The Benefit
- Business line and compliance can tell the full story of remediation efforts and apply outcomes to other potentially impacted lines of business.
- Improved consistency and reduced likelihood of repeat findings, due to formalization of procedure reviews.
- Ability to validate through a holistic review that all aspects have been addressed.
- Broader awareness due to mechanism to share findings with other potentially impacted groups; also potential remediation across lines of business.
A super-regional bank asked Bridgeforce to evaluate their Second Line of Defense oversight over two critical elements: creation and maintenance of policies and procedures, and the identification and remediation of all findings (line of business and audit).
Based on a review of the current state of compliance procedure reviews, audit finding closures, and discussions with key stakeholders, the Bridgeforce team developed:
- Standards for the maintenance and independent review of LOB compliance-related and compliance-owned procedures, reducing the risk of non-adherence to applicable banking laws, rules and regulations, and policies.
- An efficient, effective, and integrated Compliance Tollgate Process certifying the completeness and sustainability of regulatory compliance-related findings remediation – reducing the risk of reopened and repeat findings