Palana provides a wide range of services, tailor made for the Asset & Wealth Management and Asset Servicing sectors.

We believe the best advice must incorporate a broad perspective, the most recent models and problem solving skills and be expertly adjusted to reflect the realities of day to day constraints and operations. 

Our consultants provide a combination of industry experience, honed consulting skills, regulatory expertise and technology savviness to deliver high added value advice, on the ground assistance or bespoke solutions.

 

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Consulting 

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Regulatory

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Technology

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Our services*

Strategy & Regulatory

We assist asset management and asset services actors in defining their Strategy and Regulatory approaches with deep industry knowledge and expertise.

Corporate Strategy & Operations

  • Corporate strategy
  • Business Unit strategy
  • Benchmarking
  • Request for proposal management for service providers selection
  • Due diligence definition and management
  • Target operating model design

Regulatory Strategy & Operations

  • Regulatory strategy
  • Governance and substance definition
  • Fund set-up assistance
  • Fund distribution strategy
  • Regulatory gap analysis and operational alignment
  • Regulatory health checks
  • Oversight and control framework definition


Financial crime - AML/CTF

We provide advice and support as part of our AML/CTF expertise area grouping services around the 5 blocks of the AML/CTF Compliance Wheel.

Risk based approach

  • Risk appetite
  • Own risk assessment
  • Risk management and assessment
  • Country risk scoring

Due diligence and scoring

  • On clients, business relationships  and delegates
  • On investors
  • On assets
  • Open Source Intelligence

Adequate internal organisation

  • Governance
  • KPI's and oversight dashboards
  • Trainings
  • AML/CTF policy and procedures
  • RR and RC services and support
  • AML/CTF hotline
  • Data management

Ongoing monitoring of the business relationships

  • Name screening
  • Transaction monitoring
  • File updates and remediation

Cooperation with the Authorities


Operations excellence

Value creation is all about execution.

  • Project management
  • Target operating model implementation 
  • Operational efficiency
  • Business requirements definiton
  • Migration assistance
  • Remediation projects
  • Procedure manual
  • Regulatory implementation
  • Process chain digitalisation

Financial advisory

Leveraging a long standing experience in transactions of all sizes and accompanying actors from multiple sectors of activities, we help in identifying and executing value creation and realisation opportunities.

  • Mergers and Acquisitions advisory
  • Due diligence assistance
  • Financial and business plan modelling
  • Valuation

* non exhaustive list, please do not hesitate to contact us with a specific need