FTI Consulting, Inc. announced the appointment of Rod Francis as a Senior Managing Director in the forensic & litigation consulting segment, where he will lead the firm’s newly created financial crime compliance offering in Asia. Mr. Francis will be based in Hong Kong.
Mr. Francis, who brings more than 30 years of compliance experience within financial institutions, joins FTI Consulting from Citibank, where he was the Asia Pacific Regional Head of anti-money laundering compliance, with additional responsibilities covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa for the global consumer bank.
At FTI Consulting, Mr. Francis will enhance the firm’s existing financial crime compliance capabilities by helping global, regional and local banks and non-bank financial institutions navigate the increasingly heightened global regulatory environment. The new Asia offering will provide end-to-end anti-money laundering, sanctions and anti-corruption consulting services, including program design, implementation and complex investigations and remediation tasks. In addition, the offering will complement FTI Consulting’s U.S. and UK offerings, ensuring the firm’s ability to deliver advisory services to clients in major financial centers around the world.
At Citibank, Mr. Francis focused on coordination and implementation of program change requirements in response to U.S. regulatory obligations and commitments under three U.S. consent orders. He built a compliance team of more than 400 professionals to meet the delivery demands of those orders, and he helped improve the overall quality of the anti-money laundering, sanctions and anti-bribery and anti-corruption programs across business sectors and regions.