Payments

Mr. Walters helps financial services clients navigate complex risk, financial crime and regulatory compliance issues, transforming their capabilities in the face of change. Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Walters led the compliance function at Barclays. He covered all compliance risks globally, including suitability, conflicts of interest, cross-border, whistleblowing, data privacy, anti-money laundering, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption and personal account dealing. He led 1,300 professionals across 40 countries and was accountable for investigating alleged breaches of Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), EU and His Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”) sanctions and ensuring the bank’s compliance with the resultant Deferred Prosecution Agreement.

Ms. Kostus has more than 12 years of financial services experience across the UK, Middle East and Europe. She advises banks, private wealth and asset managers, money service businesses and gaming operators on regulatory reviews, remediation and financial crime frameworks. Her experience includes serving as a Special Advisor on Financial Crime at a European bank, undertaking interim specialist roles and leading Skilled Person reviews. She also has significant experience in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing programmes, risk assessments and customer due diligence enhancements.

Mr. Wallen leads FTI Consulting’s Financial Services Corporate Finance practice in EMEA and brings 25 years of consulting and industry experience, including more than a decade at BlackRock. He works with banks, payment firms, nonbank financial institutions and supervisors on prudential regulatory remediation, risk and balance sheet management and transactions. His experience also includes supporting ECB Eurozone-wide stress tests and remediating supervisory findings for UK, EU and Switzerland supervised banks.

Mr. Doyle is Head of Financial Services within FTI Consulting’s Strategic Communications practice. His international career spans London, Dubai and Hong Kong, where he has advised on financial and corporate communications, capital markets transactions and domestic and cross-border reputation challenges. Before joining FTI Consulting, he was a Director at Capital MS&L, now Kekst CNC, where he also served as Managing Director and Head of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Dubai. Earlier roles included Citigate Dewe Rogerson and Gavin Anderson & Company in Hong Kong.

Mr. Brooks has more than 15 years of experience applying economic, financial and strategic analysis to regulatory and competition issues. He supports businesses in their engagement with governments and regulators and has recently led work for a major payment systems operator through a complex multi-year regulatory market review. As well as payments, he has experience in digital platforms, energy markets, healthcare economics and airports. He has a background in preparing expert witness evidence for litigation and arbitration matters and is a CFA charterholder.