In an increasingly complex global landscape, managing financial crime risk requires deep subject matter expertise and strategic foresight. Our Financial Crime Risk Intelligence team brings both—working alongside businesses, governments, and NGOs around the world to navigate evolving threats and regulatory demands.
Whether you're expanding into new markets, confronting sanctions exposure, or addressing risks such as environmental crime or human trafficking, we deliver clear, actionable insight grounded in real-world experience—across a broad range of risks.
We specialise in complex, strategic projects where financial crime risks are new, emerging, or poorly understood. Our experts help you assess and mitigate exposure, empowering your organisation to make informed, confident decisions.
Each engagement is bespoke, designed specifically for your organisation’s unique risk profile and needs.
Understanding the financial crime risks associated with specific jurisdictions and sectors is critical to informed decision-making; and our team of experts can provide you with a detailed view of the financial crime risk landscape in any country or industry. Through in-depth reports and expert briefings, we deliver insights that are practical, timely, grounded in data and aligned with your specific strategic needs—whether for your senior management, investment committee, or risk team.
We support clients who are
Assessing whether to enter or invest in a new market or sector.
Seeking to stay ahead of developments in jurisdictions where they already operate.
Ensuring their Financial Crime Country Risk assessments align with the Wolfsberg Group’s principles.
Get a glimpse of our capabilities through our series of short Country Risk Digest available to buy and download here. We deliver longer, bespoke reports and associated executive briefings upon commission.
Since 2022, we've partnered with Jersey Finance to deliver a series of financial crime country risk roundtables for its member firms. These events help Jersey’s financial services industry assess risk when engaging with key international markets. Each roundtable brings together in-country experts, alongside representatives from the Jersey Government and Financial Intelligence Unit, to share timely, practical insights. So far, we’ve hosted over a dozen sessions - covering jurisdictions such as South Africa, the USA, UK, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, and more.
Our horizon scanning reports are far removed from generic updates-empowering compliance, legal, risk, policy, and strategy teams with the insights they need to stay ahead.
Through bespoke reports, we guide our clients through complex and shifting financial crime regulatory environments. Our targeted analysis is tailored to your industry, region, and strategic priorities, giving you the foresight to act with confidence.
Why Our Clients Choose Us
Tailored scanning – aligned to your sector, jurisdictions, and regulatory focus areas.
Commissionable research – built for your needs; never recycled or repurposed.
Expert consulting – delivered by a team with deep financial crime regulatory and policy expertise.
When Clients Typically Engage Us
Regulatory change – clarity on specific new legislation or evolving rules that impact operations or strategy.
Product launches – early identification of compliance risks tied to new offerings.
Executive briefings – forward-looking risk and regulatory intelligence for leadership.
Investment activity – regulatory foresight during investment due diligence.
Proactive risk planning – early warning on emerging threats to build resilience.
Staying ahead of financial crime risk requires awareness of emerging threats before they escalate. Our team continuously monitors global trends, regulatory shifts, and evolving criminal tactics to help you anticipate and address risk proactively.
We work closely with you to identify the specific threat landscape you face, from money laundering, fraud, or bribery and corruption to environmental crime, human trafficking and sanctions evasion. Our assessments draw on intelligence-led research, strategic analysis, and practical insight to deliver a clear picture of your exposure—and how it can be managed.
Since 2021, we’ve partnered with Bottomline to delivery industry insights designed for banking executives, compliance officers, fraud prevention specialists, and anyone seeking to strengthen their organisation's anti-fraud capabilities.
Our most recent 2025 Fraud Trends White Paper, written for Bottomline, examines the most pressing fraud threats affecting today’s commercial banking sector. These research projects are grounded in comprehensive industry surveys and expert consultations, providing a robust view of emerging fraud threats and best practices. You can commission similar bespoke research tailored to your organisation’s specific needs.
Since 2023, we’ve partnered with WWF-UK on a multi-stage programme to support the financial sector in addressing environmental crime. Together, we’ve developed a range of free resources to help financial institutions better understand, map, and reduce their risk exposure.
The key outcome of this work is The Environmental Crimes Financial Toolkit. It’s freely available here, regularly updated by our team of expert researchers, and widely praised by law enforcement, policymakers, and NGOs around the world.
The toolkit includes in-depth research on environmental crimes—such as illicit mining, the illegal wildlife trade, deforestation, and land conversion—and their links to a wide range of financial crimes. It also features an interactive digital risk assessment tool, which allows users to assess their exposure to environmental and human rights risks across more than 65 countries, broken down by commodity and supply chain stage.
In addition, the toolkit offers a rich collection of online resources. These include over 500 case studies, red flags and typologies, insights from global experts, and guidance on building an effective strategic response.
