RegTech Services

Ensuring Compliance. Enabling Business.

Regulation and technology play a significant role in determining the success of our clients.

To support our clients in ensuring compliance in today’s highly complex regulatory environment and to help enable business while technological advancement accelerates and customer demands change, we built a RegTech team of innovative, passionate and experienced people with a diverse set of skills.

Our RegTech Services’ unique selling proposition is to provide services to our clients which combine regulatory strategy, legal, compliance, technology and innovation perspectives.

Our services

RegTech cloud services

“Ensuring compliance in cloud computing and enabling your business with it at once” is the strength of our RegTech cloud services. The use of cloud solutions has turned from a potential option into a must-have across various industries to empower organisations and stay relevant in today’s fast-paced, data-driven world. To offer you optimal support in the areas of technology, security, privacy, legal and compliance, and to build trust in your individual cloud solution, we have put together a team of regulatory and technology specialists to provide the best holistic cloud services on the market.

Our RegTech cloud services cover:

cloud education modules in technology, privacy, security, legal and compliance
industry-specific, individually tailored advice on any cloud topic from interdisciplinary, seasoned PwC professionals, and
support with cloud strategies, technology providers and RegTech solutions.

Your benefits

of ensuring compliance of cloud computing and enabling your business with it are provided by our RegTech cloud services team:

composed of cloud experts in technology, security, privacy, legal and compliance
at the forefront of regulatory and technology developments in cloud topics in Switzerland and internationally (e.g. via regulatory working groups, technology innovation centres and conferences, industry and PwC global networks), and
highly connected and experienced to work with leading cloud technology providers in Switzerland and internationally, especially in highly regulated industries like banking and insurance

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Digital customer onboarding

One of the most crucial stages of the client lifecycle is the customer onboarding process. It is a unique opportunity to create a strong client relationship from the very beginning. We are experienced legal & compliance professionals – with regulatory & technology expertise – who understand how to implement compliant digital solutions to onboard clients at financial institutions: from a regulatory, technology and customer experience point of view.

We support you with proven solutions for:

full digital onboarding (digital-only process)
hybrid digital onboarding (seamless combination of human and digital interaction)

Your benefits

End-to-end solutions with support in:

overview and orientation
technology (solutions provider research, conceptualisation, implementation)
regulatory & compliance (AML, CDB)
legal (contracts, forms)
customer-centricity (design, usability)

Transaction monitoring service

Transaction monitoring set-ups are quite often not only inefficient but also ineffective. Financial institutions are being buried in false anti-money-laundering alerts, creating an enormous workload for their compliance staff, while at the same time a lot of real money laundering activity is not being caught. Our Transaction Monitoring Service helps you to optimise transaction monitoring systems, processes and controls at your financial institution.

For our Transaction Monitoring Service, we have gathered a unique team of specialists from Switzerland with broad international experience in:

financial crime prevention
data analytics
RegTech

Your benefits

We help you in the context of transaction monitoring to:

improve the detection rate and efficiency
reduce false alarms and manual work
save time and costs

RegTech strategy paper

Our RegTech strategy paper provides you with a comprehensive analysis and guidance for digital transformation at financial institutions. It is designed to help you harness business opportunities by deploying advanced strategies, working methods and technologies within the regulatory framework.

Our approach focuses particularly on the following three dimensions:

regulatory: understanding the strategic dimension of regulation
infrastructure & technology: seeing the potential and limitations of your current set-up
business: learn about your current and future business opportunities

Your benefits

Overview and guidance based on a holistic strategy paper on:

overview and orientation
technology (solutions provider research, conceptualization, implementation)
regulatory & compliance (laws and regulations)
legal (contracts, forms)
customer-centricity (design, usability)

RegTech search & deploy

Our RegTech search & deploy services are designed to find you the best possible solution for your requirements. We draw on our extensive global database of RegTech firms, our hands-on experience as an implementation partner to financial institutions internationally, and our global network within PwC, across industries and in the RegTech field.

Our search & deploy service is based on a proven approach:

search: scoping & finding
design: streamlining and standardization
deploy: technology implementation plus legal & regulatory check

Your benefits

We help you find industry-leading solutions:

solutions tailored to client needs
implementation support on the regulatory and technology side
improved design & usability
modular and agile working method
legal & regulatory support

Compliance automation

Our compliance automation service helps you analyse, improve and automate your processes on the basis of the best and most suitable methods. Your legal, compliance, risk and business functions will all benefit.

We use a proven three-step approach:

analysis: documentation & scoping
design: streamlining & standardization
automation: technology selection & implementation

Your benefits

Compliant end-to-end solutions:

regulatory & technology expert check
improved design & usability
efficient and effective delivery
modular and agile working method

FinTech-Bank connector

A recent survey by the Swiss National Bank on digitalisation and FinTech at Swiss banks revealed that banks expect a strong level of digitalisation in financial intermediation. This development is seen by the industry as a source of opportunities, particularly with regard to cutting costs and improving service quality. It also shows that banks see FinTechs as partners given their agility, size and specialised focus. Last but not least, FinTechs often provide new and improved customer experiences with the ability to go quickly to market.

Our proven approach for this service is based on:

our professional experience as PwC Legal service providers
the inclusion of our experts from PwC’s Experience Centers
PwC's global network, its incubators/accelerators and partner firms

Your benefits

We help you as FinTech-Bank Connectors to:

match FinTechs with banks according to their preferences,
guide you to sandboxes with API and test data
provide legal/compliance and FinTech/RegTech expertise
provide specialised know-how on customer experience, design thinking, API, cloud, data

SME compliance buddy

Our passionate team serves you as your SME compliance buddy, enabling small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to benefit from solutions to multiple compliance challenges. These include AML/KYC, fraud, whistleblowing, governance, conduct, policy and process implementation, data protection, economic sanctions, fair competition and criminal liability.

Our approach focuses particularly on:

solving your issues and ensuring compliance
enabling business opportunities
developing and supporting a sustainable culture across the firm

Your benefits

We help you:

Manage regulatory requirements and compliance imperatives by identifying the impacts of regulatory provisions on business models, products and services, functional activities, policies, operational procedures and controls
Control and manage your regulatory, financial and non-financial risks
Handle business systems and data efficiently and compliantly
Harness business opportunities and strategic and competitive advantages
Tackle multiple challenges in our role as highly experienced legal and compliance professionals