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    Third-Party Risk Management

    We help you prevent, detect, and safeguard risks with our corporate intelligence solutions.

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    Increasing globalization and language barriers create ongoing challenges for mitigating third-party risks, be they commercial, reputational, legal, or regulatory. Whether you would like to obtain information quickly and discreetly on future business relationships or verify employee background information, insights into your third parties are essential for regulatory compliance. Furthermore, it enhances your ability to identify, plan, negotiate and execute strategic undertakings.

    Our clients come from all industries, including financial services, industrial products, retail, healthcare & life sciences, energy & natural resources, transportation, building, construction & real estate, government, and non-for-profits.

    Our experienced, forensic-minded people analyze the facts and prepare a concise and comprehensive report to guide your decision-making process. KPMG supports you mitigate potential risks by providing you with the information you need to make informed decisions, reduce compliance risk and enhance your corporate business intelligence.

    We are supported by over 40 accredited Forensic practices worldwide, giving us leverage if the complexity and nature of a case requires a multidisciplinary, extraterritorial approach.

    Bob Dillen
    Bob Dillen

    Partner, Head of Forensic

    KPMG Switzerland

    Cédric Biedermann
    Cédric Biedermann

    Director, Forensic Western Switzerland

    KPMG Switzerland

    Why KPMG services?

    1. Full Enhanced Due Diligence Reports

      Complete Full Enhanced Due Diligence Reports within 2-6 business days with clear and consistent reporting of key risk issues and risk mitigation needs.

    1. Pre-Employment Screening Checks

      Technology-enabled pre-employment screening and customized vetting process with adaptable tools to meet your unique needs.

    1. Corporate Intelligence Investigations

      Gain deeper insights into the background of third parties, including asset tracing to identify and locate hidden, misappropriated, or stolen assets, or understand a counterparty’s asset profile.

    1. Social Media Investigation

      Enhance your understanding of internal and external influences on business operations with timely and appropriate assistance in fact-finding social investigations.

    Understanding client struggles & addressing key pain points

    Manage third-party relationships

    Gain valuable insights into who you are dealing with through Full Enhanced Due Diligence reports, whether it’s prospective clients, suppliers, new members of the board, financial intermediaries, or sales representatives.

    Reduce risk and potential damage related to third parties

    Understand the profile of third parties (individual or company). What background? Any litigation and adverse press media on former and current business interests? On sanctions or other high-risk lists?

    Hire the right people for the right positions

    Companies do not always perform high-quality background checks. It is key to ensure that candidates fit the organization. Having a dishonest current or future employee can lead to financial loss and reputational damage for your company in the form of insider threats, fraud, or embezzlement.

    Navigating success: our proven approach

    The involvement of KPMG Forensic will help your organization to guarantee independence and minimize potential conflicts of interest with the preparation of enhanced due diligence reports, reporting key risks and indications of risk factors, pre-employment screening and tailor-made vetting process.

    1. Full Enhanced Due Diligence Reports

      Combine powerful, proprietary search technology with forensic-human analysis to obtain information on third parties’ backgrounds, adverse press and sanctions. Receive concise and understandable reports that highlight key issues and provide clear risk indicators.

    2. Pre-Employment Screening

      KPMG has developed pre-employment screening tools to prevent and detect the risk of insider threats, fraud or embezzlement early. This ensures that candidates fit your organization and protects it by knowing whom you’re entrusting with your clients’ database or industrial know-how.

    3. Corporate Intelligence (CI) Investigations

      Provide deeper, more comprehensive insights into third parties’ backgrounds. This tailorable service covers discreet source inquiries, research in local registries or asset tracing. Recommended for third parties with the most business impact such as C-level candidates, major vendors, or high-risk clients.

    4. Social Media Investigation

      Social media play such an important role in our lives today that it is impossible to build a profile of a third party without carefully researching all applicable platforms. KPMG can provide you with the most advanced set of tools to retrieve, store, and analyze the relevant data that can be found about the individual or organization of interest. 

    Find an ally in managing third party risks: submit your interests & open questions

    We look forward to your requests and being your trusted partner in third party risk management. We are happy to answer open questions you may have.

    Meet our experts

    Bob Dillen
    Bob Dillen

    Partner, Head of Forensic

    KPMG Switzerland

    Cédric Biedermann
    Cédric Biedermann

    Director, Forensic Western Switzerland

    KPMG Switzerland