
Biography
Thibault Portet is a Senior Associate in FRA's Forensic Accounting team in the Paris office. He has extensive experience in financial crime matters, investigations, and compliance projects, particularly within the banking industry.
At FRA, Thibault has contributed to multiple fraud investigations on corruption and dispute cases. During a four-month assignment, he worked in Switzerland with the FINMA authority on a bank investigation. Among other tasks, he focused on reviewing the bank’s governance and its Large Exposure Report, cross-referencing the latter with the Basel Committee’s requirements. He also investigated capital surcharge matters.
Prior to joining FRA, Thibault gained valuable experience as a Senior Consultant, primarily in the financial industry. He worked on various financial security projects, focusing on market abuse prevention, regulatory compliance, and risk management.
His work included enhancing metadata repositories to strengthen preventive risk controls, automating KPIs for ECB regulatory dashboards, and synthesizing group operating losses related to fraud and disputes with authorities. He also contributed to the development of an IDD control plan aimed at preventing conflicts of interest and improving client protection. Additionally, he assessed the international banking portfolio of a CAC 40 healthcare company to identify potential corruption risks.
He also built a strong foundation in corporate finance through two years of international experience in accounting, treasury, management control, and transfer pricing advisory across Ireland, France, the UK and Luxembourg.
Thibault holds a double degree from Neoma Business School, including a specialized master’s degree in Financial Analysis and a master’s degree in Management. He also earned a two-year diploma in Firm and Business Management from IUT Nice Sophia Antipolis.
He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and holds the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF - French Financial Markets Authority) certification, as well as the Google Data Analysis Professional Certificate.