Our client was looking to better understand how professional services firms and other heavily regulated businesses manage the various risks associated with compliance with regulatory and legal requirements.
The objective was to define best practices and industry standards related to independence, and other reputation and regulatory risk areas such as anti-corruption-trade, quality & risk management, confidentiality & privacy.
10EQS identified and interviewed leading risk and independence experts with experience in the professional services space and assessed how leading companies structure their independence functions. 10EQS further assessed companies’ methods to manage risk, including systemization, standardization, and automation.
10EQS delivered specific values (i.e. number of FTEs) for various risk areas across companies to provide benchmarking data for the client and provided best practices regarding the risk function.