Advisory & Consulting Services
Anti-financial crime advisory – Protect, relieve, and strengthen.
Advisory & operational support for robust AFC Compliance
Financial crime is evolving rapidly, while regulatory requirements are becoming increasingly complex. Companies face the challenge of ensuring compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF), Know Your Customer (KYC), Fraud Detection, and Anti-Bribery & Corruption—not just legally, but also efficiently and effectively.
As a think tank and specialist in Anti-Financial Crime, we support regulated industries with tailored advisory services and proven solutions. Our consultants have previously worked as Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs), auditors, risk and compliance experts, and IT service managers in banks, financial institutions, and corporations. We understand your challenges firsthand and speak your language.
Our approach combines in-depth expertise with hands-on experience, enabling us to support organizations of all sizes—from strategic advisory to operational implementation.
Experience that matters.
Over
200 years
of combined advisory experience
… from more than
1,300 projects
with clients worldwide
Regulatory expertise from
100+ countries
on five continents
Our Advisory & Consulting Services
We help you navigate regulatory requirements, develop efficient policies, and optimize your control mechanisms.
- Regulatory interaction & change management
- Development & implementation of policies and procedures
- Management of obligations & compliance with regulatory requirements
- Assessments of control effectiveness and control efficiency
We identify, analyse, and assess financial crime risks, developing tailored mitigation strategies.
- Creation or update of risk assessments
- Risk impact analyses
- Risk mitigation reviews
- Assessments of the effectiveness and adequacy of existing controls
Our audit and review services help you evaluate the effectiveness of your AFC strategies and systems, ensuring continuous improvement.
- Effectiveness & efficiency checks
- System health checks
- Digital backtesting procedures
- Fine-tuning and optimisation of existing systems
- Forensic analysis to identify vulnerabilities
- Forensic investigations (e.g. criminal, conflict of interest)
We support you in analyzing, selecting, and implementing the right technologies for your compliance strategy.
- Compliance maturity analysis
- IT portfolio analyses and management
- Technology impact analysis
- System benchmarking & RfI/RfP support
- Implementation & migration support
- Data management & structuring for viable compliance
We ensure the smooth operation and continuous optimisation of your AFC and compliance systems.
- 2nd-Level support services
- Data quality checks & continuous improvement
- List data enhancement & update services
- Private cloud managed services for maximum security
- Training & education for your team and managers
What our clients say
Revision Zentralbereich - DekaBank
We chose msg Rethink Compliance as an independent auditor for the quality control of our IT systems in accordance with AuA BT Section 6. We were very impressed by the professional and technical expertise of the consultants, their diligence and flexibility in implementation. Happy to choose them again!
Robin Richter - Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe Privatbank
Thank you very much for the excellent support from the msg Rethink Compliance project team. We have never been so satisfied with project support in our FICO® history.
Rut Gunnarsdóttir - Islandsbanki
The work with msg has without doubt been a huge improvement and one of the single most beneficial project on our AML systems since the implementation in 2019. The quality of the work and the great collaboration and communication has been impeccable and we look forward of future projects together.