The IaS differentiation: "3 Es" - Expertise, Experience & Excitement
IaS is a premier advisory firm with globally recognized partners and associates.
We have the bandwidth of expertise in-house and with our affiliates to understand and advise on today's and tomorrow's volatile risk environment. IaS has over 30 Partners and over 300 associate partners in Canada, the UK and Ireland. We provide specialized insights for many businesses within financial services including: banking, capital markets, wealth management and insurance.
IaS has specialists in the following risk control areas
Our leadership team has exceptional experience in their respective fields, for example: Credit Risk . Ken Clarke predicted that Lehman Brothers, a number of UK, U.S. and Irish Banks would "collapse" and the structured credit market would suffer systemic crisis many months before it happened. Ken is a top 6 of 23,000 internal auditors globally. . Terence Yhip will be publishing imminently the authoritative text book on credit analysis and credit risk. Enterprise Risk . Andrew Richardson's thought leadership contributed to the development of global practices in Enterprise and Operational Risk Management in Financial Services. Cyber Security & 3rd-party Risk Governance Rajesh Varma is a management consulting professional with more than 25 years of multi-faceted experience in Cyber-Security, Risk Assessment, IT and Outsourcing Governance.
Our team has exceptional experience in their respective fields, for example: Auditing Tim Boucher established and directed the North American Internal Audit function for a Global Financial Services leader He directed audits for over 30 years in multi-unit, multi-country environments. Accounting Bill Shek has over 35 years experience with global financial institutions and is considered by many to be the top expert in financial services accounting practices. IFRS Tony Kwan is finance leader with 30 years of experience in financial reporting at top tier financial institutions.
Our team has exceptional experience in their respective fields, for example: AML . Andrew Hockin is an expert in Global AML/ATF Regulations and Risk Analysis. . Rebecca Lai is a professional with over 25 years of Information Technology audit experience. She is an expert in Risks and Controls evaluation frameworks that can withstand regulators’ scrutiny in North America, Europe and Asia.
Inadequate AML, IT and privacy controls can be not only embarrassing but can cost $billions in regulatory fines. IaS has the capability to mitigate these risks.