Our work is shaped around the requirements of each assignment. From focused advisory work and investigations to longer engagements providing technical assistance and assessment support.
Clients work directly with GREX Strategies throughout. Where additional expertise is required, we bring together specialists suited to the assignment while remaining directly engaged in the work.
GREX Strategies works with governments, regulators, financial institutions and specialist partners on sanctions, FATF and FSRB assessment preparation, proliferation financing, financial crime and export controls. our work includes policy and regulatory advice, risk assessments, investigations, supervisory frameworks, implementation support and training.
Our focus is practical: helping clients understand what is required, identify weaknesses, and develop measures that are workable, defensible and appropriate to their circumstances.
We support governments, competent authorities and other institutions preparing for FATF and FSRB assessments and strengthening AML/CFT/CPF frameworks.
Support can include:
Mutual evaluation preparation, gap analysis and remediation
Technical compliance, effectiveness and evidence development
Proliferation financing, TFS and risk assessments
Supervisory frameworks, guidance and implementation support
Engagements may focus on specific Recommendations or Immediate Outcomes, form part of broader assessment preparation, or support follow-up and remediation after an evaluation.
GREX Strategies advises on the interpretation, implementation and enforcement of UN, EU, US and UK sanctions and related export control measures.
Work can include:
Asset freezes, ownership and control, designations and licensing
Screening, escalation and implementation frameworks
Sanctions evasion, circumvention and investigative work
Policy, regulatory and tailored advice
Our approach draws on experience spanning policy design, national implementation and enforcement, multilateral negotiations and financial sector advisory.
We advise banks and other financial institutions on complex sanctions, proliferation financing, targeted financial sanctions and related financial crime issues.
Support can include:
Complex transactions, customers, securities and sanctions exposure
Reviews of sanctions, TFS and escalation controls
PF and sanctions risk assessments, typologies and remediation
Regulatory engagement and targeted training
Work is tailored to the institution, the relevant legislation and the issue requiring resolution.
GREX Strategies provides specialist training and works with consulting firms, technical assistance providers and other professional teams where sanctions, FATF, PF or related expertise is required.
This can include:
Training for governments, regulators and financial institutions
FATF, PF- and TF-TFS sanctions and export control workshops
Specialist input into wider consulting and technical assistance projects
Participation in multidisciplinary reviews, investigations and assessment teams
Collaboration can range from a discrete specialist contribution to a larger project led or coordinated by GREX Strategies.