Financial Crime World

Switzerland’s Financial Crime Investigation Methods: A Comprehensive Approach to Combat Financial Crimes

In today’s increasingly complex and interconnected financial landscape, financial institutions in Switzerland are facing growing challenges in combating financial crimes such as money laundering, sanctions violations, bribery, corruption, fraud, and cross-border taxation.

A Unique Approach to Combating Financial Crimes

Deloitte’s Financial Crime & Forensic Analytics team has developed a unique approach to help clients combat these financial crimes effectively. By combining industry experience, subject matter expertise, and technology support, our expert-led and technology-driven team offers innovative solutions to regulatory and financial crime problems.

Our Expertise

  • Reviewing, remediating, and investigating regulatory or other financial crime-driven topics
  • Determining impact and exposure for any financial crime event
  • Offering secure data centers in Switzerland for hosting sensitive data

Financial Crime Investigations: A Proven Methodology

Our approach to financial crime investigations includes:

  • Assessment of current state and gap analysis against regulatory requirements
  • Financial crime prevention strategy development
  • Due diligence and remediation
  • Lookbacks and continual improvements
  • Market behavior misconduct investigations

Technology-Driven Delivery Platform

We offer a proven end-to-end delivery platform that supports clients in successfully responding to a wide range of financial crime matters. Our framework comes equipped with leading-edge investigation tools, techniques, and reporting templates that are selected and tailored to the specific needs of each client.

Expert Advice and Support

We have helped our clients navigate complex financial crime investigations by providing expert advice and support. For example, we worked with a client who was required to reclassify and repaper its customer accounts with exposure to the shipping industry. We established remediation teams in Switzerland, the Bahamas, and Singapore to prioritize remediation efforts and carry out gap analysis and transaction and AML-alert review.

Meet Our Experts

If you have a similar issue that requires expert advice and support, please do not hesitate to contact one of our experts below:

  • Sven Probst: Lead Partner Forensic
  • Nic Carrington: Partner
  • Philipp Lüttmann: Partner
  • Uday Mehta: Partner leading the Financial Crime and Forensic Analytics team within the Forensic group in Zurich, Switzerland.