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EXPERTISE / INVESTMENT BANKS

Built for the
complexity of
capital markets.

Investment banking transformation demands institutional fluency - from counterparty onboarding and financial crime obligations to technology, controls and operational resilience. EPIF connects these decisions to measurable outcomes.

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WHERE WE WORK

One institution.
Interconnected challenges.

01 / CLIENT LIFECYCLE

Institutional onboarding and counterparty KYC

Process redesign, policy-to-workflow translation, EDD, refresh and event-triggered reviews across complex entities.

02 / FINANCIAL CRIME

AML, sanctions and surveillance operations

Find rework, friction and control gaps; build clear escalation, QA and evidence into investigator processes.

03 / TRANSFORMATION

Post-trade, middle office and enterprise operations

Assess reconciliations, handoffs, exceptions and data pathways before committing to systems modernization.

04 / RISK + AI

AI governance, model risk and intelligent workflows

Use EPIF to pick high-value use cases, then define control requirements, human authority and measurable go-live conditions.

EPIF APPLIED / INVESTMENT BANKING

One counterparty onboarding,
walked through EPIF.

How the four stages play out on institutional onboarding, where legal entity complexity, several jurisdictions and front-office pressure meet a KYC queue. Illustrative and deliberately high level.

  1. 01 / DIAGNOSE

    Diagnose

    Trace a sample of onboardings end to end, from mandate to trading-ready, and quantify where time and effort accumulate: entity data gathered more than once, outreach repeated across teams, reviews waiting on each other.

    In hand: A measured baseline the business and Finance both recognize.
  2. 02 / SEQUENCE

    Sequence

    Rank by what each fix returns in trading-ready days and in risk. A single source of entity data and clear ownership between front office, KYC and legal typically rank ahead of workflow tooling.

    In hand: A ranked plan, least-risk change first.
  3. 03 / DELIVER

    Deliver

    Change ownership and data flow first, with the control functions in the room, then introduce orchestration and assisted review where the volume justifies it.

    In hand: Controlled change with the controls intact.
  4. 04 / PROVE

    Prove

    Report time to trading-ready, rework rate and reviewer touch time against the baseline, by desk and by jurisdiction.

    In hand: A result defended with numbers, not asserted.

The full method: seven governed decisions and the questions executives ask first

THE DIFFERENCE

Not another tool.
A better decision.

Our signature EPIF methodology starts with the operational reality, not a preferred platform. It creates the evidence to decide when to eliminate work, redesign it, automate it or deploy AI with appropriate governance.

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