Skip to main content

Loading component...

Loading component...

Your challenges, our priorities

Financial institutions are operating in an environment defined by regulatory uncertainty, economic volatility, accelerating technology change, and rising expectations from boards, customers, and supervisors. Growth must be disciplined. Risk must be visible. Performance must be defensible.

 

Leaders across financial services are balancing modernization with control, cost pressure with resilience, and innovation with compliance. The challenge is not identifying what needs to change. It is executing transformation in a way that strengthens the enterprise rather than adding complexity. 

Managing regulatory intensity

Supervisory expectations continue to evolve across jurisdictions while threats grow in scale and sophistication. Institutions must strengthen governance, modernize surveillance and monitoring, and maintain scalable control environments that stand up to scrutiny.

Balancing growth with risk discipline

Boards and regulators expect profitable growth while maintaining financial discipline and operational resilience.

Containing costs in a margin-constrained environment

Persistent margin pressure, continuing compliance costs, and ongoing technology investments strain operating models. Institutions must reduce complexity, improve productivity, and create sustainable efficiency without weakening controls.

Modernizing platforms, data, and operating models

Legacy systems and fragmented data limit insight and impede execution. Institutions face pressure to modernize enterprise platforms, enable intelligent automation, and strengthen data governance.

Executing transformation in high-stakes environments

Large-scale change initiatives often unfold under regulatory oversight. Leaders must deliver measurable results while aligning stakeholders, managing talent impacts, and sustaining day-to-day performance.

Article

Building a scalable fraud framework for a more complex risk environment

 

Fraud threats are evolving faster than legacy controls can keep up. Financial institutions need scalable frameworks that align governance, data, surveillance, and investigative workflows to reduce risk without overwhelming operations. This insight outlines practical steps to modernize fraud programs and strengthen oversight in high-volume environments.

Expertise built to deliver results 

Financial services organizations need solutions that address risk, performance, technology, and people together, not in isolation. We bring integrated expertise across regulatory compliance, financial crimes, finance transformation, digital enablement, operational improvement, and strategic growth to help institutions move forward with clarity and control.

Why financial services leaders choose Huron

Financial institutions need partners who understand both the regulatory environment and the operational pressures they face. We bring deep functional expertise and hands-on execution experience across risk, compliance, finance, technology, and operations to help leaders move from strategy to sustained results.

 

Our approach combines practical insight with disciplined implementation. We work alongside your teams to strengthen governance, modernize systems, improve performance, and embed change that stands up to scrutiny and endures over time. 

Integrated expertise across risk, finance, operations, and technology

Financial services challenges rarely sit in one function. We bring together deep expertise across risk management, compliance, finance, internal audit, operations, and enterprise platforms to address interconnected issues with a coordinated approach.

Execution in highly regulated environments

We understand the realities of regulatory scrutiny, board oversight, and supervisory expectations. Our teams design solutions that stand up to review and work in practice, not just on paper.

Strategy aligned with implementation

We move beyond recommendations. From transformation roadmaps to system enablement and managed services, we work alongside your teams to implement change and drive measurable improvement.

Practical modernization

We help institutions modernize data, platforms, and operating models with discipline. Our approach balances innovation with governance, enabling progress without increasing exposure.

Focus on sustainable performance

We help leadership teams strengthen financial and operational performance while reinforcing control environments. The result is growth that is disciplined, resilient, and defensible.

Our process drives real results

We help financial institutions move from strategy to sustained results through a disciplined, practical process.

Markets we serve

We support a broad range of financial services organizations, from global institutions to emerging market participants, as well as the regulators and partners that shape the industry.

 

  • Global financial institutions
  • Investment banks
  • Retail banks
  • Commercial banks
  • Credit unions
  • Foreign banking organizations (FBO)
  • Card and payment providers
  • Money servicing businesses
  • Fintechs and banking-as-a-service
  • Crypto and DeFi providers
  • Asset managers, broker-dealers, and hedge funds
  • Life insurance and annuities
  • P&C insurance  
  • Specialty insurance
  • Private equity firms
  • Residential mortgage providers and servicers
  • Commercial real estate lenders
  • Law firm partners and clients
  • Financial industry utilities
  • Regulators and government agencies
ndustry_financial-services-markets-we-serve-body-1000x1000.jpg

Technology orchestrated to unify and automate 

Through deep partnerships with Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, and other leading vendors, we architect ecosystems to support your strategy, operations, people, and future growth.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions 

Customer relationship management (CRM) solutions 

Enterprise performance management (EPM) systems and solutions 

Human capital management (HCM) systems and solutions

Strategic partnerships

View all partners >

Insights and client impact

insights-keybank-relationships-oracle-financial-services-analytics-1600x900.jpg
Digital|Financial Services|Financial Services

From compliance to differentiation: Rethinking surveillance in financial services

Financial institutions are transforming surveillance from a compliance obligation into a strategic differentiator by integrating data, applying behavioral analytics, and leveraging AI to proactively detect risk and strengthen trust.
Business Operations|Education & Research

Enterprise Risk Management

Effective enterprise risk management involves the comprehensive evaluation of interconnected risks across an institution.
Artificial Intelligence|Digital|Financial Services

How financial institutions can outsource testing to unlock value

Learn how financial institutions are co-sourcing and outsourcing testing to manage risk, cut costs, and scale using AI-driven models.
Digital|Financial Services

Transforming financial operations with ERP and EPM at a leading insurance firm

An insurance organization partnered with Huron to modernize its ERP and enterprise risk management environment. By aligning systems, processes, and governance, the firm improved reporting accuracy, enhanced risk visibility, and created a more integrated, scalable financial operations model to support long-term growth.
Financial Services

Fraud alert backlogs: How to clear out the clutter

Financial institutions facing growing fraud alert volumes often struggle with backlogs, false positives, and operational strain. This insight outlines practical steps to triage alerts, optimize investigative workflows, and strengthen governance, helping organizations reduce exposure while improving efficiency and oversight.

Our team is excited and ready to connect with you. 

Reach out to learn how Huron can help you navigate your financial services transformation.

Loading component...

Speak with a financial services expert

We understand that the challenges financial services leaders face require more than advice. We bring regulatory insight, operational experience, and disciplined execution. Huron’s financial services team works with our clients to navigate complexity and drive change that stands up to scrutiny.

 

Talk to us about:

  • Strengthening risk management, compliance, and control environments
  • Modernizing finance, core platforms, and data infrastructure
  • Enhancing fraud prevention, surveillance, and financial crimes programs
  • Improving operational efficiency while maintaining regulatory discipline
  • Executing mergers, integrations, and large-scale transformation initiatives 
John Arvanitis

John Arvanitis

Managing Director

,

Financial Institutions Advisory

John brings more than 35 years of experience in financial crimes and fraud compliance, helping global organizations address complex anti-money laundering, fraud, and regulatory challenges to develop and implement effective compliance and risk management programs.
Joseph-Prunty

Joseph Prunty

Managing Director

,

Digital, Oracle

Joseph has more than 35 years of experience helping banking, insurance, and capital markets organizations implement digital, finance, and strategy transformation to grow income, manage costs, and prepare for the future.
Tyler Lampenkamp

Tyler Langenkamp

Managing Director

,

Financial Crimes and Fraud

Tyler has more than 25 years of experience helping organizations in financial services and other industries to mitigate risks such as financial crime by harnessing data, developing compliance programs, and bridging the gap between business and technology.
Jenny-Wei

Jenny Wei

Managing Director

,

Financial Institutions Advisory

Jenny has more than 25 years of experience advising global financial institutions on a wide range of internal audit and regulatory matters, including enterprise risk management, regulatory compliance, corporate compliance, operations, and independent regulatory remediation validation, as well as compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/anti-money laundering (AML), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act, and Japanese SOX (J-SOX).
Andrew Surgan

Andrew Surgan

Managing Director

,

Compliance and Risk

Andrew has more than 30 years of experience in regulatory compliance helping broker-dealer, investment adviser, asset management, and investment banking organizations enhance and streamline their compliance programs to meet complex regulatory requirements and expectations.
bobbie-paul

Bobbie Paul

Managing Director

,

Fraud

Bobbie has more than 20 years of financial crimes experience, helping diverse financial services companies build and transform their risk and compliance programs to reduce losses, improve efficiency, and meet regulatory requirements.