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Non-Financial Risk services

Blending technical expertise with deep industry insights to modernize and future-proof risk programs.

As risk patterns in the market change, new and emerging problems require innovative solutions where traditional risk management methods and skillsets no longer work. Organizations are progressing toward a more AI and tech-oriented world and expect modernized risk frameworks and solutions. 

The KPMG Non-Financial Risk (NFR) group blends technical expertise with practical, deep industry insights to support our clients in achieving their desired risk outcomes, including regulatory compliance, de-risking, cost reduction, and efficiency, while preparing for the future growth and scalability of their risk programs.

What We Do

01
Technical Risk Design and Optimization

We refresh and reposition core risk methodologies and frameworks with more quantitative and repeatable approaches. Our services include designing, tuning, and implementing standards, methodologies, and frameworks to enhance risk management effectiveness and modernize our clients’ approach to risk.

02
Risk Transformation and Remediation

Our teams support large-scale risk transformation including modernized risk frameworks, target operating models, risk data architecture, data and analytics, and workflow / AI automation. We assist with M&A-driven integration, risk and control convergence, and strategic remediation support across the remediation lifecycle to enhance regulatory confidence.

03
Advanced Analytics & Surveillance

We support the design and rollout of advanced analytic approaches to increase the integrity and precision of risk identification, assessment, and mitigation strategies. This includes uplifting surveillance strategies, enhancing trading models, and deploying machine learning for risk assessment, aggregation, and testing.

04
Operational Resilience

We support the design and implementation of robust Operational Resilience programs. Our teams help define and test risk tolerances, develop risk simulation strategies, and design target operating models to strengthen business continuity.

Our Solutions in Action

Case Study 1: AI-Powered Surveillance Assessment

Case Study 1: AI-Powered Surveillance Assessment

A client needed to understand how its surveillance program compared to peers and assess the quality of its alert closure narratives. Instead of manual sampling, KPMG leveraged automation capabilities to analyze over 1.1 million alerts. This data-driven approach identified specific deficiencies across markets and asset classes, pinpointed models that required tuning, and provided a far more granular level of assurance to the client.

Case Study 2: Risk Transformation Strategy and Execution

Case Study 2: Risk Transformation Strategy and Execution

A client needed help to modernize their organizations approach to risk management and transform with new capabilities. KPMG developed the clients strategic risk vision and strategy, identified core transformation blocks of work and associated ROI, and sequenced those efforts across a multiyear transformation roadmap to accelerate the transformation journey.

How We Help Clients

1

Improve Risk Identification, Measurement, & Mitigation
Our solutions help clients design modernized risk and control frameworks that are efficient, precise, and meet regulatory expectations. We use quantitative risk measurement and machine learning-enabled methods to strengthen risk assessment and testing.

2

Build Scalable Governance
We help organizations design and develop Target Operating Models for Operational and Enterprise Risk. Our expertise in risk and control convergence, GRC/technology integration, and organizational design provides the foundation for scalable, enterprise wide risk management.

3

Enable Real-Time Monitoring
We leverage automation and analytics to support robust risk aggregation and reporting strategies. This includes the development of metrics monitoring and reporting, surveillance alert monitoring, and machine learning-enabled testing to provide continuous insight.

4

Drive Strategic Remediation
Our teams provide support for regulatory letter response and planning, strategic remediation and execution, and regulatory validation and closure preparation, helping clients navigate complex compliance challenges efficiently.

5

Areas of Focus

Our Non-Financial Risk offerings span a broad set of risk domains and solutions, including:

  • NFR framework design, tuning, and optimization
  • Strategic Risk transformation and convergence
  • Regulatory remediation response, planning, execution, and validation
  • Advanced analytics, AI, and surveillance
  • Operational resilience program support
  • Trade surveillance and fraud management tuning and optimization
  • Risk assessment methods and approaches
  • Target operating model design
  • Quantitative risk measurement and reporting

Why KPMG

With strong brand recognition and deep subject matter expertise that differentiates us, particularly in the risk convergence and advanced analytics space, KPMG delivers innovative solutions for our clients' most complex challenges. We are modernizing our offerings to future-proof our solutions, with a focus on how AI will change the landscape of non-financial risk. By shifting to a more specialist delivery model and leveraging a significant portfolio of delivery IP and reusable AI assets, we help clients adapt and thrive.

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Meet the team

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Cameron Burke
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Principal, Advisory, FS Risk, Regulatory & Compliance, KPMG US
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