Forensic and regulatory analytics

PwC’s Forensic and regulatory analytics professionals are well positioned to help firms analyze their data and information to respond effectively to regulatory requirements, fraud risks, and disputes. Our teams have combine the technical skills required for analyzing transactional data with deep knowledge of the operational and regulatory environments of multiple industries.

Organizations have large amounts of data spread across financial, enterprise resource planning and other disparate legacy systems. PwC is skilled at extracting and analyzing both financial and non-financial data to:

• Investigate alleged fraud, corruption, or non-compliance with regulatory requirements, leveraging deep industry-specific experience
• Perform self-assessments related to possible compliance violations or operational failures
• Respond to regulatory inquiries, investigations, and examinations
• Perform mandated “lookbacks” and/ or remediation exercises
• Oppose class certification, calculate potential exposure, and assist in the development of defense strategies in connection with class action litigation
• Use of data analysis to test the effectiveness of controls
• Identify and quantify non-compliance with contract terms or agreements
• Perform pre or post acquisition due diligence with respect to financial or operational performance
• Advise clients on the selection, implementation, testing, and tuning of transaction monitoring systems used to detect fraud or compliance violations.