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Compliance Risk Management Strategies in Belgium: Navigating the Complex Regulatory Landscape
As the regulatory environment continues to evolve in Belgium, financial institutions must stay ahead of the curve to avoid increasing reputation risk, liability risk, and potential penalties. Our experts at KPMG Belgium provide comprehensive compliance risk management strategies to help organizations navigate this complex landscape.
Integrated Risk Management Frameworks: A Pragmatic Approach
In today’s ever-changing regulatory environment, a single, holistic framework is essential for managing all risks in a pragmatic way. Our teams review existing frameworks and strive to consolidate them into a cohesive whole, encompassing all risks in a manner that minimizes inefficiencies.
Key Benefits
- Consolidation of multiple risk management frameworks
- Simplified risk management process
- Improved efficiency and reduced costs
Financial Instruments Valuation and Accounting: Expert Guidance
The valuation of financial instruments remains an ongoing challenge for many organizations. Our experts collaborate with our German Competence Center iRadar to provide services across various sectors, including public sector, corporates, banks, insurance companies, and more. We help organizations better understand the effects of accounting standards like IFRS 9 and manage them in an optimal way.
Services
- Valuation of financial instruments
- Accounting standard implementation (IFRS 9)
- Financial instrument management
Regulatory Reporting: Accuracy, Efficiency, and Future-Proofing
With demanding regulatory expectations for accurate reporting, our experts help organizations make their reports efficient and future-proof. We address long-standing challenges such as manual reconciliations, data integrity issues, systems limitations, analytical challenges, resource constraints, and governance weaknesses.
Key Benefits
- Improved accuracy of regulatory reports
- Increased efficiency in report preparation
- Future-proofing against changing regulatory requirements
Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP): Expert Support
Our team assists financial institutions in addressing the identified issues set by supervisors during the SREP decision. We provide expert guidance to help organizations “correct” these issues within a specific timeframe.
Services
- Identification of SREP issues
- Development of corrective action plans
- Implementation and monitoring of corrective actions
ESG Integration: A Focus Area for Regulators
As ESG becomes an increasingly important aspect of risk management, our teams support organizations in conducting gap assessments against regulatory requirements and leading practices. We guide clients in defining and implementing robust risk management frameworks, including governance structures, risk appetites, and measurement approaches to monitor exposure to these risks.
Key Benefits
- Improved ESG risk management
- Enhanced reputation and brand value
- Increased investor confidence
Recovery and Resolution Planning: Expert Guidance
Our experts help financial institutions improve their governance, capital structure, and recovery plans through comprehensive support services. We can act as independent valuators, assist with upgrading the management information system, and benchmark preparedness for operational continuity.
Services
- Recovery plan development
- Independent valuation of financial institutions
- Management information system upgrades
Regulatory Change and Compliance: Pragmatic Solutions
In a rapidly changing regulatory environment, organizations must invest in compliance to avoid increasing reputation risk, liability risk, and potential penalties. Our team provides comprehensive support services, including regulatory rule analysis, horizon scanning, inventory management processes, and tracking regulation lifecycles.
Key Benefits
- Improved regulatory compliance
- Enhanced reputation and brand value
- Reduced risk of non-compliance
Implementation/Remediation: Designing and Implementing Compliance Solutions
Our experts assist organizations in designing and implementing revised compliance policies, procedures, processes, and controls. We provide project and program management, internal and external stakeholder management, implementation of compliance metrics and reporting, and assurance/attestations.
Key Benefits
- Improved compliance posture
- Enhanced reputation and brand value
- Reduced risk of non-compliance