Founder & Principal Consultant
Christine M. Smith
Christine M. Smith is the Founder and Principal Advisor of Creed: Financial Crimes Compliance Firm, where she is engaged to analyze matters involving financial systems, internal controls, regulatory exposure, and institutional risk.
Her work is frequently engaged in litigation, investigation, and regulatory contexts—where financial records, documentation, controls, and outcomes do not align. In these settings, she analyzes complex financial and operational information to determine what occurred—and whether the resulting record supports the outcome.
Christine brings a background in corporate accounting, auditing, and compliance, with experience across SOX programs, internal audit, and control environments spanning financial and IT operations. Her work has evolved from building and testing systems to examining how those systems perform under pressure.
She is known for assessing inconsistencies, reconstructing timelines, and translating fragmented or conflicting information into structured analysis that supports litigation strategy, regulatory positioning, and executive decision-making. Her work is prepared for use in matters where clarity must withstand scrutiny.
About Us
Creed: Financial Crimes Compliance Firm is an advisory firm engaged in litigation, regulatory, and institutional-risk matters where financial records, control execution, and outcomes do not align.
The firm works alongside legal counsel, consulting teams, and internal stakeholders to analyze financial records, internal controls, timelines, and institutional conduct—where issues are not yet defined and outcomes do not hold against the record.
Creed is engaged at points where clarity is required before resolution—when existing explanations are incomplete and a structured understanding of what occurred is necessary.
