Industries

Financial Services

Overview

CRA has been involved in many of the largest and most prominent financial disputes over the last decade. Our clients, who include retail, commercial and wholesale banks, insurers, payments companies, fintech companies, and wealth and asset managers and their counsel, rely on us for high quality research and analysis, expert testimony, and comprehensive support in litigation and regulatory proceedings. Our experts have backgrounds in finance and accounting and work closely with leading academics from top-tier research institutions, including former members of the SEC, CFTC, DOJ, and European Commission.

Our experience in consumer finance extends to all areas of consumer credit analytics, with particular expertise in fair lending/non-discrimination/unfair practices regulatory and litigation matters.

CRA and its subsidiary Marakon also help financial institutions effectively navigate and respond to the new regulatory, competitive, and customer landscape in ways that maximize value creation. We help institutions re-think inorganic strategy, capital allocation, commercial and go-to-market models, and organizational structures and people/talent agendas so as to continue to make fundamental progress in the new world.

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CRA Finance team advises on Amex GBT’s $570 million acquisition of CWT

CRA's Finance team was retained to evaluate CWT’s financial condition in connection with the US DOJ’s challenge to American Express GBT
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Bridge financing in $180 million merger dispute

A CRA team was retained by counsel to support an external expert in a dispute arising from a failed $180 million planned merger. Central to the case were the...
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ADLC publishes a favourable opinion on the creation of a co-reinsurance group for agricultural climate risks

On 4 September 2025, the French Competition Authority (ADLC) published a favourable opinion on the creation of a co-reinsurance group for climate risks in...
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