Banking

Tackle cyber risks across your organisation

Growing reliance on digital systems means banks face an increased need to focus on business operations, data security and compliance. Digital crime and cyber-attacks are on the rise around the world, meaning organisations need enhanced IT and cyber capabilities to tackle these threats. 

To ensure your organisation thrives in this challenging environment, we provide bespoke, practical solutions, and support you in assessing the risk, managing incidents and building defences.

Meet CSRD obligations with our framework 

To stay ahead of the competition, you need a strong sustainability agenda and detailed environmental, social and governance (ESG) benchmarks. 

Our experts provide a thorough assessment of ESG disclosures and reporting processes. Using our Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) Comply Framework, we review your structures, identify gaps and develop an implementation roadmap to enable your organization to achieve regulatory compliance.

Ensure excellence in audit processes

We use internal auditors and subject matter expert support to deliver our high-quality services across industries. We’re a leading provider of internal audit services to firms in Ireland, the US, UK, France, the Netherlands, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.

Our internal audit team includes chartered accountants (ACA, CAI), certified internal auditors (IIA), certified information security auditors (ISACA) and certified anti-money laundering specialists (ACAMS).

Prepare for the new regulations

In January 2025, the Basel III banking framework comes into force. The EBA is to issue further guidelines clarifying how to implement the rules. To prepare, you need to interpret the new rules, assess their impact, address new data and tech needs and adjust business strategies.

Our regulatory and risk advisory team in Dublin works with the ECB and other EU central banks, and our experienced project teams help you perform assessments and plan for regulatory change.

Our global client relationships and Grant Thornton’s international network of member firms support us in managing cross-border projects that require knowledge of EU standards and support systems in the relevant jurisdictions.

Keep up with regulatory requirements

Since the global financial crisis, credit institutions have been subject to stringent regulatory reporting and regulatory data remediation requirements. These include preparing Pillar 3 disclosures, common reporting standards (COREP) and financial reporting (FINREP) reports, along with annual reports.

Our team of international regulatory experts deliver regulatory reporting model builds, process documentation and strategic advice. When it comes to regulatory reporting, they handle controls development and review, risk management programme (RMP) remediation and regulatory interpretation. They also offer common reporting framework reviews and subject matter expert advice.

Protect your organisation with sustainable solutions

Money laundering and financial crime are on the rise globally, harming societies and putting organisations at risk. Our experts can help you reduce the risks related to money laundering, terrorist financing and economic sanctions.

We deliver auditable, sustainable FCC solutions, including AML and know your customer (KYC) programmes, to global financial institutions.

Build operational resilience

Operational resilience is a core focus of regulatory bodies, meaning companies need to be able to show evidence they have robust practices in place to identify, mitigate and react to threats. In the EU, companies must comply with the Digital Operations Resilience Act (DORA) by January 2025.

Our specialists can help you build operational resilience, ensuring your organisation’s compliance across the five pillars of DORA.

Build on our expert insights

Our quantitative risk team works with Europe's largest financial institutions and regulatory bodies to provide innovative and bespoke model development, model validation, complex analytics and valuations services.

We give strategic advisory and end-to-end delivery services across data analytics, credit and market risk quantification and management, stress testing and forecasting, climate and environmental risk and IT and cyber.

Our team brings expert knowledge of regulatory requirements, industry best practice and innovative model development. Our toolkits accelerate all stages of model development – from data preparation to model build, testing and documentation – allowing you to focus less on execution and more on delivering insights.