Areas of Expertise

For the past 20 years, FSVC has worked in nearly 50 countries in various regions around the world, having reached almost 34,000 participants through more than 2,200 missions. Our core work concentrates on combating money laundering and financial crimes, strengthening commercial banking systems, building capital markets, and developing central bank capabilities.

Combating Money Laundering and Financial Crime:
We have worked with government regulators and private-sector financial institutions to combat money laundering and financial crime across the globe for nearly a decade. Our volunteers have helped create systems to detect, and identify suspicious activity in the banking sector by training bank staff in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) practices, developing new legislation and regulations, and supporting new financial intelligence units.

The result is a cleaner, more transparent system that inspires confidence and encourages participation and investment in the banking sector.

Expanding Access to Finance:

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) drive job creation, competition and innovation. They serve as the primary vehicle for entrepreneurship and play an integral role in economic growth. We work with commercial banks to bring about structural reform to strengthen or adopt risk management and credit policies and procedures in line with international best practices and to develop SME lending businesses strategically.

As a result, banks are able to make more funds available, serve SMEs more efficiently and lift more citizens out of poverty.

Promoting Capital Market Development:

We have worked with business associations, governments and stock exchanges to build strong capital markets in developing and emerging market countries around the globe for more than 7 years. Our volunteers have helped implement new regulations and legislation, reduce risk, and bring management operations in line with international standards.

The results are capital markets that increase confidence, investment and bolster economic growth.

Strengthening Bank Regulation and Supervision:

Strong independent central banks, as well as supervisory and regulatory agencies capable of overseeing and enforcing compliance in banks and non-bank financial institutions, are essential to a sound banking sector. We work with supervisory and regulatory institutions to apply risk-focused supervision techniques to assess banks’ internal policies and processes to identify, measure, monitor, and control risks; and conduct transaction testing to determine a financial institution’s compliance with laws and regulations.

The result is the development of efficient, competitive banking systems.

Supporting Small Business Growth:

Across the world, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in

sustaining economic growth and creating jobs. We work at the policy level with central banks to strengthen legal, regulatory, and institutional frameworks for business and financial sector institutions, including the transparency and reliability of related judicial processes.

The result is the development of institutional frameworks that promote the sustainable growth of SMEs, thereby expanding economic opportunity.