The integrity layer
for carbon markets
and corporate supply chains
Forge assesses financial crime and integrity risk across suppliers, counterparties and carbon programmes, wherever they sit. One methodology, the Financial Crime and Integrity Risk Assessment (FCRA), applied at a level that is proportionate to the risk.
De-risking carbon
The problem: the same failure, two different bills
Corporates. The UK now has three failure to prevent offences: bribery, the facilitation of tax evasion and, since September 2025, fraud, which applies to large organisations. A company can be liable for what its associated persons do: agents, intermediaries and others who perform services for it or on its behalf, which can include suppliers. The fines are unlimited. The defence is to show that prevention procedures were in place: "adequate procedures" for bribery, "reasonable procedures" for tax evasion and fraud. From December 2027 the EU goes further: any product made with forced labour anywhere in its supply chain will be barred from the EU market, with no turnover threshold.
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Carbon. Additionality and technical verification are covered by the existing standards. What they do not assess is who is behind the counterparty: who owns it and who controls it. Institutional capital will not deploy at scale without an integrity layer it can stand behind.
Different markets, the same question: who is behind the counterparty. That is what Forge assesses.
What you will achieve
Understand the legal link
Learn how forced labour is treated as criminal property under money laundering laws, including key recent UK court decisions.
Spot Red Flags
Identify high-risk indicators in supply chains, recruitment processes, and labour conditions that may signal forced labour.
Build Integrated Frameworks
Develop due diligence and risk management systems that address both anti-money laundering and modern slavery compliance.
Protect Your Organisation
Avoid legal exposure, financial penalties, and reputational damage by strengthening detection and response mechanisms.
Enhance Training
and Reporting
Create effective internal training, safe reporting channels, and escalation procedures to handle forced labour concerns.
The FCRA
The FCRA is a methodology built on more than twenty years of financial crime practice. It assesses any counterparty across eight financial crime categories, from bribery, fraud and tax evasion to sanctions, human rights and forced labour, with the depth of each assessment set by the level of risk presented.
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Counterparties are screened against sanctions, PEPs, adverse media and enforcement data, ownership is traced to natural persons, and the framework is mapped to ICVCM, Verra, Gold Standard, CORSIA and Article 6.2. It complements the carbon standards.
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Every assessment reports two things separately: the assurance level, which sets how deep the work goes and is fixed before it starts, and the integrity risk rating, which is the result.
What we do
Advisory
Financial crime risk assessments, failure to prevent procedures, third-party diligence policy, counterparty due diligence on instruction and origination support, with access to counsel in financial crime, including King's Counsel.
TIRA: Third-Party Integrity Risk Assessment
The FCRA applied to corporate suppliers, clients and counterparties. Also built for charitable foundations: independent, legally led due diligence on grantees, partners, intermediaries and donors, designed for the jurisdictions where standard list screening is thin.
CORA: Carbon Oversight and Risk Assessment
The FCRA applied to carbon projects, developers, brokers and registries, from the development phase through issuance, with an annual integrity statement to keep the assessment current.
IWA: Insured Wrapped Assurance
A CORA-assessed carbon credit with insurance from a specialist carbon insurer. Credits are first assessed and insurance-ready, with indicative terms available. Cover is bound only once a buyer and a transaction are confirmed. This product is in development.
