Risk Certification

Upon reviewing your procedures, we will assess and make recommendations to enhance or improve your risk management arrangements. Once all recommendations have been addressed, we will certify your risk management procedures as compliant with ‘good practice’ standards set by the industry. With our credentials in compliance and risk management, the IMS certification will be a valuable asset for new investors.

Certification Benefits

1.Reassurance to Investors: certification is a strong signal to the investment community that you operate in a risk controlled framework. A certified firm/fund is a safer investment.

2.Independence: Independent risk certification reduces conflict of interests and helps the firm to extend the risk techniques used

3.Regulatory Comfort: Risk certification provides the necessary comfort to the regulators that you are meeting your risk responsibilities effectively

4.Transparency: risk certification increases transparency in risk controls and trading

5.Investment Speed: Investors can rely on certification and avoid the time consuming process of conducting their own due diligence on the firm/fund.

6.Visibility: certified funds are notified to the investment community and this widens your marketing opportunities

How we do it

• The IMS certification combines two IMS services: the IMS Risk Assessment and Monitoring
• A firm can choose between: Risk Process Certification and Risk Management Certification
• IMS will complete a due diligence stage and will provide a set of recommendations for the firm to action.
• IMS will verify that risk recommendations have been fully implemented
• The firm (or fund) will then become eligible for risk certification
• The IMS certification will be subject to ongoing validation 

If you would like more information on our Risk Certification product please contact Elisa Perna +44(0)20 7408 2448.