Leasing and asset financing companies are attractive to organised criminal networks because they provide access to high-value movable assets such as vehicles, machinery and equipment that can be acquired, resold, or transferred to disguise the origin of illicit funds or facilitate the movement of value across borders.
The use of complex ownership structures, third-party guarantors, or early settlement of leases can further obscure the true source of funds and beneficial ownership. To mitigate these risks, it is essential that leasing and asset financing companies maintain a robust, enterprise-wide money laundering, terrorism and proliferation financing risk assessment framework.
By systematically identifying and assessing their exposure to financial crime risks and evaluating the design and operational effectiveness of their mitigating controls in a manner appropriate and proportionate to their size, structure and business model, they can enhance compliance, protect their reputation and ensure the integrity and resilience of their financial operations.
About Arctic Intelligence’s Risk Assessment Platform
Arctic Intelligence’s Risk Assessment Platform can be used by smaller reporting entities out-of-the-box with standardised risk and control libraries or configured by medium and larger enterprises to suit any enterprise risk management framework.
Our multi-award-winning platform is highly-configurable and can be tailored to suit your methodology, risk indicators, applying risk and/or control weightings as appropriate, with a full audit trail and real-time data aggregation of individual business lines or consolidated across enterprises.
Designed by experts to support your industry
The money laundering, terrorism and proliferation financing risk and control module contains a library of risks, controls and control tests designed specifically for different types of regulated Leasing and Asset Financing Companies:
What’s included in the content module?
Each of our expert-designed risk modules contain an Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessment, a Channel Risk Assessment, a Product Risk Assessment and a Country Risk Assessment containing hundreds of risk indicators and risk factors, grouped under different risk categories and risk groups.
In addition to a fully comprehensive risk library, our module also contains a library of controls and control tests that you can use to assess the design and operational effectiveness of your control environment.
Our content modules can be used out-of-the-box, easily modified to suit your requirements or you can simply build and import your own risk and control content. We can support implementation directly or through our growing advisory network.
What’s the content module structure?
Our content modules contain hundreds of different risk factors and risk indicators combined with hundreds of controls and control tests, aligned to the following structure.
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Exposure to External Risks - Money Laundering or Terrorism Financing Risks; Proliferation Financing Risks; Sanctions or Geopolitical Risks; Fraud and Scam Risks and Other Financial Crimes. National Risk Assessment Considerations - Criminal Threats; Sector Vulnerabilities; Regulatory Expectations; Enforcement and Supervision; International Standards and Divergence; Legal and Judicial Systems and Emerging Regulations. |
Exposure to Internal Risks - Governance and Oversight; AML/CTF Program Alignment to Risks; AML/CTF Program Non-Compliance and Regulatory Reporting. Exposure to Operational Risks - Business Location Risk; Outsourcing Risk; Employee Risk; New or significant business changes and Emerging or forward looking risks. |
Why choose the
Risk Assessment Platform?
How does it work?
The diagram below visualises recognised industry best risk assessment practices overlaid against the features within the Risk Assessment Platform that supports these processes.
