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Export Controls and Dual-Use Goods
Export controls extend well beyond obvious military hardware — dual-use goods and technology, items with both civilian and potentially military applications, are subject to controls that trade,...
Sanctions Risk in Payments and Trade Finance
Sanctions evasion techniques in payments and trade finance are often deliberately designed to look ordinary — a genuinely effective review looks past the surface of a transaction to the parties,...
Sanctions Screening and Alert Resolution
Sanctions screening systems generate far more alerts than genuine matches, and the skill of alert resolution lies in distinguishing a false positive from a genuine concern quickly and consistently...
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Sanctions Compliance Foundations
Sanctions breaches carry some of the most severe penalties in financial services, and a sanctions programme only works if every relevant member of staff understands their own part in it —...
Control Testing, Issues and Remediation
Control testing that's designed to pass rather than to genuinely reveal weakness provides false comfort — good testing is deliberately designed to find failure, and genuine remediation closes...
Model Risk Management Foundations
Models — from simple spreadsheets to complex statistical tools — increasingly drive important decisions across financial services, and a model that's poorly understood, unvalidated, or used beyond...
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Data Quality and Regulatory Reporting Controls
Poor-quality data can quietly undermine everything built on top of it — from internal management decisions to regulatory submissions — which makes data quality controls a foundational, if often...
Third-Party Operational Resilience
A firm's operational resilience is only as strong as its weakest critical third party — outsourcing a function doesn't outsource the responsibility for ensuring it keeps running, which makes...
Change Risk and Safe Implementation
Change — whether a new product, a system update, or a process redesign — is one of the moments when operational and conduct risk is most likely to be introduced, which is why safe implementation...
Incident Management, Escalation and Reporting
How quickly and accurately an operational incident is detected, classified and escalated often matters as much as the incident itself — a well-handled moderate incident causes far less harm than a...
Risk and Control Self-Assessment
A risk and control self-assessment is only as valuable as the honesty and rigour behind it — a self-assessment completed as a compliance exercise, rather than a genuine evaluation, gives a false...
Operational Risk and the Control Lifecycle
Controls exist to manage risk, but a control that's never tested, poorly designed, or has no clear owner offers little real protection — understanding the full control lifecycle is what turns a...
Business Continuity and Crisis Response
A business continuity plan that only exists as a document nobody has practised is of limited value in a genuine crisis — real continuity capability comes from clear roles, tested invocation...