We maintain the singular focus of helping financial institutions identify and mitigate sources of financial crimes risk by evaluating, implementing, and continually improving those monitoring systems. We have developed a deep subject matter expertise and deliberately built a pool of extensive business and technology skill sets, enabling us to scale to the specific needs of any project. RCI takes great pride in having contributed to numerous strategic programs at some of the world's largest banks. Our approach is to apply the lessons learned from past experiences to each new challenge. We first entered the financial crimes compliance world just prior to the crisis in 2008. At that time, most organizations placed a much lower emphasis on the importance of their compliance platform and allocated fewer resources, often combining that department with related back-office functions like legal and audit. Costs and budgets were minuscule relative to today. The change that followed was both rapid and significant, causing many institutions to struggle. We experienced that first-hand, and worked alongside our clients to navigate the vague, evolving, and usually competing requirements coming from seemingly every direction. In parallel, financial criminals and money launderers adjusted the mechanisms through which they conducted illicit activity. With each system upgrade, tuning exercise, or new implementation we learned valuable lessons that were then applied to improve the next initiative. Though the environment has mostly stabilized, new challenges lie ahead. Regulators are demanding an unprecedented amount of transparency into compliance systems, processes, and procedures. As platforms grow in size and complexity, we are expected to justify their effectiveness more clearly. That is why we guide ourselves according to three core principles: detailed documentation, complete traceability, and constant communication.