Financial Services
The Hidden Risk Inside Your Institution
It’s not your systems. It’s your people.
Insider threats are the fastest-growing danger in finance - and criminals are exploiting them every day. At Vaillance Group, we are former U.S. intelligence officers who have run covert finance operations, posed undercover as money launderers, and recruited clandestine sources all over the world.
We’ve conducted the same types of operations threatening your institution today.
Now, we stop them.
BANKS ARE NOW IN THE NATIONAL SECURITY CROSSHAIRS
U.S. law enforcement has been directed by the President to seize cartel money inside American banks - using counterterrorism authorities - and regulatory penalties have already risen 522%. 1
That means your AML controls aren’t just compliance tools anymore. They’re now part of a national security mandate.
But cartels haven’t abandoned U.S. banks. The DEA confirmed in 2025 that banks still remain the #1 target for cartel-linked laundering. 2
THE REALITY OF RISK SPENDING
Only 16.5% of security budgets are allocated to insider threats.
Meanwhile - 83.5% is spent defending against external threats.
WHY VAILLANCE
Our team has advised national security agencies, Fortune 500s, nations, global banks, and high-risk fintechs on how to defeat human-driven fraud without killing business.
Why Financial Institutions Trust Vaillance Group
Vaillance Group brings rare, real-world experience that most consultancies simply cannot match.
We have:
Recruited and assessed vulnerable insiders in intelligence operations
Built insider threat and human risk programs inside complex global corporations
Conducted high-stakes investigations involving fraud, data theft, sabotage, and misconduct
Sat across the table from malicious insiders—not just reviewed logs after the damage
This is insider risk as it actually happens—not as it looks on a compliance slide.
We’ve laundered money
LEGALLY
We’ve recruited insiders
STRATEGICALLY
We don’t peddle fear.
We expose blind spots.
AND FIX THEM
OUR 4-PHASE HUMAN RISK STRATEGY
Designed for Regulatory Reality
Our work supports—not undermines—your compliance obligations.
We help institutions strengthen controls related to:
Insider fraud and misconduct
Money Laundering
Data protection and privacy
Market abuse and conflicts of interest
Third-party and vendor risk
Regulatory scrutiny and audit readiness
All while preserving trust, discretion, and organizational stability.
Family Offices
Family offices face a unique threat landscape.
Not just cyber criminals or state actors, but those with proximity, access, and trust: household staff, advisors, vendors, personal assistants, security teams, partners, and even extended family members.
THE HUMAN SIDE OF FAMILY RISK
High-Net-Worth Families Face a Different Class of Insider Threat
• Staff with unfettered access to homes, devices, conversations, and routines
• Advisors handling wealth transfers, trusts, digital accounts, and private investments
• Domestic employees managing schedules, travel, and sensitive family details
• Children and partners targeted through social engineering, AI deepfakes, and digital compromise
• Remote service providers with access to networks, cameras, and personal data
And today, adversaries—including organized crime and foreign intelligence services—are exploiting AI-enabled impersonation, digital exhaustion, and trust gaps at unprecedented scale.
WHY VAILLANCE
At Vaillance Group, we are former U.S. operations officers who have run clandestine and covert operations, recruited insiders, and dismantled human-driven threats across the world.
We’ve seen firsthand how adversaries infiltrate close circles—and how families become targets long before
institutions do.
Now, we protect family offices from the vulnerabilities they can’t see.
Our team has advised national security agencies, Fortune 500s, nations, global banks, and high-risk fintechs on how to defeat human-driven fraud without killing business.
Insider threat is a rising, overlooked risk for high-net-worth families.
93% of successful attacks start with phishing.
57% of North American family offices have been attacked.
62% of family offices with over US$1B AUM report cyber incidents.
43% were attacked in the last 2 years; 25% of those were hit 3+ times.
1 in 3 family offices has suffered financial or operational damage from a cyberattack.