Nicole Costaldo

Nicole Costaldo is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Data & Analytics practice, based in New York. Ms. Costaldo provides advisory services by helping private and public organizations use advanced analytic techniques to unlock value from their data. She quickly gets up to speed and navigates complex technical infrastructures to identify key systems, assess data quality and construct analytical models to solve various business challenges and quickly report and visualize data complexities and summary findings. Her expertise derives from her educational background, professional networks and tactical involvement in data-related assessments and internal and external investigations of large-scale financial crimes, including anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act violations.

As a data and analytics expert, Ms. Costaldo is industry and system-agnostic. However, historically, she has applied advanced analytic techniques to support trustees, receiverships, regulatory officials, and executives in unraveling some of the largest financial crimes in history. She has supported monitorships and organizations conducting risk-based assessments of their systems and data relied upon by compliance programs. Most recently, she designed frameworks for using data and analytics in a fraud monitoring program and to consistently and continuously identify records in response to regulatory subpoenas. Ms. Costaldo has managed both domestic and international teams, some of which required analyzing billions of records and complex analytic tools like natural language processing, networking analytics and transfer mapping.

Ms. Costaldo’s educational background and historic work experience provide her clients with a systematic and process-driven approach to identifying the critical role business systems play in organizations’ daily operations, as well as highlighting the importance of data quality and implementing continuous monitoring to assess and measure risk.

During her time at FTI Consulting, Ms. Costaldo was a part of the project teams awarded FTI Consulting’s Outstanding Client Service award in 2015 and 2020. In 2018, she was nominated for Consulting Magazine’s Annual Rising Stars Awards. In 2025, Ms. Costaldo was honored and recognized by Consulting Magazine in the category of Future Women Leaders.

Ms. Costaldo holds a B.A. from Miami University of Ohio in Management Information Systems. Ms. Costaldo also studied applied data science through a Columbia Engineering certificate program in 2019. Ms. Costaldo stays abreast of industry expertise through market research, her consultative experience and attending educational and industry-specific conferences.

Relevant Experience:

• Frequently designs independent technology-based assessment and lookback methodologies to assess BSA/AML Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) compliance programs at large-scale and multi-national financial institutions and financial technology firms
• Led the data and analytics methodology to assess the underlying systems and technology relied upon in BSA/AML, Sanctions, and Consumer Protection compliance programs at large multi-national financial institutions, Foreign Financial Institutions, and Financial Technology Firms, including Transaction Monitoring systems, Transaction Filtering systems, Name List Screening, Financial Crimes Risk Assessments, as well as bespoke models relying on Artificial Intelligence
• Led the data and analytics methodology to identify, automate, and analyze the data required for multiple regulatory inquiries and ultimately unravel a $500M Fentanyl money laundering scheme
• Led the data and analytics strategy and tooling to conduct a lookback over billions of transactions to investigate potential money laundering violations in the Baltics
• Led the assessment of a large multi-national financial institutions enterprise data management and transformation program

Awards & Recognition:

• Outstanding Client Service Award, FTI Consulting (2018 and 2015)
• Future Women Leader, Consulting Magazine (2025)