Financial Crime​

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Financial crime and regulatory compliance 

The pace and complexity of financial crime regulation continue to rise, exposing organisations to greater risk from money laundering, terrorist and, proliferation financing and fraud. We help you strengthen compliance frameworks and build resilient, technology-enabled operations that meet evolving regulatory expectations and stay ahead of emerging threats.

Financial crime compliance​

We combine deep regional expertise with practical insight to help you enhance your anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), counter-proliferation financing (CPF) and sanctions frameworks. Our support spans governance, people, process, technology and data – the foundations of effective financial crime control. Our core services include:​

  • Assessments: Conducting end-to-end financial crime risk and current-state assessments to identify vulnerabilities and align with regulatory requirements​
  • Transformation: Redesigning structures, streamlining processes and strengthening oversight to build stronger financial crime functions​
  • Operations: Designing and embedding scalable operating models that balance compliance, efficiency and governance​
  • Technology: Implementing monitoring and sanctions screening tools with automation and dashboards that deliver clear, real-time insights​
  • Data: Cleaning, enriching and analysing data to improve detection, reporting and performance tracking​
  • Remediation: Delivering both immediate fixes and long-term remediation programmes to address regulatory findings and build lasting compliance​

Regulatory compliance​

We help you enhance compliance controls and keep pace with evolving regulatory expectations through targeted assessments, strategic remediation and large-scale transformation. Our core service offerings in this area include:​

  • Assessments: Identifying compliance gaps and risks, mapping effective controls and developing remediation plans with full traceability to regulatoryrequirements​

  • Remediation: Addressing regulatory findings and compliance gaps with practical, sustainable solutions that strengthen trust and accountability​

  • Transformation: Reimagining compliance across conduct risk, anti-bribery and corruption, whistleblowing, compliance advisory, monitoring, regulatoryreporting and compliance intelligence​

We bring regulatory insight, digital tools and deep industry knowledge together to help you turn compliance into a driver of confidence and long-term value.​

Financial Services Counter-Fraud Advisory

We help you strengthen your fraud risk management practices so you can detect, prevent and respond effectively to fraud, while meeting regulatory expectations and global best practice. Our core services include:​

  • Transformation: Enhancing fraud risk management frameworks by redesigning governance structures, streamlining processes and embedding advancedanalytics and technology​

  • Remediation: Addressing gaps in existing fraud risk management practices through practical fixes and long-term remediation programmes​

  • Detection: Using advanced methodologies and technologies for real-time fraud detection and monitoring​

  • Prevention: Building proactive defences through strong controls, governance frameworks, training and awareness programmes​

We work with you to create a culture of integrity and resilience – helping your organisation stay vigilant, compliant and ready to act.​

Managed services​

Our managed services give you scalable, high-quality support to maintain compliance, strengthen controls and improve efficiency. Delivered by multidisciplinary teams, we combine technology, process excellence and deep domain knowledge to help you operate with confidence.​

Our core services include:​

Client lifecycle management: Reviewing and remediating know your customer (KYC) details across the customer lifecycle​

AML transaction monitoring: Investigating and resolving alerts to detect suspicious activity and support timely reporting​

Sanctions screening reviews: Screening and assessing alerts to identify, escalate and block sanctioned parties and transactions​

Fraud monitoring: Providing 24/7 investigation and response to real-time fraud alerts to prevent and contain potential threats​

We act as an extension of your team, helping you scale efficiently, stay compliant and focus on what matters most – running your business with integrity and assurance.​

As financial crime and regulatory risks evolve, organisations are turning to smarter, faster and more scalable compliance solutions. Our technology-driven tools and accelerators bring together automation, analytics and insight to help you stay ahead of emerging risks and regulatory expectations.​

Our key solutions include:​

  • AssessTech: Streamlines and automates risk assessments, delivering consistent, data-driven insights​

  • Merchant360: Provides deep intelligence on merchant behaviour for smarter onboarding, efficient risk scoring, monitoring and detection​

  • Compliance Intelligence Dashboards: Offers advanced, real-time analytics that track key risk indicators (KRIs) and enhance reporting to senior management​

  • Transaction Monitoring Optimiser: Uses data-driven analytics to refine monitoring thresholds, improve accuracy and reduce false alerts​

  • Sanctions Screening Optimiser: Enhances screening precision and minimises false positives through advanced analytics​

  • Regulatory Supervision Tools: Supports regulators and institutions in managing and overseeing compliance frameworks with greater precision, transparency and scale​

Our digital solutions help you turn compliance into a strategic advantage – giving you greater visibility, stronger control and the agility to respond to what’s next.​

Contact us

Rana Shasha’a

Rana Shasha’a

Partner, Head of Forensics, PwC Middle East

Tel: +971 56 661 3444 / +966 55 177 1734

Mahmoud Al-Salah

Mahmoud Al-Salah

Partner, Forensics | Financial Crime Compliance Leader | Deals Financial Services Leader, PwC Middle East

Tel: +971 56 995 6030

Hafedh Ajmi

Hafedh Ajmi

Partner, Forensics, PwC Middle East

Tel: +971 56 533 4321

Punit Kumar Jain

Punit Kumar Jain

Partner, Financial Services, PwC Middle East

Tel: +971544974937

Collin Keeney

Collin Keeney

Partner, Forensics, PwC Middle East

Tel: +971 50 210 7130

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