In today's financial markets, information is the key to success.

To deliver returns in today's markets, precise, timely and relevant information is the key to success.  Whatever your information needs - securing the inside track on a hostile bidder, undertaking due diligence on a potential investment, or tracing the source of a potential client's funds - Control Risks can help you.

Control Risks has extensive experience working for the world's premier financial institutions.  Our clients include investment banks, fund managers, private equity firms and hedge funds.

We have in-depth knowledge of the financial services sector, and bring to bear both industry understanding and global regional experience.  Our service is focused not only on enhancing the value of their investments and services.

Control Risks provides:

• Investment due diligence - Control Risks examines the business interests, commercial track records and reputation of potential business partners helping ensure you have the critical, deal-related intelligence and operational knowledge to secure the maximum returns.
• Fund intelligence - providing company insight, intense management profiling, and specific intelligence to enable alternative and traditional fund managers to make informed and accurate decisions.
• Hostile takeover defence - In a hostile takeover, Control Risks analyses the intentions, vulnerabilities and tactics of the predator, providing the intelligence to mount a successful defence.
• Political and security risk analysis - we analyse political, security and governance issues, both regional and national, that might affect an entrant's operations.  We also advise on cultural sensitivities when establishing relationships with local political and commercial entities, and analyse transaction-related risks.
• Know Your Customer consultancy - in line with local regulations, Control Risks offers a series of consultancy services to assist with the design and implementation of KYC compliance programmes to check the veracity of potential large individual investors, as well as providing an outsourced service to carry out KYC compliance checks.
• Anti-money laundering services - we review existing internal money-laundering policies and procedures.  We evaluate customer identification procedures, record-keeping methods and the ways in which suspicious transactions are identified.  We produce compliance procedure manuals and train staff.
• Screening - we can provide various levels of screens to cover senior level hires and more routine screening of new employees, including reference, credit and bankruptcy checks.
• Fraud awareness and investigation - we offer a range of fraud consultancy services to assist with the prevention of fraud through whistleblowing and fraud awareness training programmes.  We also carry out complex fraud and asset tracing investigations on behalf of our clients.
• Travel and personal security - In the course of business your staff may travel to some unfamiliar places.  Our services are designed to make sure employees and their dependants feel as safe and informed as possible.
• Security management - we assist our clients to design, implement and review the security of their offices and banking facilities.