Nick Hourigan

Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting

Speaker

Nick Hourigan is a Senior Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Data & Analytics practice and is based in London. He has 25 years’ experience working on some of the largest investigation and litigation matters in recent history.

Nick leads the Data & Analytics practice in the EMEA region and has extensive experience of managing complex global-scale projects with record sets in the billions. His teams work in close collaboration with organisations, their legal advisors and other FTI Consulting experts developing solutions that have been accepted by numerous regulatory authorities. He champions FTI Consulting’s Augmented Investigations® offering, whereby traditional analytics are complemented by data science and statistical methods in situations where this coupling is to maximum client benefit. He has led or been closely involved with major sanctions investigations for UK, EU, and US institutions.

On the highly-publicised Swedbank matter, Nick led FTI Consulting’s global team of financial crime experts, investigations specialists, data analysts, and forensic accountants in a review of alleged AML violations and OFAC sanctions breaches. As detailed in Swedbank’s unprecedented public report, FTI Consulting analysed hundreds of billions in alleged money flows and online banking activity from high-risk non-resident individuals through the Baltics into Europe and beyond, considering millions of customers and commensurate volumes of SWIFT and other payments to identify customers and analyse potentially suspicious transactions.

Nick led a predominantly European team supporting counsel in a multi-year voluntary self-disclosure engagement for a global logistics shipping company, encompassing data from nearly 100 countries and half as many systems.

Under his leadership, Nick’s teams have developed significant financial crime intellectual property in the form of tools, reference datasets and methodologies, including: jurisdictional/geographic and internet protocol reference data sets, a real-time sanctions data repository (US, UK, EU, UN and others), a name matching platform integrating algorithms expertise with auditable data flows, a library of 100+ money laundering detection scenarios, and FC DataRev—a bespoke financial crime legal/transaction review platform.