Financial Services

We bring industry-leading operating expertise to address our clients’ most urgent needs for accelerating banking and finance business transformation. Senior, on-site teams develop practical solutions and deliver high-impact, rapid results in originations/onboarding, servicing, collections, credit risk, IT and general and administrative expenses. Our implementation strategies combine levers of adaptive organisation, lean improvement, technology enablement and advanced analytics for future-ready change.

We take an expert-led pragmatic approach towards creating innovative and bespoke financial crime solutions for our clients. Our prime objective is to get to the heart of your organisation’s concerns and design the right solutions to your problems — leveraging technology, industry best practices and our vast experience working with regulators around the world.

Genuine Financial Crime Insights
We draw FTI Consulting’s experiences from a variety of different sources including public and private sectors, regulators and expert industry bodies to deliver innovative, pragmatic and effective solutions tailored to our clients’ needs. This means that we bring unparalleled industry insights from across the financial crime universe to help you address your organisation’s specific needs.

World-Leading Expertise Across New Technologies in Financial Crime
Our team has led the most prominent global studies into new technologies in financial crime, granting us unparalleled insight into industry trends. Our team spans experts in virtual assets and cryptocurrencies, technology-enabled fraud typologies and more. In addition, our leading technology teams (including a dedicated financial crime data and analytics team) support clients in building innovative solutions to critical problems.

Unparalleled Ecosystem-Wide Expertise
We are the only team to have supported or led the design of multiple public-private partnerships and industry utilities in the financial crime space — including commercially driven utilities, multiparty responses to crises and building strategic solutions to economic crime on a national scale.

The FTI Consulting forensic investigations team specialises in foreign corruption investigations and risk assessments, investigative due diligence, litigation intelligence and other internal and external fact-gathering efforts. Our forensic specialists provide investigative fact-gathering services for senior managers, lawyers and in-house legal teams engaged in internal investigations, complex commercial litigation, and corporate and regulatory proceedings.

Our services include:

• Investigating whistle-blower allegations
• Asset tracing
• Fraud and financial investigations
• Market abuse investigations
• Anti-bribery and foreign corruption investigations
• Political risk assessments
• Third-party integrity and vendor screening services
• E-discovery on structured and unstructured data
• Assurance mapping and assurance quality reviews
• Accounting advisory services
• Compliance reporting

The costs of litigation, regulatory investigation, remediation and redress can be substantial in the banking sector. Our clients look to FTI Consulting for independent advice and opinions to preserve value and minimise costs in contentious situations. Our professionals, with multi-jurisdictional experience, work with in-house and external legal teams. Using quantitative modelling, forensic and discovery methodology that withstands court scrutiny, we provide comprehensive and robust opinions on conduct, reporting, valuations and critical judgements.

Our services include:

• Forensic investigations
• Support to in-house legal teams and external lawyers
• Expert opinions on valuations, accounting and professional negligence
• Financial and enterprise data analytics
• Deep dive networked intelligence gathering
• Advice and analysis relating to competition issues and market abuse
• Disputes, litigation and international arbitration support
• Advisory services on quantum and consequential loss
• Supporting professional negligence claims as investigators and experts
• Economic consultancy and statistical analysis to support dispute resolution

FTI Consulting clients face an increasingly demanding and interventionist regulatory environment. The compliance challenge, and the implications of non-compliance, are business critical issues as is embedding the level of culture change that regulators are seeking. Our leading edge experience delivered by former regulators, in-house compliance and risk professionals and experienced consultants helps our clients manage the changing regulatory landscape and minimise their regulatory risk.

Our services include:

• Regulatory and shadow regulatory investigations
• Regulatory intervention advisory and support
• Governance and culture reviews
• Conduct risk reviews
• Financial crime — anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist finance, financial sanctions, bribery and corruption, market abuse and fraud
• Asset valuations and stress testing
• Risk and capital modelling and advice
• Past business remediation and redress

In addition to specific regulatory expertise, we offer general compliance advisory services, including the following services:

• Regulatory Response: Our team of professionals is highly experienced in supporting time-sensitive post-examination Matters Requiring Attention, Supervisory Recommendations and Consent Orders.
• Compliance Staff Augmentation: We can provide interim or longer-term resources including chief compliance officer secondment, first or second line of defense compliance risk support within a line of business or staff support for compliance departments.
• Expert Witness: Our senior professionals are highly skilled at communicating findings through expert testimony in various settings including court, arbitration and mediation proceedings.

FTI Consulting’s market-leading restructuring practice advises management teams, boards, lenders and other key stakeholders on operations, liquidity, financing (including warehouse/repo and securitizations), new capital, strategic transactions, contingency planning, bankruptcy and regulatory matters. Our professionals serve as chief restructuring officers and hold other C-suite roles in interim capacities, as needed.

Applying our financial services expertise and comprehensive deal-making experience, we advise clients on how to strategize, structure, perform diligence, integrate, value and communicate around transactions. Free from audit-based conflicts or restrictions, we provide a 360-degree lens across all facets of the banking business impacted by a particular transaction.

For more than 15 years in the Middle East, FTI Consulting communications specialists have worked with financial services companies of all sizes to help them seize opportunities, manage crises, navigate market disruptions, articulate their brand, stake a competitive position and preserve their permission to operate.

Working with many of the world’s leading organisations to harness the power of communications to solve critical business problems, our services include:

• M&A communications
• Capital markets communications, including IPOs
• Corporate communications
• Public affairs
• Employee engagement and change communications
• Digital and creative communications
• Strategy consulting and research

Banks in the Middle East are facing unprecedented change as a result of regulatory and financial pressure. The result is that they must operate in a higher volume corporate transactional environment. As banks seek to reduce the size of their balance sheets and stimulate asset migration to meet risk and capital strategies, FTI Consulting assists in stimulating liquidity, valuation and transaction efficiency. We advise on complex transactions in the financial services sector, including portfolio sales, debt and funding restructuring, hive-offs and M&A. Whether representing buyers, sellers or stakeholders, we offer comprehensive financial and operational due diligence service leading to value-related advice and hands-on support.

Our services include:

• Financial and operational due diligence
• Vendor due diligence and assistance services
• Transaction tax advisory
• Fair value opinions and valuation services
• Debt restructuring advice and implementation
• Post-transaction integration and performance improvement
• Buy-side portfolio advisory services
• Sell-side portfolio advisory services
• Short-term cash and liquidity management
• Accelerated M&A