Financial crime and AML advisory

Businesses around the world face a growing number of reputation-damaging risks, from being victimized by fraud and theft of assets to being embroiled in complex litigation or business disputes or accused of financial mismanagement or malfeasance.

Our professionals provide specialized services to help you protect your reputation, including financial due diligence, fraud detection and prevention training, anti-money laundering assessments, background checks, and business partner surveys.

Deloitte’s AML professionals have extensive experience delivering tailored resourcing solutions that reduce costs and meet the specific needs of your business. Our alternative delivery models that blend teams of Deloitte subject matter experts, contractors and internal resources have been successfully implemented to manage and conduct large scale regulatory document reviews and due diligence projects with a legal or compliance context. Our review team consists of qualified Canadian lawyers who are experienced in handling sensitive, confidential and time-critical projects of all sizes in both English and French.

Achieving compliance with the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA), Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and similar anti-corruption legislative requirements has become an increasing concern for organizations that operate globally, as the number of FCPA-related enforcement actions and the size of penalties have increased dramatically in recent years.

We can assist you with anti-corruption enforcement actions

Financial due diligence for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) should include procedures that specifically seek red flags indicating potential corruption. We provide a full range of seamless M&A compliance and integrity services throughout the M&A life cycle, on a global scale as required, to help you avoid corruption and other financial crime-related issues that could jeopardize your reputation or the transaction.

The Business Intelligence Services practice comprises investigators and intelligence specialists with extensive experience in due diligence, litigation support, fraud and/or other investigations, who can gather background information and business intelligence virtually anywhere in the world.

Global cooperation amongst enforcement agencies and regulators has never been greater, increasing the scrutiny that corporate officers and directors are under. Furthermore, the financial penalties through financial crime losses, the conduct of internal investigations, fines, class action lawsuits, and other litigation are climbing.

Focusing on the entire financial crime lifecycle (compliance, prevention, detection, investigation, remediation, testing, and monitoring), we draw on our capabilities from a number of our practices to deliver end-to-end service to you in:

• Governance and strategy
• Operations and controls
• Investigations and remediation
• Technology and analytics

Our crisis management initiative combines different aspects of response from across functions to serve you quickly when you need it most.

The four pillars of our forensic crisis management initiative are:

• Rapid response
• 24/7 situational monitoring
• Simulation and war-gaming
• Crisis communications and public relations