Why Choose Izengard?

Izengard builds, operates and manages your Non-Financial Risk end to end environment for you - Cut Compliance Costs

Managed Services

Why is Izengard the right choice especially if you are a Startup or Struggling with Growth, Costs and Regulations?

Skills

Skill Recruitment / Retention

Izengard sources, provides training and retains with it's own unique blend of salaries and benefits people to operate your operations. Izengard is open to transferring skilled personnel from your own operations. The majority of staff are located in your own country, with oversight from Izengard Senior Management.

Regulations

Regulatory and Risk Profile Changes

Stay up to date on regulations, as your risk profile changes, so does Izengard's operations adapt. Izengard handles Horizon Scanning, identifies and escalates new/emerging risks and put's in appropriate safeguards based on the SLA and communications with your leadership

Change Management

Product / Service or Organisational Changes

Izengard's SLA is flexible and has built in adaptability to a change in circumstances. As your business grows, you may change the terms and conditions of your products or services or even introduce new ones. In addition, if you change the organisation structure or go through an M&A cycle, our system can adopt workflows, escalations, detection models, network endpoints etc

Service Level Agreements

Delivering on-going and improved outcomes

Siloed operations and SaaS vendors only deliver you a static implementation, which does not adapt. Izengard handles change and re-configures operations and systems regularly to deliver you outcomes, results based on your KPIs/KRIs and handles all the maintenance required for you.

Cost Effectiveness

Cost Effectiveness

Izengard is much more cost effective than the maintenance of siloed in-house or SaaS vendor set of solutions. In addition, cost optimisation and delivering you outcomes is a critical focus of the success of the Izengard contract and use of the streamlined automated Izengard platform.

Account Management

Responsiveness to your needs

An Izengard Account Manager is dedicated to your organisations and our operations run 24x7x365 if required. Izengard surfaces up issues, risks and work with you to resolve them according to your risk and security profile.

Still worried? Why our outcome related approach reduces your reputational, regulatory and legal risk

1. We analyze all of your operational costs across all relevant Non-Financial Risk functions.

2. We estimate cost savings for Izengard out of the box without customization.

3. We discuss customization and specific integration requirements with you.

4. We align with your KPIs and KRIs and indicate where due to the seamlessly integrated platforms these KPIs/KRIs have scope for improvement through the deployment of the Izengard platform.

5. We agree escalation hierarchies when Izengard see's risks increasing whilt we run operations so we can work rapidly together to address them?

6. We set up transparent and open billing so you know which costs are increasing?

7. We discuss staffing quality, staff transfer and/or hiring with you and agree timing for notifications, escalations and what independent actions can we take for real time events.

8. We document all of this into a contractual Service Level Agreement and put safeguards in place for you to review and approve.

9. We setup regular operations and performance reviews with you, so that issues can be addressed and performance tweaked.

10. We allocate a dedicated Account Manager for you to contact who has accountability.  In addition, outside of hours there is a 24x7x365 contact if this is a requirement inside your contract.

11. We do a professional risk assessment (to same quality as major consulting firms), to determine your overall risk areas, appetite and then discuss where we see major risks that need improved controls, improved surveillance and which KRIs/KPIs need adjusting. In this way, we jointly with you manage reputational and regulatory risk.

12. We run regular AML and other yearly training for your staff as well as send out regular updates on changes in regulations, upcoming attacks/risks and other news that may impact you. Before we do that we engage with your internal stakeholders before releasing the information.

Fintech, Payments and Digital Banking Startups - Let Izengard de-risk your organisation and provide this service for you, whilst you focus on revenue generation and growth.