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      KPMG Forensic leverages our vast industry experience and leading technologies to help clients handle fraud and misconduct investigations, address complex regulatory compliance issues, and provide dispute advisory support in financial disputes that are likely to lead to litigation, arbitration, expert determination or mediation.

      Our team comprises local and expatriate professionals with qualifications and experience in forensic accounting, big data analytics, technology, law enforcement and research. We have dedicated Forensic Technology labs in Shanghai and Hong Kong, and are equipped with capability and experience to analyse and host terabytes of data in local jurisdictions. We have leading hardware equipment and are keeping learning and strengthening our technique capacity to address rising market needs on big data analytics, computer forensics and cyber incident responses.

      We have worked with industry professionals in Asia Pacific, and worldwide through the KPMG International Forensic network of over 3,000 professionals to provide one-stop solution for complex projects across numerous jurisdictions.

      Kevin Jin
      Kevin Jin

      Head of Forensic

      KPMG China

      Anti-money laundering and sanctions regulatory compliance
      Fraud and misconduct investigations
      Forensic technology services
      Fraud risk management
      KPMG Cyber Incident Response Service (IR)
      Anti-bribery and Corruption, Anti-trust and Competition Services
      Corporate intelligence
      Dispute advisory services
      Intellectual property and contract compliance services

      Anti-money laundering and sanctions regulatory compliance


      In a rapidly changing regulatory environment, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions regulatory compliance have been a focus area of attention for regulators worldwide. In recent years, the local AML regulatory environment has developed rapidly and is increasingly aligned with international AML standards and practices. Regulated institutions need to keep abreast with the regulatory requirements and environment, in order to adapt and respond to any known and/or anticipated regulatory changes. In addition, a money laundering risk management program should be developed and deployed so that AML risk exposures can be managed in an effective and sustainable manner.

      Whether through the development of governance related to the AML and Sanctions regulatory compliance framework based on more stringent regulatory standards and expectations, or the use of enhanced system capabilities, regulated institutions need to be strategic when they consider how to effectively utilizing resources to ensure AML and Sanctions regulatory compliance.

      KPMG is recognized as a global leader in the AML and Sanctions regulatory compliance space, with proven methods, technology and training support. Our extensive experience working with local, regional and international clients enables us to offer a wide range of services that are risk-based and customized. In respect of any matters related to AML and Sanction regulatory compliance, we can assist with the design and implementation of target management and operating models, help with remediation and rectification of known issues, conduct system model validation, or provide training to cultivate an AML compliance culture. 

      Our diverse range of project experience and professional services include:

      AML audit and AML self-assessment

      Conduct a comprehensive review against domestic and/or international regulatory requirements and common practice noted in the industry. Areas of review include governance, systems, processes and control mechanisms, system settings, and effectiveness in the implementation. Recommendations will be made for any deficiencies and gaps identified.

      Institutional money laundering risk assessment

      Establish a detailed money laundering risks assessment framework, including the design of questionnaires to assess inherent risks and control effectiveness, the allocation of risk weightings used, and the determination of the applicable risk indicators.

      AML system development, enhancement and/or validation

      Based on the findings of regulatory inspections and/or internal audits, develop rectification plan(s) and action items to enhance the effectiveness of the AML controls and processes through the refining of policies and procedures, redesign of systems and data governance mechanisms. In addition, validation of the AML systems can be performed.

      Fine-tuning and/or validation of suspicious transactions monitoring model

      Test, fine-tune and/or validate the design effectiveness and/or operating effectiveness of the transaction monitoring rules, parameters and/or thresholds applied to identify large transactions and/or suspicious transactions.

      Name screening system testing

      Assess the effectiveness of the name screening system, including list management, application of screening logic and rules. Provide recommendations where areas of improvement are noted.

      Due diligence related to AML and sanctions

      Perform due diligence in respect of any pre and/or post securities listing or other activities related to merger and acquisitions activities. The objective is to identify and assess the potential money laundering and sanctions risks arising from the company in question.

      Fraud and misconduct investigations


      KPMG's robust investigative approach is designed to assist clients in verifying the facts, identifying the schemes, recovering stolen assets, and taking necessary legal and/or disciplinary actions.

      Fraud and misconducts may have a long-lasting damage on your corporate reputation and your financial well-being. KPMG's robust investigative approach is designed to assist clients in establishing the facts, identifying the schemes, recovering stolen assets, and taking necessary legal and/or disciplinary actions.

      KPMG assists clients' legal counsel, board of directors, audit committees and management in in-depth investigation into the fraud, misconduct and violations of laws/regulations/company rules and regulations. We have extensive experience in investigating various types of fraud and misconduct, such as:

      • financial reporting fraud
      • embezzlement
      • conflicts of interest
      • employee expense reimbursement fraud
      • corruption and bribery

      Our team comprises local and expatriate professionals with qualifications and experience in forensic accounting, big data analytics, technology, law enforcement and research. We can conduct fact-finding procedures to investigate alleged employee fraud and misconduct. The procedures include conducting interviews, gathering and reviewing financial documentation, reviewing email and other electronic data, conducting third-party site visits, performing big data analytics, conducting stock-take and providing support to counsel in litigation and/or arbitration proceedings. We are also experienced in helping clients communicating with law-enforcement and regulatory authorities.

      Forensic technology services


      The changing business environment is compelling organisations to rely on an increasingly complex information technology infrastructure. In this rapid, highly evolving digital landscape, multiple sources of data, data protection regulations and increasing regulatory scrutiny can make the data preservation and discovery a challenge.

      KPMG’s leading forensic technology capabilities enable our clients to respond quickly to adverse events. Our team of highly skilled, certified forensics examiners can help companies to uncover and interpret electronic data effectively and cost efficiently while ensuring legal admissibility of the digital evidence.

       
      eDiscovery Services


      The amount of electronic data that companies produce today can be overwhelming. As a result, organisations face a variety of complex issues when dealing with electronically stored information (ESI), as well as substantial costs in responding effectively to litigation-related or regulatory requests.

      KPMG’s differentiated wide-ranging approach combines people, process, and technology that cost-effectively tackles today’s complex eDiscovery landscape. Our team of multi-sector experienced and globally recognised certified e-discovery specialists and digital forensic professionals have assisted organisations and legal teams in the past to preserve, analyse and review digital evidence end-to-end. KPMG’s services are enhanced by decades of experience with both externally licensed software and our proprietary eDiscovery tools. Our tailored investigation approach and discovery processes can efficiently accommodate high volumes of data and multiple legal reviewers.

      KPMG enables organisations to mitigate risks and perform end-to-end discovery management by:

      • Providing advanced, easy-to-use tools for data culling, review, and mining in native file format
      • In depth evidence extraction and sorting by uncovering deleted data, file carving and forensic de-duplication of data
      • Ensuring data protection and client data confidentiality by using multi layered encryption on data at rest and data on move
      • Providing remotely accessible review platform for external reviewers and legal councils
      • Ensuring cyber security of infrastructure by using industry leading practices for data security protocols and policy
      • Ensuring legal admissibility by maintaining a strict chain-of-custody and audit trail accountability and tracking of your data

      Forensic Data Analytics Services


      The volume of data and electronic information continues to grow at an astonishing rate. This growth is transforming all aspects of business and changing the way companies manage their business by enabling to take data driven decisions.

      KPMG provides powerful data analytics as service offering that can create immediate value for our clients. Our tailored analysis approach, experiential learnings insights from past investigations and holistic analytics routines can help organisations uncover fraud, waste, and misappropriation of resources thus making an immediate impact on the bottom line. Our team of highly experienced data analysts provide results that are meaningful, understandable, and easily transferable to management, internal audit, or investigative teams. We use graphic depictions and tabular results to identify trends and behaviours to highlight high-risk categories.

      KPMG leverages sophisticated data analytics to provide proactive and reactive fraud analysis and fraud risk assessments. comparisons, summaries, and aggregations to detect anomalies, patterns, and trends that are potentially indicative of fraud or other misconduct.  We leverage sophisticated technology and approache to gain insights on business partners, customers, and agents; analyze transactional data to help uncover patterns, biases, errors and find the relevant facts for determining fraud, misconduct, or violations of laws, regulations and company policies.

      Our insight and experience, coupled with the use of technological methodologies, greatly increases a company’s ability to manage risk while providing efficient and cost-effective alternatives to meet the growing demands of today’s business challenges.

      Fraud risk management


      KPMG can provide you with an objective opinion on the quality of your current fraud governance program by identifying gaps, and assessing possible fraud and misconduct risks. We can also help you decide on practical and cost-effective action plans. We have considerable experience in delivering fraud awareness training to alert front line staff and management to the early warning signs of fraud and how to manage these risks effectively.

      We work with our clients to design strategy and process, in the combination of data analytics, we prevent, detect and respond to fraud and misconduct risks. Recently we launch a high cost performance product, to identify conflicts of interest risks.

      KPMG Cyber Incident Response Service (IR)


      As many organisations are recognising and experiencing first-hand, cyber-attacks are no longer a matter of if, but when. Recent cyber breaches at major corporations highlight the increasing sophistication, stealth and persistence of cyber-attacks that organisations are facing today. Increased data privacy regulations have not only emphasised on the data protection mechanisms in placed but have also pose a challenge to the organisations to have a robust cyber response plan in place. The loss of intellectual property, customer data, and other sensitive information—as well as resulting business operations disruption—can cause severe financial and reputational damage.

      KPMG team comprising of highly technical and experienced first responders and cyber security professionals can enable you in managing cyber crisis effectively. Our team has helped organisations in developing a strong incident response plan to mitigate future threats, test working of existing cyber response plan by mock drills and respond to cyber breach. In an event of cyber breach our team can enable you to preserve evidence, understand what happened, mitigate risks, and support internal, legal and/or law enforcement inquiries. Our team has investigated high profile and highly sophisticated cyber incidents like vendor comprise attacks, fake invoice attempts, phishing attacks, ransomware attacks, data thefts/breaches and crypto miner infections. We have trained many corporate security teams in effectively carrying out cyber response and containment measures. Our network of member firms enables clients to respond to cyber breaches globally and help leading organisations worldwide effectively manage and protect their most valuable data across a broad spectrum of evolving threats and scenarios.

      KPMG team is a preferred incident handler of many large insurances company over the world. Our diverse range of project experience and professional services include:

      Tabletop/simulated cyber incidents

      • Tailored exercises that mimic real world incidents with injects as challenges faced by organization during incidents to strengthen decision making process, build understanding of individual roles and mitigate process gaps.

      Incident response plan and playbook development

      • Assistance in creation of an incident response program and process design aligned with organizations risk framework.
      • Development of cyber playbooks tailored to organizations workflows, tools for typical incidents for holistic mitigation.

      Threat Intelligence Lead Threat Hunting

      • Proactive monitoring checks and early warnings based on analysis of logs and incidents to help reduce risks and threats of cyber incidents.
      • This may include hunting for indicators due to recent vulnerabilities, exposed IT assets and services or threat intel driven approach.

      Compromise assessment

      • Proactive assessment/review of an organization's technical infrastructure including host- based log analysis, active directory review and/or network analysis to determine if any unidentified compromise has occurred previously.

      Incident management

      • On Demand assistance in resolving cyber incidents end-to-end which includes all phases of incident response process, viz. forensic triage, containment, investigation, remediation and reporting.

      Cyber Security Training

      • Tailored technical cyber security trainings designed to benefit the in-house cyber defenders and incident response technical teams. Our trainings are bespoke and aligned with tools/ technology used within the organisation to reduce the learning curve with emphasis on hands-on labs and war-gaming activity. 

      Anti-bribery and Corruption, Anti-trust and Competition Services


      KPMG’s Anti-bribery and Corruption Service is designed to assist clients to manage risk under the U.S. FCPA, the U.K. Bribery Act 2010, and the anti-corruption laws of numerous other countries. We help clients prevent, detect and respond appropriately to the risks of misconduct relating to bribery and corruption.

      • Our prevention and detection measures include risk assessments, compliance review, the evaluation of program controls and governance structures, due diligence on business partners, vendors and other third-party intermediaries, acquisition due diligence, and training programs in a variety of formats.
      • Our response measures include conducting inquiries to vet the authenticity of allegations, conducting cross-border investigations related to allegations of violations, and developing remediation strategies to strengthen anti-bribery and corruption programs and controls.
      • In addition, we also provide clients consulting services in relation to ISO 37001 Anti-bribery Management Systems (ABMS) Certification, to prepare corporations from different sectors in setting up their own anti-bribery management system.

      KPMG acts as competition specialists on remedies arising out of mergers and market investigations and provide advice that adds value to organizations, governments, and competition authorities. 

      • We help by acting as Monitoring Trustee to oversee client’s compliance with its obligations, and report to the local anti-trust and competition authorities.
      • We provide clients with market studies and sector inquiry services such as competition assessment and profitability analysis.
      • We provide clients with anti-trust damages estimation and litigation support services.

      KPMG Forensic team have has extensive project experience in proactive and reactive compliance management, anti-fraud, anti-bribery and corruption and anti-trust services. Meanwhile, we also have deep understanding on compliance risks faced by overseas operations of for Chinese enterprises. We can provide unique and customized services to help enterprises achieve continuously enhancing the goal of all-round their compliance management for their overseas business activities.

      Corporate intelligence


      Increasing global transactions and regulatory scrutiny are forcing companies to reassess their business relationships in order to evaluate risks, undertake informed negotiations, and to comply with regulatory mandates.

      Failure to adequately screen agents, business partners and clients, and to understand how they operate can expose a company to potential reputational damage, operational risks, government investigations, as well as monetary penalties and criminal liabilities.

      Part of managing risk involves being certain of whom you are dealing with, both internally (those you entrust to run your business) and externally (those with whom you do business); particularly if you have interests in unfamiliar jurisdictions where reliable and accurate information can be hard to obtain.

      KPMG's global network of CI professionals gathers and assimilates information from various public and non-public sources to help companies make informed decisions on issues such as joint ventures, investments, recruitments, mergers and acquisitions, and disposals.

      In addition, Astrus, KPMG’s secure on-line due diligence tool, could provide a robust and cost-efficient way to obtain information and may support the assessment of risks associated with customers, agents and counterparties.

      Astrus uses advanced search technologies to cover an extensive range of online public data sources such as the global sanctions and regulatory enforcement lists, corporate records, court filings, and press and media archives.  Important integrity and reputational information may be identified and interpreted by our dedicated team of CI professionals to help clients assess potential reputational, regulatory and jurisdictional risks.

      Astrus could also provide companies with:

      • Access to data from multiple premium data sources in multiple jurisdictions
      • Clear and concise summary of key findings and possible risks
      • Single point of entry and delivery via the Astrus portal tools
      • Web-based access to CI/commission reports
      • Objective assessment of facts related to potential integrity risk issues

      Dispute advisory services


      KPMG is experienced in dealing with cross-border dispute cases involving complex international issues and financial theories, multiple languages, geographically and culturally diverse locations, and multiple currencies.

      We have given evidence in International Chamber of Commerce arbitrations across the world on many occasions, assisting clients with issues including quantifying and analyzing their position, negotiation strategy, expert witness testimony, damages assessment and document management. We also have experience sitting as an arbitrator or independent expert to determine a dispute.

      Intellectual property and contract compliance services



      Many companies have commercial relationships with third partiesbusiness partners where payments and receipts are based on self-declarations that can be difficult to monitor, verify, or check. These relationships frequently arise from the licensing of various forms of intellectual property rights, such as patents, copyright or know-how.

      KPMG takes a multidisciplinary approach to these services, enabling us to understand partnering relationships for a large range of contractual compliance obligations. Our forensic background allows us to focus on facts rather than on opinions. We have helped many of our clients gain full value due from contracts and intellectual property rights; this has allowed our clients to maintain or improve relationships with their partners while achieving recovery/fee ratios often in excess of 15:1 through increased revenues or reduced costs.

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      Kevin Jin
      Kevin Jin

      Head of Forensic

      KPMG China

      Cathy Zhou
      Cathy Zhou

      Partner, Head of AML and Sanctions Regulatory Compliance

      KPMG China

      Lilian Sin
      Lilian Sin

      Partner, AML and Sanctions Services Hong Kong (SAR)

      KPMG China

      Clark Zhu
      Clark Zhu

      Partner, Forensic

      KPMG China

      Dakai Liu
      Dakai Liu

      Partner, Cyber Incident Response Forensic

      KPMG China

      Mohit Kumar
      Kumar Mohit

      Director, Cyber Incident Response Forensic Hong Kong (SAR)

      KPMG China

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