Gone are the days of backwards-looking checklists and risk assessments frozen in spreadsheets. While risk management is notoriously subjective, the ACL platform provides a more objective way of understanding and acting on risk.

ACL’s risk management software solution brings objective, data-powered risk management to life and provides that “single pane of glass” view of your risks and opportunities.

Smart risk management enables organizations to make informed decisions on good and bad risks—and to systematically remove barriers to organizational performance. Automate your risk management framework to accelerate achievement of your strategic agenda.

The ACL platform provides a visualized, data-driven way to assess and manage risk, and has revolutionized mapping and tracking of regulatory changes to minimize daily operational burden. This combination provides your board and executive teams with a simple, holistic view of your global risk management and compliance posture.

STRATEGIC RISK GOVERNANCE■■ Report on risk in one language with a unified “three lines of defense” framework.

■■ View risk in context of strategy and performance.

■■ Monitor and manage KPIs and KRIs, dynamically updated with your changing data profile.

■■ Aggregate risk and compliance assurance metrics.

OPERATIONAL RISK TREATMENT■■ Detect and prevent fraud.■■ Reduce regulatory burdens.■■ Integrate compliance management.■■ Monitor financial controls.■■ Perform risk-control self-assessments.■■ Manage issues.

ANALYTICS & MONITORING■■ Execute strategic and operational risk analytics.

■■ Perform automated risk and performance monitoring.

■■ Trigger alerts to action owners based on pre-set thresholds.

■■ Aggregate metrics and streamline reporting.

ACL Solution for Risk Management

MAKE BETTER DECISIONS ACROSS THE ORGANIZATION WITH RISK IN MIND

Software to help you reveal insights from complex data, make better decisions to balance risk and return, and accelerate performance.

Figure 1: From easy, one-click reports that show risk assurance of your master process-risk-control library to BI report-building with dashboards,

metrics, and custom fields and formats.

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ACHIEVE GREAT ROI WITH ACL

402% return on investment

$1.6M net present value

50% avoidable risks reduced

2 full-time employees reallocated to

under-resourced areas

Source: Forrester. “The Total Economic Impact of the ACL Platform.”

With ACL, we can easily create an objective picture of our combined risk and compliance assurance. We can thoroughly understand our own performance and the obstacles we’re facing—all informed by our own transactional data.

Rod Verhulp, VP of Finance Equinix

HIGHLIGHTED FEATURES

RISK ASSESSMENT WORKSHOPS

Managers tasked with evaluating key risks based on executive management, board, or operational leadership feedback can conduct risk assessment voting workshops within the ACL platform, each informed by qualitative analysis and a real-time view of KPIs and KRIs.

RISK TREATMENTThe ACL platform lets you link strategic risks to treatments, prioritized based on risk appetite and impact. Track risk assurance and testing results to develop a dashboard of risk and mitigation project outcomes—helping you ensure complete coverage of all your identified risks.

RISK ANALYTICS & ASSESSMENT DRIVERSKRIs that provide predictive signals on what is likely to happen enable organizations to navigate towards success more reliably. The ACL platform is able to not only provide those KRIs by monitoring unlimited data populations, but also to employ the KRIs to drive strategic risk management processes and deliver leadership-level risk heat maps in real time.

With true analytics-driven risk assessments based on your organization’s data, you’ll know the exact state of risk at any time—without needing to compile various reports and updates—enabling your management and board to make faster, risk-quantified decisions.

“SINGLE PANE OF GLASS” REPORTINGRisk reporting in the ACL platform provides a unified view, so you can deliver an aggregated metric of risk and compliance assurance to your stakeholders. Get everyone—and all your risk and performance insight—on the same page to better navigate risk and achieve objectives.

Our software equips both risk leaders and the front line to make better decisions with risk in mind. The ACL platform automates mission-critical risk and performance monitoring tasks, and enables front-line operations to manage controls and remediate issues. This means automated operational governance and real-time insight for all risk decision makers.

REGULATOR READINESSThe regulators are coming! How do you lighten the weight of compliance pressures while still addressing regulatory requirements?

Get your compliance house in order before your regulator comes knocking. Easily manage your obligations in one place to confidently prepare for your next regulatory exam.

Figure 2: Conduct risk assessment voting workshops.

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