Nicole Fitch

Director

  • Asia Pacific
Singapore +65 6227 2038 Email

Nicole Fitch is a Director and leads the data analytics practice for Asia Pacific in Control Risks. She specialises in helping clients understand how data analytics can support risk management, and serve as a key tool in driving strategic risk management and compliance.

Nicole has led large-scale regional and global risk management, forensics, and data analytics projects across the Asia Pacific region, and helped to build Control Risks’ bespoke analytics-as-a-service consulting services. Nicole leads data-led investigations, fraud and compliance monitoring projects, and our anti-counterfeit and brand risk management services. 

Recent tasks that Nicole has worked on include:

  • Data-led investigations into conflicts of interest, bribery and corruption, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations;
  • Developing global compliance monitoring programmes using internal client data to identify red flags, assess trends and statistics, and build risk models for prioritising risk profiles for insurance, manufacturing, and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) clients;
  • Providing clients with external data analysis to manage risks such as counterfeit issues, product diversion, social media campaigns, bad threat actors and other risks;
  • Designing and supporting implementation of an enterprise-wide data-led fraud risk management strategy for a regional bank;
  • Delivering a region-wide anti-money laundering (AML) monitoring solution update and case management tool for a Tier 1 financial institution.
  • Nicole’s work with clients includes data workshops, data strategy and maturity assessments, and data-driven strategic planning for compliance, audit and risk functions. Teaching clients how to harness and exploit data effectively is a key part of our data analytics practice. She works closely with Control Risks teams to integrate data into our client work, and with clients to help them understand how data analytics can support their operational, reputational, and regulator risk management programmes

    Before joining Control Risks, Nicole led the Fraud Risk Management practice for Capco, a financial services and technology consultancy. Prior to Capco, Nicole was a Manager in the Forensics Consulting practice at PwC Malaysia. 

    Nicole holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations and Economics from California State University in Sacramento, and a Master’s Degree in International Trade & Finance from Yonsei University in Seoul. She is also a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

    Interested in our South East Asia analysis?

    Get in touch

    Can our experts help you?

    Related articles