Mitigating Fraud Risk for an Expanding U.S. Company
FTI Consulting strengthened procure-to-pay controls for a U.S.-based company facing kickback allegations, reducing fraud risk and boosting compliance.
Risk & Compliance
Financial Crime Compliance
We help organizations prevent, detect and respond to financial crime with deep compliance expertise, advanced technology and sustainable risk management solutions.
Organizations today face an ever-evolving financial crime landscape marked by increasingly sophisticated money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions evasion and fraud schemes coming from both inside and outside their walls, as well as rising regulatory scrutiny and skyrocketing compliance costs.
By optimizing, automating and using technology-driven workflows, companies can sharpen their defenses and improve financial crime compliance (“FCC”) while also controlling costs and scaling operations.
We help global financial institutions, fintechs, corporations and law firms navigate heightened regulatory scrutiny and operational risk.
Our experts combine financial, regulatory, forensic and data-driven insights and experiences to help clients meet rising expectations from regulators and stakeholders, while also building sustainable programs that prevent misconduct and preserve integrity.
Led by senior practitioners with experience managing complex global compliance programs and sensitive compliance transformations, our teams deliver pragmatic, technology-enabled solutions across the AML, sanctions, anti-bribery, fraud prevention and governance domains.
Together, we work with our clients to:
Strengthen AML, sanctions and fraud risk programs
Design and optimize anti-bribery and corruption controls
Integrate RegTech and AI to enhance compliance efficiency
Conduct independent reviews and regulator-mandated assessments
Build governance frameworks that ensure long-term compliance success
Our solutions
Tech-enabled, cost-effective and sustainable solutions to mitigate FCC risk
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Anti-Money Laundering Compliance
Build programs that balance effectiveness with efficiency. We help clients design, enhance and scale holistic financial-crime frameworks — optimizing controls, operating models and technology so programs remain sustainable, cost-efficient and aligned with regulatory expectations.
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Economic Sanctions
Reduce exposure to rapidly changing global sanctions regimes. We design, implement and validate sanctions programs — including screening model tuning, cross-border risk assessments, remediation, and technology optimization — to help clients meet and navigate complex international regulatory expectations and respond effectively when compliance failures occur.
Anti-Bribery Corruption Advisory
Protect operations from bribery and corruption exposure across global markets. We design risk-based compliance programs, conduct anti-bribery and corruption (“ABC”) risk and geopolitical assessments, evaluate third-party relationships and deliver targeted training — grounded in local regulatory expectations and experience with complex cross-border enforcement matters.
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Fraud Risk Management
Build a smarter, more resilient fraud function across all lines of defense. We design and enhance fraud risk programs, perform targeted assessments, re-imagine operating models, develop response plans, and deploy scenario analytics, AI and automation to detect emerging threats — integrating fraud, financial crime and cyber intelligence across business units and geographies.
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Digital Transformation & RegTech
Modernize financial crime compliance with integrated data and technology solutions. We support platform implementation, enhance detection and monitoring models, improve data quality, and deploy AI, robotics and advanced analytics — enabling more effective oversight, optimized workflows and lower compliance costs.
Our Impact
Client Outcomes
Our Insights
Expert Perspectives
Our Experts
A trusted advisor with deep subject matter expertise
Our practitioners and subject matter experts have experience designing, implementing and managing complex FCC programmes at tier-one banks and other organizations, often under direct regulatory scrutiny.
Stella M. Mendes
Senior Managing Director, Global Leader of Financial Services
Alma Angotti
Senior Managing Director
Nicole Costaldo
Senior Managing Director
Breck Heidlberg
Managing Director
Ellen Hewitt
Senior Managing Director
Keenan Mahoney
Senior Managing Director
Andrew McCarthy
Senior Managing Director
Jaco Sadie
Senior Managing Director
Scott A. Sizemore
Senior Managing Director
