Palana provides a wide range of services, tailor made for the Financial Industry.
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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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 and Business Unit strategy
- Benchmarking
- Request for proposal (RFP) 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 and "mock inspections"
- Oversight and control framework definition
Compliance assistance
- Creation or review of internal policies and procedures
- Compliance Monitoring Plan (CMP) definition and control execution
- Marketing Communication
- Compliance hotline
- Regulatory Watch
- Trainings
Financial crime - AML/CTF
We provide advice and support as part of our AML/CTF expertise area.
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
RC Services
- RC reporting and assistance
- RC role (for funds)
- RC monitoring plan control execution
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