FTI Consulting Expands Global Financial Services Practice with Key Hires and Leadership Appointments
FTI Consulting is strengthening its global financial services practice with 15 new senior leaders and dual practice leadership appointments to help financial institutions navigate evolving regulations, technological risks, and geopolitical challenges.
FTI Consulting, Inc. continues to reinforce its leading cross-segment global Financial Services practice by adding 15 new Senior Managing Directors and Managing Directors in 2025 and naming Stella Mendes and Jean-Werner de T'Serclaes as Global Practice Leaders. This expansion comes as financial institutions face increasingly complex challenges ranging from regulatory compliance to technological disruptions.
The Financial Services practice brings together more than 200 financial services professionals who partner with clients across diverse issues, from high-stakes risk, performance issues and restructuring challenges to growth and transformation opportunities. Ms. Mendes leads the Company's financial services regulatory and compliance offerings globally, while Mr. de T'Serclaes leads the business transformation offerings for financial services clients.
The multidisciplinary team includes highly respected bankers, restructuring and turnaround professionals, specialists in business transformation, forensic specialists, CPAs, CFAs, attorneys, economists, technology professionals, strategic communications experts, former operators, policymakers, and former bank and securities regulators. Consultants also have expertise in helping clients comply with Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulations.
Recent additions to the practice in 2025 include Senior Managing Directors Alma Angotti, Chris Allen, Michael Herde, Michael Peters and Julien Wallen, strengthening the firm's ability to address evolving market challenges. Financial institutions are navigating rapidly evolving regulations, sophisticated criminal activity and economic uncertainty, according to Ms. Mendes.
A 2024 Economist Impact study sponsored by FTI Consulting found that 29% of financial services general counsel believed regulatory and compliance crisis events posed the greatest risk to their business. The same amount believed that technology crisis events, such as unforeseen effects from the use of AI or data failures, posed the greatest risk, followed by operational crisis events such as equipment or systems breakdowns, logistical delays or labor shortages (28%).
Mr. de T'Serclaes noted that seismic geopolitical shifts in 2025 will continue to present opportunities for financial services leaders as they assess risks and seize innovations to stay ahead of the competition. The multidisciplinary financial services team at FTI Consulting leverages a diverse group of industry experts to help clients identify and maximize growth opportunities. More information about the firm's offerings can be found at https://www.fticonsulting.com.