Billions of dollars’ worth of illicit funds move through financial system every year, enabling criminals to continue their unlawful activities around the world. Sigma Risk was founded in 2012 in London, with the vision to make this world a better place by fighting financial crime through expertise, technology, and innovation.
Sigma Risk believes that access to expertise without geographical or financial barriers and it is our mission to make knowledge, expertise, and advice readily available to financial institutions, regulatory bodies, law enforcement and international corporates to fight our collective battle against financial crime.
Serving our client across the continents, Sigma Risk has established our reputation as highly reputable financial crime compliance consultancy firm holding proven track record of designing and delivering bespoke compliance technology solutions, financial crime compliance advisory services, policy & procedural development and bespoke Sigma Risk® training masterclasses.
50Million morden slavery
24.9 Million victims of human trafficking
According to a 2020 report, the cost of financial crime to the financial institutions is estimated to be in excess of $200 billion.
Fraud costs the global economy over US$5 trillion – 2019
Human trafficking is among the world’s fastest growing criminal enterprises and is estimated to be a $150 billion-a-year global industry. (2014)
It is estimated that value of drugs sale is in excess of $400 billion every year, making it the most lucrative criminals activity in the world
Financial crime is not a victimless crime and every type of financial crime impacts the members of society in some shape or form.
Financial gain is the underlying motive behind every type of predicate crime resulting in generation of dirty money, which criminal strive to launder with the aim to make their illicit funds appear legitimate.
The global economy loses $3.6 trillion to corruption each year, says U.N (2018)
