Our experts can provide you with independent compliance and risk management advice.
Providing practical recommendations for improvement to your internal frameworks.
Licencing
    • AFS licence applications and variations
    • Responsible manager AFSL applications
Compliance plan development and monitoring
    • Provide assistance and training in the development and monitoring of your Compliance Program
    • Development and implementation of a compliance plan based on the legislative and regulatory obligations of the entity and in accordance with ISO 37301:2021 compliance management systems, and provide continual effectiveness monitoring
Independent reviews on operational areas
    • Review the effectiveness of operational frameworks (e.g. Conflicts of interest, AFS licensing obligations, provision of financial product advice, business continuity, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF), business processes and policies
    • Independent reviews on any operational area within the financial services industry
Regulatory and legislative advice
    • Provide advice on the impact of regulatory and legislative change on the product issuer and fund operations
    • Provision of up to date and tailored advice on regulatory and legislative requirements
Risk management framework review
    • Review the effectiveness of your Risk Management Framework based on the requirements of ISO 31000:2018 Risk Management and relevant regulatory and legislative obligations, including recommendations for continuous improvement and insights into the latest thinking from the regulators
Risk culture review
    • Risk culture review including a written Report on our findings and recommendations for improvement
Risk management training and facilitation
    • Deliver facilitated training sessions on risk management within the superannuation and financial services environment
    • Risk and control identification workshop

Other services
    • AML/CTF Program development and implementation
    • Incident management and breach management framework development and management
    • Breach, incident and complaint investigations, including recommendations for regulator reporting where significant
    • Liaison with Regulators on Licensees behalf
    • Development and maintenance of policies and procedures
    • Document due diligence checklists and reviews
    • Tailored policy, checklist and template development
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