Last month our CEO Rob Evans announced a series of changes at FINTRAIL. In my totally unbiased view, one of the most exciting is the formation of our new business area Insights and Research. In some senses, this is nothing new - FINTRAIL already produces content pieces, analysis and research for our clients including white papers, best practice guidance, market entry support, and due diligence and intelligence reports. Yet the creation of this team will enable us to do so much more - diversifying the products and services we can offer, highlighting the value our information and analysis can bring, and expanding the team to ensure an even broader range of expertise and knowledge.
One particularly exciting development is our intention to produce more multimedia content, both to spread the good word of FINTRAIL and on behalf of clients. While we’ll still be putting out blogs, articles and white papers, be prepared to see more explainer videos, stand-alone podcast episodes and audio content, and projects with collaborators to deliver quality content on financial crime topics.
In line with FINTRAIL’s desire to support businesses of all stages and sizes, Insights and Research intends to branch into new territory by offering practical, actionable intel in the form of off-the-shelf reports. These will cover topics such as financial crime market entry support, country risk rating products and regulatory overviews, which can add immediate value to companies that are getting started, refining their programme, or developing expansion plans. We want to ensure our insights are not only available to those with the scale and budget to commission dedicated projects, and that we find a way to provide support to all parts of the innovative financial services ecosystem.
We will also be playing a major part in FINTRAIL’s campaigns to support the fincrime community and make a meaningful societal difference. Over the course of the next year this will mean an emphasis on education, raising awareness to protect vulnerable segments of society at risk of being caught up in financial crime including fraud and money muling. Watch this space for further announcements on FINTRAIL and FFE initiatives in this area. We’ll also be continuing our work to promote diversity and inclusion within the financial crime space, and to ensure fincrime controls do not inadvertently create exclusion.
So to wrap up - 2022 is shaping up to be a hugely exciting year and I can’t wait to bring all this to life! We’ve started recruiting and are speaking to potential candidates with super interesting and varied backgrounds (details of open roles here), and it’s been extremely rewarding to see the genuine enthusiasm and excitement they have about where we could take the team. I’m also already having some brilliant conversations with companies who are interested in exploring these offerings, and we have some great projects in the pipeline. If you are interested in learning more and exploring how we can work with you and your firm to produce fincrime content or support your business with research and analysis, please do get in touch!
If you would like to speak to FINTRAIL about this article, please contact Maya Braine, Managing Director at maya.braine@fintrail.com.