The business environment constantly faces new compliance risks, challenging the capacity of compliance functions to effectively identify, assess and mitigate risks related to new regulations or procedures. In this context, certain compliance milestones must be strengthened and enhanced. Here’s how SmartComply can help:
COMPLIANCE FRAMEWORK
Build an extensive compliance risk catalogue.
Structure the compliance framework to align regulatory requirements, with compliance risks and internal controls.
Design and evaluate prioritized compliance risk exposures.
Set up a methodology to assess inherent and residual risk exposure enabling for the elaboration of a risk-based compliance monitoring program.
Align risks, controls, and efforts.
Design a compliance risk assessment and monitoring program and prioritize control execution in light of compliance risk assessment results.
ENHANCE SCOPE AND REPORTING
Ensure complete documentation of the compliance function’s monitoring scope.
Build a compliance risk catalogue addressing the financial industry participant’s entire range of activities.
Address key results and findings.
Report on compliance risk exposure and the execution of the compliance monitoring program to top management.
Manage several group entities.
Build up aggregation functionalities to maintain a consolidated view for group oversight and follow-up.
DRIVE EFFECTIVENESS AND REVEAL DEFICIENCIES
Capture and embed operational events and promptly and adjust compliance risk assessment accordingly.
Assess the impact of these events on the compliance risk profile.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the internal control framework in mitigating identified compliance risks.
Collect, monitor, and follow-up on internal control deficiencies.
Provide a framework allowing for the management of issued compliance recommendations.
Opens in new window
Opens in new window
SmartComply
Our digital compliance solution
A digital solution, hosted in a secure environment and remotely accessible, allows clients (particularly compliance and/or risk control functions) to better track their risk profile (primarily compliance and regulatory risks) and monitoring program, as well as internal control deficiencies. It also offers automated reporting and aggregation capacities, facilitating communication with different stakeholders (i.e., management body).
The compliance function needs to effectively manage its compliance risk exposures in a continuously evolving regulatory landscape by setting up an adequate assessment framework and risk-based monitoring program through an organized channel.
The SmartComply solution is embedded in DBoard which is a securitized environment using specific security features and authentication mechanisms. Users can connect to the application via a browser on multiple devices (including computers, tablets, smartphones etc.). The user must log in to DBoard to access the app, ensuring a stringent security layer.