML Risk Modelling tool supporting effective risk management 
  • Global experience with top financial institutions from Australia, Asia, Europe and the US

Scope of expertise

  • Financial Crime Function Transformation

  • Financial Crime Total Operating Model (TOM) Design & Implementation

  • Process Optimization

  • Business Analysis 

  • Research and Benchmarking

Our capabilities

  • Over 30 consultants with a hands-on experience in Financial Crime function transformation supported by Lean Six Sigma (black and green belts) and ACAM certificates
  • Over 30 global and local financial institutions supported in designing and implementing (cost) efficient AML operating models and operations
  • In-house developed technology solutions supporting effective process analysis 
  • Support in the set up and management of large scale AML Remediation and Transformation Programmes
  • Global experience with top financial institutions from Australia, Asia, Europe and the US

Scope of expertise

  • Project Management Office

  • Programme Management Office

  • Portfolio Management Office

Our capabilities

  • Over 20 PM/PMO professionals
  • 37 Project Management-related certificates  (PMP, SAFE, Agile PM, Prince2, P3O, UX-PM, CAPM, PSM, ITIL, Six Sigma, 2 ISTQB)
  • Highly skilled, experienced and multi-lingual professionals with various industry backgrounds accessible on demand
  • Constantly increasing expertise in Agile, Traditional and Hybrid models, built on years of professional experience in different industries
  • End-to-end services adapted and scaled
  • Robust and proven solutions: technology, best practices and tools, ready to be used or customised to specific needs
  • Different delivery models: Managed Solutions, consulting projects, ad hoc tasks

Operational Delivery

Our delivery model is based on a dedicated operational team, trained and structured to easily scale up and down, align to changing demands and effectively run complex operational processes.

Scope of expertise

Transaction Monitoring

  • Backlog / Lookback support

  • Transaction and Client behavior review

  • Suspicious Transaction Report (STR) preparation

  • Quality Control / Quality Assurance as a Service

Know Your Customer

  • Client Onboarding, Periodic Reviews, Remediation and Exit

  • Client Outreach

  • Negative news, Politically Exposed Person (PEP) and Sanctions screening

  • Quality Control / Quality Assurance (QA) as a Service

Other services

  • Vendor Risk Management

  • Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FACTA) / Common Reporting Standard (CRS)

  • Contract Review

Why PwC

  • Global and local risk and regulatory expertise
  • Tested, scalable and adoptable delivery framework
  • Extensive international and local experience
  • Quality embedded in our delivery
  • Efficiency driven by technology

Contact us

Damian Kalinowski

Damian Kalinowski

Managing Partner, Financial Crime Unit, PwC Poland

Tel: +48 519 507 197

Maciej Przybyłowski

Maciej Przybyłowski

Partner, Financial Crime Unit, PwC Poland

Tel: +48 519 504 284

Paweł Jaroszewicz

Paweł Jaroszewicz

Partner, Financial Crime Unit, PwC Poland

Tel: +48 502 184 139

Marta Wójcik

Marta Wójcik

Partner, Financial Crime Unit, PwC Poland

Bartłomiej Styrnik

Bartłomiej Styrnik

Partner, Financial Crime Unit, PwC Poland

Tel: + 48 519 507 298

Tomasz Turski

Tomasz Turski

Partner, Financial Crime Unit, PwC Poland

Tel: + 48 519 507 296

Kornelia Otto

Kornelia Otto

Partner, Financial Crime Unit, PwC Poland

Tel: +48 519 506 950

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