About Us

For more than a decade, CapMarket Consulting has provided financial markets expertise to law firms, financial institutions, corporations, and governments around the world bringing dedication, academic rigor, objectivity, and real world financial industry experience to all our engagements.

Drawing upon a large network of senior capital market executives, CapMarket Consulting uses experienced individuals on each project team depending upon the specific client challenge.

CapMarket Consulting has provided expert testimony in many complex financial market litigations in which billions of dollars were in dispute. Our clients value our ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly and convincingly, and our commitment to quality and independence.

Founding Principal

Joel Finard is the founding Principal of CapMarket Consulting with more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry.  During that time, he has consulted to the financial services industry in the areas of structured finance transactions and risk management; worked on the trading desks of major banks; structured and executed structured finance transactions and risk management strategies; managed money at a large insurance company; provided expert testimony in complex financial services litigation; and taught economics at the graduate level.

As a principal of CapMarket Consulting, he has assisted financial institutions with the review, assessment, and valuation of complex structured transactions.  In addition, Mr. Finard has provided financial testimony in a variety of large complex financial services litigations in which he was retained by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Canadian Department of Justice, Plaintiffs and Defendants.  His testimony spans areas that include structured finance and structured financial transactions, financial markets, financial risk management, and management oversight and internal controls at financial institutions.  Mr. Finard has been qualified and testified as an expert in US Tax Court, Canadian Tax Court, US Court of Federal Claims, and multiple US District Courts.

Before founding CapMarket Consulting, Mr. Finard was a partner at Deloitte LLP in charge of Deloitte’s Capital Market Consulting Practice serving financial institutions.  At Deloitte he specialized in providing clients with financial services consulting, including risk management and advisory services, structured finance, trading technology, quantitative valuation, and forensic/expert opinions in complex financial services litigation.  Before joining Deloitte, he was a Vice President of Capital Markets Products at HSBC in New York where he structured and executed billions of dollars of capital markets transactions.  Prior to HSBC, Mr. Finard managed an investment portfolio and structured financial transactions for Travelers Insurance Company.  Before entering business, he taught Economics at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Mr. Finard received MA and MPhil degrees in Economics from Columbia University, and has been a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) since 1992.  He has spoken and published in the areas of derivatives, risk management, and financial services litigation.

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Joel Finard, Principal
Office: (914) 833-7633
Mobile: (914) 329-3548
Email: finard@capmarketconsulting.com

CapMarket Consulting
74 Magnolia Avenue
Larchmont, NY 10538