Time for banks to display financial crime risk ratings

How can sanctions work when banks spend billions on box-ticking compliance, but criminals still easily launder vast sums through the banking system?

Quiz question: how many regulated benchmarks are there in Europe for measuring financial crime risk? Hint: not many.

Under EU benchmarking regulation, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) registers all manner of providers of financial indices, mostly used for gauging the performance of investment funds.

ESMA is also the sole regulator of credit ratings agencies in the EU.

It regulates one company that provides a single index that defines standards for measuring financial crime risk. That is the Elucidate FinCrime Index (EFI), the signature product of Elucidate, a Berlin-based financial crime risk quantification agency founded in 2018.

The moment you engage in banking, there is some potential for financial crime risk

Max Heywood, Elucidate

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