The client and mandate are explicit
Every opportunity establishes who the client is, the decision or outcome required and the role NFRisk is expected to perform.
For professional and ecosystem partners
Complementary expertise.
Explicit roles.
Commercially clean delivery.
Selective collaboration with consulting firms, specialists, regional relationship partners, technology ecosystems and implementation providers.
NFRisk can add senior financial-crime, data, payments, resilience and transformation capability to opportunities where the partner relationship is clear, the contribution is substantive and accountability remains visible to the client.
Role clarityWho leads, advises, sells and delivers
Commercial clarityIntroductions and advisory separated
IndependenceConflicts disclosed and managed
AccountabilityContribution remains visible to the client
Partnership principles
Collaboration should strengthen the client outcome without obscuring responsibility.
NFRisk is open to partner-led, jointly shaped and NFRisk-led opportunities. The operating principle is consistent: the client should understand who contributes what, who is accountable and how commercial interests affect the advice.
Expertise is substantive
NFRisk is not included solely to add a senior biography. The role must connect to actual diagnosis, requirements, client engagement, design, assurance or delivery.
Commercial components are separated
Introductions, presales contribution, advisory work, delivery and success mechanisms are agreed as distinct value components.
Independence is accurately represented
A provider-aligned or partner-aligned role is not presented as undisclosed independent client assurance.
Delivery boundaries are controlled
NFRisk accepts responsibility only for work it leads, delivers or has been explicitly contracted to assure.
Intellectual property is protected
Methodologies, templates, case evidence and profile material are used only for agreed purposes and opportunities.
Collaboration models
Different routes, with the role defined before the client engagement
Qualified introduction
A partner introduces a relevant organisation or opportunity. Any referral or origination arrangement is agreed separately from subsequent advisory work.
NFRisk as domain adviser
The partner leads the commercial relationship while NFRisk provides defined financial-crime, data, payments, resilience or assurance expertise.
Complementary capability
The parties jointly shape an offer where commercial reach, domain expertise and technology or implementation capability are genuinely complementary.
Specialist partner delivery
NFRisk leads the client engagement and brings in a specialist provider for engineering, technology, legal, regulatory or operational delivery.
Discovery, proposal or workshop
NFRisk provides a defined contribution to use-case qualification, client workshops, requirements, proposal shaping or solution challenge.
Ongoing senior advisory
A consulting or technology partner retains NFRisk for repeated opportunities, proposition development or implementation assurance.
Where NFRisk adds value
Between the client problem and the partner solution
NFRisk can help qualify whether an opportunity is real, translate the regulated environment into implementable requirements and stay involved through discovery, mobilisation and assurance.
Financial Crime TransformationTM, KYC/CDD, screening, remediation and controlsData & Control IntegrityData journeys, reconciliation, ownership and evidencePayments TransformationRequirements, schemes, suppliers, testing and readinessOperational Resilience & Delivery AssuranceDependencies, recovery, governance and programme challenge
Presales and commercial treatment
Free to the end client does not automatically mean free from NFRisk.
A partner may decide to offer discovery or initial assessment without charge. NFRisk's substantive intellectual, client-facing and reputational contribution still requires a clear arrangement.
Defined and capped
A brief introductory assessment may be contributed where commercially sensible, with the limit agreed in advance.
Advisory fee
The partner funds defined discovery, workshops, requirements, proposal development or delivery support.
Monthly access
Ongoing senior domain support across multiple propositions, opportunities or client engagements.
Separately agreed
A success or origination element may recognise material opportunity creation, but does not replace payment for substantive delivery.
Regional ecosystems
Supporting regulated transformation across CEE, SEE and the Western Balkans
NFRisk can work alongside regional relationship partners, local advisers and technology providers where international banking experience must be combined with local market access, language, regulation and delivery context.
Relevant areas include EU financial-services alignment, AML and sanctions controls, SEPA and payments modernisation, data governance, DORA and supplier dependency, AI assurance and executive transformation support.
Opportunity qualification
Questions to resolve before placing NFRisk in front of a client
What problem is the client actually trying to solve?
Who owns the client relationship and the proposed mandate?
What is NFRisk expected to contribute before and after sale?
Who provides technology, engineering and implementation?
How will fees, introductions and success elements be treated?
What may each party represent publicly and to the client?
Use of name and profile
Opportunity-specific approval is required
No partner should include Draz Ivezic, NFRisk or DQIntegrity in a proposal, capability deck, website or client representation without prior agreement covering the specific opportunity, represented role, expected contribution, commercial arrangement and wording.
Frequently asked
Partnership and ecosystem questions
What kinds of partners can work with NFRisk?
Consulting firms, independent specialists, regional relationship partners, technology providers, introducers and implementation firms where capabilities are complementary and responsibilities are explicit.
Can a partner use the NFRisk or Draz Ivezic profile in a proposal?
Only with prior opportunity-specific agreement covering the client, represented role, expected contribution, wording and commercial arrangements.
How is unpaid presales handled?
A limited initial qualification contribution may be agreed. Substantive discovery, use-case design, requirements, proposal shaping, workshops and client-facing participation are normally paid or covered by a clearly agreed commercial mechanism.
Professional collaboration
Start by making the opportunity and roles explicit.
Share the client context, proposed contribution and commercial model so that potential fit can be assessed quickly and cleanly.