Our consulting arm ‘ORKASH Services’ is a provider of strategy and risk consulting services to several leading international companies and financial institutions. We focus on the emerging markets of South-Asia/India and South-east Asia.
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ORKASH's unique proposition includes a highly successful model for Sustainable-Development Practices and Business Assurance that leverages risk driven mechanisms for social, cultural, environment and integrity related challenges faced by companies. This model targets the critical gaps that often create barriers to organizational resilience for international businesses operating in new or emerging markets.
We are able to provide viable and efficient mechanisms to address issues related to integrity risks, potential corrupt practices, socio-political risks, information-security risks and local security-threats within the framework of GRC.
‘ORKASH Services’ often works in high impact roles at the confluence of businesses, government, and not-for-profit organizations. ​​​​
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​We have a particularly strong track-record of providing risk-mitigation and business assurance services for the offshoring relationships of multinational companies and for the investments and the M&A activities of international financial institutions. In addition, we also have strong experience to address GRC compliance requirements of sales & distribution channels as well as vendor-supplier networks.
BUSINESS ASSURANCE
ORKAHS works with many of the world’s largest investment banks, financial institutions and Fortune 2000 companies, successfully creating assurance in their investments, M&A activities, and offshoring/vendor relationships across South-Asia/India and South-east Asia.
As an ISO 9001 certified company, we work to the ‘western-markets’ standards of compliance, quality, and best practices.
​ORKASH works to the highest standards of confidentiality in all its client relationships, and brings a primary-sources based investigative approach to all assessments and intelligence collection.
ORKASH's Business Assurance Services:
- Reputation & Integrity Due Diligence on vendors/suppliers, local partner firms, investment targets etc.
- Cyber Risk Audits & Information Loss Prevention in Offshoring Arrangements
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- Anti-corruption Compliance Audits & Fraud Prevention
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- Compliance Risk Audits of Vendors and Suppliers for GRC and ESG​
OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT
ORKASH’s ‘operational risk management’ services help our clients interpret, predict and mitigate risk factors for their business operations and their external dependencies. These risk factors can range across geopolitics, locational risks, local community risks, extremism risks etc. to political and macro-economic risks to unethical competitors/market practices.
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ORKASH has pioneered a highly successful Sustainable-Development model focused on project impacted local-communities and local stakeholders for mitigating operational-risks for mega greenfield projects and for the associated risks to financial investments in such projects.
ORKASH has emerged as a pioneer in the field of ‘operational risk management’ in the South Asian market. We maintain access to a multi-disciplinary talent pool of anthropologists, data scientists, grass-root level field-investigators and security experts, alongwith extensive networks with local agencies and officials.
ORKASH's Op Risk Management Services:
Strategic Risk Intelligence: Game Theory Based Scenario Gaming Studies & Stimulations covering a mix of geopolitical factors, grass-root locational risks & local stakeholder risks, macro economic factors, socio-political risk factors (e.g. labor, corruption, cultural behavior drivers, etc.), local community risks and security risks (e.g. terrorism or civic unrest).
Local Community & Stakeholder Risk Management for large greenfield manufacturing-projects and the associated investments of financial institutions
Locational Security Risks Assessments: Site security-threat assessments, extremist risks, supply chain risks, contingency planing, etc.