Regulatory compliance

Industry leaders in regulatory compliance

Since the financial crisis of 2007/8, new regulations, laws and directives are being introduced throughout the world with the aim of fostering a greater degree of transparency, fairness and professionalism within the financial industry. The formidable task of complying with these far-reaching initiatives – while maintaining the profitability of affected business lines – is one of the greatest challenges facing businesses today.

GFT’s legal, regulatory and compliance practice works alongside the world’s leading financial institutions to develop and implement strategic, proactive and sustainable compliance solutions with the flexibility to accommodate future demands. Our unique approach follows proven methodologies that not only ensure compliance with the latest regulations, but also go the extra mile and capitalise on the opportunities presented by each engagement. For us, this means partnering with our clients to grow revenue, improve efficiency, reduce costs and remove complexity.

The New Normal

Long regulatory change cycle

The financial services industry is at the beginning of a long regulatory change cycle marked by three key characteristics: it is structural, global and well coordinated.

Embrace change

Banks and other firms must be compliant

In short, banks and investment service providers should ensure that regulatory change management becomes standard business practice. Failing to do so will result in lost opportunities and, potentially, hefty fines.

Forward-looking

Firms need to be forward-looking

Reactive approaches don’t work. Being proactive saves time, helping firms avoid costly mistakes with streamlined regulatory change processes matched to business and strategic needs. This also ensures opportunities and threats are detected early.

We help our clients understand what the impact of regulatory change is and then go on to implement the correct solution.”

Andrew Rossiter Head of Technology Services

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Specialist implementation

Successful track record

Implementation initiatives require cross-functional expertise in business, regulatory and IT domains.
Focussing purely on regulatory or technical aspects can result in technically correct results, but they may also be far from optimal.

Vast experience

Technical and strategic

Our technology and business consulting unit offers a team of senior professionals with cross-functional experience in the business, regulatory and IT domains, each with their own set of industry-specific proprietary methodologies and solutions.

Global knowledge