Hiltrud Werner, former head of integrity and legal affairs at VW, describes how BCG helped the company through a fundamental crisis.
Our Risk Management and Compliance Services
Technology-enabled, data-driven programs that improve agility and strengthen corporate compliance cultures.
Enhanced end-to-end processes that improve decision quality and operational efficiency.
Strategic insights to quantify and mitigate trading, supply chain, and market risks.
Expert support to reduce digital vulnerabilities and enable rapid recovery.
Embedding ESG into enterprise risk, from scenario analysis to net zero alignment.
Tailored solutions for predictive insights and faster, better decision-making.
Holistic approaches to funding, with support from experienced liquidity risk management consultants, ensuring effective liquidity and financial risk consulting.
Guardrails to reduce exposure, reputational risk, and regulatory impact. Every program is shaped by an experienced operational risk consultant who ensures that organizations build resilience and meet regulatory expectations.
Our Approach to Risk Management and Compliance Consulting
BCG brings a strategic, all-encompassing approach to risk management and compliance, treating it as not just a control mechanism but also a source of clarity, resilience, and sustainable value. We partner with clients across industries to address today’s challenges while enabling tomorrow’s growth.
We collaborate with our clients to provide end-to-end risk and compliance consulting services that span both financial risk and compliance and non-financial risk. Our integrated teams combine deep sector expertise with advanced analytics, AI, and leading-edge tools to help organizations make confident decisions amid uncertainty. Across all domains, our focus is on building resilient organizations that are equipped to thrive, not just survive.
Our Clients’ Success in Risk Management and Compliance
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functional initiatives
A world-leading automobile manufacturer engaged us to design and help roll out its global integrity and compliance program. This tremendous transformation program was built on two key pillars: implementing processes and inspiring people. The program strengthened governance and processes; more than 10 functional initiatives were rolled out across over 500 legal entities around the globe. In addition, all company employees were actively engaged along the journey via a diverse set of communication, training, information, and enablement initiatives—embarking on the path to achieving sustainable culture change.
85%
expected loss reduction
A market-leading merchant acquirer with a strong footprint in travel and airlines engaged our risk management and compliance and payments teams for immediate crisis response, gaining strength and resilience while continuing to onboard new clients even in the midst of the crisis. We reduced the client’s exposure by more than one-third and expected loss by approximately 85% during that time, while doubling the profitability per transaction volume in high-risk verticals.
€5 billion+
of reduced liquidity exposure
Utilities have been severely impacted by dramatically elevated market volatility in European gas and power prices. For a leading utility, BCG identified over €5 billion of reduced liquidity exposure, supported by our liquidity risk management consultants, through a rebalanced gas and power portfolio. We simulated and defined an adjusted hedging strategy, recalibrating the triangle of market, credit, and liquidity risk, and improved financing structures to significantly improve working capital.
Double-digit
expected loss reduction
For a regional life insurer, we reworked the company’s balance sheet management framework with a focus on financial risk and compliance and optimized the balance sheet and capital position through a targeted set of initiatives. The project took the company from losing money to profitable within a few months, and set the firm up to earn double-digit returns on capital over the coming years.
Client Impact
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Our risk and compliance consulting experts unique blend of deep technical expertise with strategic orientation, working in collaboration with clients through their toughest crises and compliance risk management challenges. We stay a step ahead, ensuring that our clients are prepared for tomorrow.
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