Founded in 2001, Promontory Financial Group is a financial consulting and crisis management firm. It is a subsidiary firm of Promontory Group, which was founded by Eugene A. Ludwig. Promontory Financial Group specializes in global and national financial services regulatory policy and macro-economic and interest-rate policy. Its areas of practice include investigations, compliance, risk management, strategic advice, regulatory relations, business strategy, efficiency optimization and corporate governance. The firm serves the government-sponsored enterprises finance companies, broker and dealers, insurance companies, and national and international banking institutions. With one of it locations in Washington, D.C., it also maintains its offices in New York and California in the United States