Speakers

• Appointed Governor of the Saudi Central Bank (with the rank of Minister) by a Royal Order dated 11 Rajab 1444 corresponding to 02 February 2023
• Chair of the Saudi Central Bank Board of Directors (ex officio)
• Appointed Vice Governor of the Saudi Central Bank for Investment and Research (with the rank of Minister) by a Royal Order dated 04 Dhu Al-Hijjah 1443 corresponding to 03 July 2022
• Appointed Vice Governor of the Saudi Central Bank by a Royal Order dated 18 Safar 1441 corresponding to 17 October 2019
• Deputy Governor for Investment at the Saudi Central Bank (2013 to 2019)
• Board Investment Committee Member at the Public Investment Fund (PIF)
• Board Member at the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) and Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee
• Board Member at the National Debt Management Center (NDMC) and Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee
• Joined SAMA in 1999 and seconded in 2003 to the World Bank Group for 3 years to work in the Capital Markets Department of the International Finance Corporation IFC
• Started professional career at the Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF) as a financial analyst and achieved Chase Manhattan certification in credit analysis
• Obtained Bachelor’s degree in accounting from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) and Master’s degree in Business Administration specializing in Finance from George Washington University
• Participated in various specialized programs conducted by banks and international asset management firms
• Completed the General Management Program of Harvard Business School at Harvard University
• CFA Charterholder

Nadim Najjar is Managing Director, Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa (CEEMA),
for London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). In a career spanning 25 years, Nadim has proven
his leadership, technical and business acumen through a series of roles that saw him drive
business growth, employee engagement and customer satisfaction.

At Reuters, he oversaw the commissioning of information and dealing systems that enabled the
development of the financial industry across the region. At Thomson Reuters, Nadim took over
the management of the Middle East and North Africa business, expanding into new territories
and growing market share. At Refinitiv, Nadim championed the development of Islamic Finance
products including Islamic market data, research and intelligence, and trading and workflow
solutions that address the entire trading cycle for Islamic Finance instruments.

Nadim has broad experience of acquisitions and divestitures, both as part of a global operation
(such as the divestiture of the Intellectual Property & Science division at Thomson Reuters) and
in the integration of local acquisitions which have deepened the portfolio of the organization (the
acquisition of Zawya by Thomson Reuters).

He has substantial experience of change management, leading his team through Thomson
Reuters’ divestiture to create the $6 billion global data provider Refinitiv in 2019, and
culminating in LSEG’s market-shaping $27 billion acquisition of Refinitiv in 2021.

Most recently, Nadim has overseen LSEG’s integration and synergies program for the Middle
East & Africa, while managing the region. Post-pandemic, Nadim has worked with his leadership
team to implement a hybrid working approach that brings the benefits of in-office collaboration
and connection alongside flexibility for colleagues, maximising wellbeing and productivity.

A strong advocate for gender equality and diversity in the workplace, Nadim is an Advisory
Board Member of Reach, a non-profit mentoring program for young professionals, and is a
supporter and advocate for the MEA chapters of LSEG’s diversity and inclusion networks.

Nadim is fluent in Arabic, English and French. He holds an honors degree in Engineering,
Computer & Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut and in 2017
was listed as one of the top 100 executives in the region by Forbes Middle East.

Sultana El-Sayed is a managing director in the Forensic Investigations and Intelligence practice, based in Riyadh. In addition, Sultana also serves as Head of Kroll’s Saudi Arabia Forensic Investigations and Intelligence practice. She leverages more than 15 years of experience specializing in risk management advisory throughout all stages of diligence, forensic investigations, litigation support, and asset tracking and recovery. With a focus on the Middle East,

Sultana was previously based in Kroll’s London and Dubai offices before establishing the Saudi
business.

Sultana advises a range of clients, government agencies and ministries, regulators parastatals, private companies, financial institutions, investment firms and HNWIs on a variety of strategic, commercial and risk management issues, unique to emerging and frontier markets.

Sultana has a proven track record of advising board and management teams to respond to challenges stemming from internal fraud, embezzlement and corruption, and she also supports investment teams to identify and mitigate reputational risks and liabilities across the investment lifecycle, and in existing and new markets.

In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sultana supports clients manage problematic assets and progress country-wide strategic initiatives. Her personal casework includes investigations into credit fraud and nonperforming loans (NPLs), financial mismanagement, fraud and embezzlement on behalf of government clients, the Capital Markets Authority, and family offices. She has also been engaged in the pursuit of international asset recovery strategies.

Prior to joining Kroll, Sultana worked at Grant Thornton International and
Barclays Capital in London, where she undertook strategic research
projects for management teams seeking growth and market entry
opportunities in the Gulf Cooperation Council and the broader Middle
East.

Suliman Aljabrin is a banking regulator with over 15 years of experience in banking supervision and regulation. He is currently the Executive Secretary of Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENAFATF) leading the Secretariat in supporting its member states in their commitment to adopt, implement and raise compliance of FATF Standards and UN treaties and resolutions withing the region, and identify issues of regional nature related to money laundering and terrorist financing.

Prior to joining MENAFATF, Mr. Aljabrin was the Director of Banking Policy Department at the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), responsible for formulating and implementing effective prudential, conduct, and AML/CFT rules and regulations in the Saudi banking sector. Mr. Aljabrin has extensive international experience, as he has previously worked at the International Monetary Fund, providing policy analysis, technical advice to national regulatory and supervisory agencies on the design and implementation of financial supervision and regulation policies and related institutional frameworks. He has also been a member of various high-level groups in different standard setting bodies such as the Financial Stability Board, and Basel Committee for Banking Supervision; lastly being a member of the Policy Development Group at the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision.

Mana AlDohan is an AGM Compliance, Antifraud & ABC Head at SABB with 24 years of experience helping the bank line of business with establishing required controls to mitigate the fraud risks. Specializing in building a strong and world class ethics, compliance and FC, AML and antifraud programs, Mana, uses his experience to support the business while protecting the firm’s reputation.

By focusing on Compliance Antifraud risks, Mana has been able to put the bachelor degree in business administration from King Abdulaziz University and High Diploma from University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of business to good use. Over the years, Mana strengths at different projects and accomplishments with different banks.

When he’s not at SABB, Mana is an avid reader and loves spending time outdoors.

Manar is holding a Bachelor’s degree in accounting with professional license from CMA an ACAMS. With work experience of around 17years in controlling functions “Internal Audit, Compliance& AML”.

Before joining the Compliance Department, Manar spent nine years as Internal Auditor within RB Internal Audit Looking for achieving the objective of improving the effectiveness of risk management, control, and governance processes by adapting a Risk Based Approach in the audit methodology within Riyad Bank and Riyacapital.

She was nominated as one of Women Leaders for the kingdom vision 2030 and G20/B20 (Integrity and
Compliance) Task Force Member 2020. Currently she is holding a position of Head of Anti Money Laundering and Combating Financial Terrorism, in Riyad Bank and appointed as Chair of Anti Financial crime and Anti Money Laundering Committee Supervised by SAMA for the year 2023.

Mr. Muzammil is a Partner in Deloitte Middle East, leading the Middle East Financial Crime and Analytics practice.

With Almost 20 years of experience in both corporate banking and consulting roles across the Middle East and Africa, he is a seasoned multi-disciplinary practitioner in the areas of risk, regulatory compliance, technology and data analytics. Muzzi is focused on delivering market leading services to support public and private sector clients in their efforts to combat Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing, Sanctions, Fraud and Anti-Bribery and Corruption risks. He also specializes in ideation, design and implementation of end-to-end technology and analytics solutions to solve problems in the areas of Forensic, Fraud and Financial Crime.

Muzzi is a member of the UAE AML/CFT Public Private Partnership Committee, advisor to the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime – MENA Chapter, and the Chair of the United for Wildlife – Illegal Wildlife Trade MENA Chapter Steering Committee.

Nora is a Senior Financial Crime Consultant with a career path and interest that is mainly about fighting crimes, investigation, and assisting entities in Saudi Arabia and the region, to better understand their compliance obligations.

Nora has built her expertise in this field and earned her Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) credentials back in 2018 and became a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Assessor -former- in 2022.

Nora has dedicated her career through previous experiences in KPMG, Arab National Bank (ANB) and the Saudi Central Bank, which allowed her to gain more knowledge in this area and take part in further enhancing Saudi Arabia’s financial framework.

In his previous experience at the Saudi Central Bank, he established two departments with highly professional Colleagues, one for finance companies’ supervision, and the other for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing. He worked there for one decade. And during this period, he worked at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as an expert in anti-money laundering and terrorist financing. One of his greatest accomplishments was participating in the mutual evaluation of the Kingdom in 2018. And currently, he is a member of the anti-money laundering permanent committee. His current position is the general manager of the General Department of anti-money laundering and terrorist financing at NCNP.

The Head of examination for financial institutions. He joined the Central Bank of Bahrain in the year 2013 in the Compliance Directorate.He escalated in the Directorate as an AML/CFT examiner till I was assigned as the Head of Examination of Financial Institutions. Their mandate included assessing the Financial Institutions’ AML/CFT systems and controls. In addition, he was given the privilege to be part of Bahrain’s team in the FATF mutual evaluation, regulatory audits and financial crime related investigations.

Ibtissem Lassoued has extensive experience advising international clients on a spectrum of
complex, multijurisdictional white collar crime issues, including but not limited to anti-money
laundering and counter-terrorist financing, global economic sanctions, anti-corruption issues
including the extraterritorial effect of the US FCPA and UK Bribery act, complex fraud, extradition
and INTERPOL notices, and Capital Market investigations. Ibtissem offers clients a full and practical
knowledge of the remit of inter-governmental organizations, in particular in relation to the FATF
and MENAFATF, and the effect of these on anti-corruption efforts, confiscation of the proceeds of
crime, de-risking and the reporting of suspicious transactions.

Ibtissem has been ranked as Band 1 in Chambers Global for Corporate Investigations for 7
consecutive years since the category’s inclusion and is commended for being ‘at the forefront of
the market in this arena, ‘as passionate about her area of expertise as she is knowledgeable’ and
‘stunningly good at what she does’.

In February 2021, Ibtissem was appointed as the Chair of the Global Coalition to Fight Financial
Crime Middle East and North Africa Chapter. Her work with the Global Coalition involves strategic oversight and direction of the Global Coalition’s activity in all MENA countries and active
involvement in the development of an effective financial crime system across the public and
private sectors.1 She has been included by Asian Legal Business within the MENA Super 50 since
2021, and in 2019, she was ranked amongst Financial News’ 50 Most Influential Women in Middle East Finance.

Ibtissem is also currently serving as a member of the International Advisory Board of the CEELI Institute, a non-profit non-governmental organization based in Prague, Czech
Republic, dedicated to advancing the rule of law.

An AML/CFT supervisor, Abdulrahman works with Government Bodies, International Organizations, Financial Institutions, and Fintechs to mitigate the risks of ML/TF/PF in the financial market. His role within the AML/CFT department is to advise in regard to new technology and trends in the financial markets and ensure that the risk-based approach framework is implemented effectively. Additionally, Abdulrahman is a member of the Regulatory Sandbox Committee, which provides a safe and secure environment for experimenting with new technology and business models. In his role as Subject Matter Expert, Abdulrahman assesses the ML/TF/PF risks for the new business model to identify the risks and advises on what preventive measures should be implemented to mitigate the risks.

In addition to his work at SAMA, Abdulrahman is a member of several expert groups on different international organizations, such as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the United Nations (UN). Abdulrahman also has international experience, as he has previously worked at the World Bank Group, where he provided legal advice concerning fraudulent practices, corrupt practices, and staff misconduct to the Business Conduct Department.

With his technical and legal background, Abdulrahman contributed in 2019 to Saudi Arabia obtaining full membership in FATF, as he was involved at the time with amending the AML/CFT-related law and regulations— and led the team to develop the AML/CFT guidance issued by SAMA.

Abdulrahman holds LL.M. with Academic Honors from Georgetown University. He is also certified by Georgetown Law Center in financial and securities law.

Richard Hills is an associate managing director in K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Risk Management practice, based in Abu Dhabi. With more than 25 years of experience in law enforcement and the mitigation of risk in both regulatory and regulated environments, Richard uses his knowledge of exponential technologies, innovation, and analytics to embed data-driven decision making in strategies to improve fraud and financial crime procedures, processes, and controls. With particular experience championing organizational change on both the cultural and technical level, Richard works with financial institutions to assess risk, optimize control frameworks, and drive digitalization in support of digital transformation.

Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Richard worked for HSBC in Dubai, UAE, most recently as head of risk assessment for EMEA, where he managed the embedding of the risk assessment subfunction in financial crime compliance, delivering the assessment of financial crime risk for HSBC in Europe and the MENAT region. In addition, Richard managed a multifunctional team responsible for risk stewardship of transaction monitoring risk assessment, financial crime analysis, and applied analytics, delivering analytics strategies and aligning financial crime risk, growth objectives, and resources.

Earlier in his career, Richard worked at the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) in Pretoria, South Africa, where he developed strategies, models, and algorithms to detect fraud, corruption, and money laundering, embedding advanced analytics in qualitative reports in support of law enforcement investigations. Prior to the FIC, Richard worked at the Serious Economic Offences Unit (SEOU), where he managed investigations into serious economic offences including fraud, corruption and money laundering, often involving mutual cooperation in criminal matters between international law enforcement and judicial agencies.

Richard received his M.Sc. from the University of Liverpool with a focus on web sciences and big data. He holds an executive certificate in strategy and innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Management and is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), and a Certified Advanced AML Risk Management Specialist (CAMS-RM).

Abdullah Alkhalifah, Digital identity and KYC portfolio manager in Elm with ten years of experience in business, technology, and product transformation. Form working closely with financial institute, I developed a lot of expertise regarding KYC, compliance, AML, and financial fraud. Moreover, I am leading Elm initiatives in antifraud and AML product creation and commercialization to tackle these big challenges.

Abdullah Al-Osaimi is an expert in AML\CTF\ACC and compliance with vast experience of working in the supervision and financial services industry. He is currently working at Bank AlJazira as a VP-Head of AML\CTF to the Group. Prior to that, Mr. Abdullah was the acting head of Governance and Compliance at the National Housing Company and was a compliance supervisor at The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA). Mr. Abdullah holds a bachelor’s degree in finance management from King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA.

Mr. Qaiser Noor is a seasoned British and Middle East Banker with a variety of C level experience spread over 25 years working in top tier International Financial Institutions, Consultants and a Central Bank. He is a Chartered Accountant of England and Wales with renowned achievements from international reputable universities. He has worked in top international banks and consultants in London that include PWC, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC, RBS and Mizuho.

His key areas of expertise are Finance, Risk and Assurance, Capital and Liquidity Management, Treasury, Business innovations, Islamic Financing, Corporate Governance and Compliance. In his previous roles, he has contributed strongly for development of Enhanced Task Force for Disclosures in UK, Capital and RWA optimization for Investment Banks, ICB ring-fencing framework for RBS, Optimized Risk Operating Model along with Product Innovations.

While working in Saudi Central Bank for 6 years as an Advisor, he provided his expertise in areas relating to Finance, Risk, ICAAP, ILAAP, Stress Testing, Banking Compliance, Basel III and Latest Financial Sector Developments. He has represented Saudi Arabia in the Basel Regulatory Consistency Assessment Program (RCAP) and FSB peer review process over the years. He was a key member in various Basel sub-committees ranging from Risk Measurement Group, Accounting Expert Group, Standardized Approach and Large Exposures. After leaving SAMA, he helped establish one of the first digital banks in the Kingdom along with helping to grow Fintech companies in KSA as an accelerator and an incubator. Currently he is working as a CEO Advisor in Riyad Bank.

He is a frequent speaker in international forums (Arab Monetary Fund, World Bank, Bloomberg events) and intellectual conferences on FI related topics and is based in Riyadh.

Abu Baker Mehtar overseas relationships with all Major banks and Central Banks across Sub Saharan Africa and the Middle East for Risk. Supporting existing clients with their consumption of the World Check Risk intelligence database. Abu Mehtar is an expert on our World Check database and best practices for implementation.

His expertise in Fintechs, Mobile money, e-Wallets and Digital Onboarding involves connecting data intelligence, contents, and people to help in identifying, assessing and monitoring regulatory and third-party risks.

Abu is also extremely passionate about banking practices and fighting financial crime. Prior to joining Refinitiv he worked at Deloitte Financial Crime division.

Sultan Alhejaili is a Senior Compliance Supervisor with over 14 years experience in banking supervision and AML-CTF. He is currently responsible for inspection, risk assessment, and policy making in the Saudi financial sector. Moreover, Mr,Alhejaili has established a legal framework for the guidance of identifying and verifying beneficial ownership for the Financial Institutions by conducting thematic activities identified by FATF. Mr,Alhejaili has also participated in several media awareness campaigns held by SAMA, such as the national awareness campaign of money laundering and terrorist financing risks.

Prior to his attaché role, Tony served as the Director of the Office of Information Sharing within Treasury’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA) where he was the Senior Foreign Disclosure and Release Authority for the Department.  In this role, he also represented the Treasury Department to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to modernize various OIA operations, earning him national recognition from the ODNI.

Tony has substantive experience as a Treasury Financial Attaché, having served as the Department’s representative in Kabul, Afghanistan from 2016-2017.  During his tenure at Embassy Kabul, Tony led the negotiations for the addition of an IMF ECF benchmark in the U.S.-Afghanistan Bilateral Compact and worked closely with Afghan and international counterparts to address technical assistance needs for combating the financing of terrorism.

Before joining Treasury, Tony worked in the private sector as a Senior Consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton at Fort Meade after serving in the Marine Corps for 12 years.  Tony was awarded two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals, two Combat Action Ribbons, and several unit campaign medals for his wartime deployments to Afghanistan and other non-war operations.  Tony has a M.A. in International Economics and Emerging Markets from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. in Criminal Intelligence and National Security from the American Military University.

Currently acting as Global Head of Strategy, for the Risk Intelligence business of the London Stock Exchange Group, including World-Check.

A multi award-winning Risk market specialist with 15+ years industry experience both in the UK and Middle East. A Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), a Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS), a qualified CertPAY professional (London Institute of Banking and Finance), a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), who also holds a Diploma in Financial Crime and Compliance.

Completed the Executive Program in 2018 with MIT for AI and Machine Learning, with practical application for the financial crime industry.

Held the role of Group Secretariat for the MENA Financial Crime Compliance Group (MENA FCCG), since its’ inception in September 2016.

A permanent member of the Advisory Panel of the MENA Chapter of the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime since 2021.

Gerard has over 25 years’ experience providing software solutions for fraud and security clients, particularly in the finance sector and governments in many areas around the world.

During the last 10 years, he has been involved with all of the major SAS Fraud, Regulatory Compliance and Security related projects, initially based in the Middle East and more recently in the Asia Pacific region, covering the following areas:

– Realtime detection & decisioning for payments, online and credit card fraud using machine learning models.
– Complex fraud detection for banking applications, employees, FCIUs using Network Link Analysis.
– Regulatory compliance including AML, CDD and conduct assurance.
– Procurement integrity & supplier onboarding.
– Insurance fraud & compliance.
– Government customs & immigration.

Prior to joining SAS, Gerard had various regional management roles for security technology companies such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, CrossMatch Technology (Biometrics) and Novell. He is a Certified Counter Terrorism Practitioner and is also developing best practices for CFT initiatives.

Altaf Dossa is a trusted Practitioner and Advisor tackling a range of matters arising with governance related matters at corporate level.  Over the last 12 months, Altaf has been instrumental in the design and creation of the Governance Departments with the primarily responsibility for the oversight of governance arrangements within.

He spent six years at the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) where he assisted the Deputy Governor for Supervision in overseeing five main areas: Banking, Financing Companies, Consumer Protection, IT Risk and Payment Systems, Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing.  He advised both on supervisory matters, special investigations and market development. He led the design of the supervisory framework for the banking, insurance and financing companies.

He has over 22 years of experience, 14 of which are working for KPMG in various jurisdictions (Luxembourg, UK and Saudi Arabia) in the advisory areas of governance remediation, fraud management, financial crime compliance reviews, and information security.  Prior to joining KPMG in Luxembourg, he worked for the USAID in Washington DC (US), United National Development Programme (UNDP) in various African countries and the Francophone organization based in Mauritius (south of the Indian Ocean).

An anti-money laundering specialist, is the Head of Deployment Strategy at TRM Labs, a blockchain analytics company that provides anti-financial crime solutions to crypto businesses, financial institutions and government agencies. In this role, Elias ensures TRM’s public and private sector clients are successful – from establishing a risk-based anti-money laundering program, to efficiently conducting crypto investigations. Prior to joining TRM, Elias was Special Investigations Team Lead at cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex. In this role Elias led a team engaged in complex investigations, acted as a law enforcement liaison and managed special projects.

Hazem Mulhim’s background is multilayered, established through a career spanning 35 years in international markets. After his graduation from Bulgaria with a Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering and Medical Electronics, Mulhim began his career working at Siemens in Kuwait in 1980, where he saw firsthand how computing was starting to transform the health industry.

As the digital revolution was just starting worldwide in the early 1980s, he decided to get closer to the epicenter of innovation, moving to the US to work. There, he would accentuate his entrepreneurial vision and develop a deeper insight into emerging technologies and markets. In 1984, he moved to Jordan to establish what is now Eastnets.

In 2007, Eastnets acquired SIDE International, a leader in AML solutions based in Belgium. This expansion strategy worked, and soon Eastnets was serving a 750-strong client base.

Mulhim’s acute vision and industry insight would help Eastnets secure multiple prestigious international awards and in one recent case achieve leadership in a global compliance industry vertical.

Mulhim had also continued his academic drive, earning a Certificate of Advanced Management Program (AMP) from the prestigious Institute of INSEAD, France, and an OWP from IMD Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ms. Shouq Alfawaz is a Seasoned Chief GRC Expert with over 11 years of diverse and progressive experience in Strategy, Risk management, Governance and regulatory Compliance. Dynamic leader and problem-solver with expertise in team building. With a demonstrated history of 11 years working in the financial services industry. She has been part of Riyad Bank and Banque Saudi Fransi Compliance groups, along with multiple FinTechs. She has been also, working as Compliance Consultant with multiple governmental & private entities to initiate the internal control & Compliance operating models for the regulatory & inspection units such as The Real Estate General Authority in Saudi & many others. Ms. Shouq is certified in GRC model along with being an member of the Anti-Financial Crimes Committee (AFCC) up untill 2022.

Mustafa Adil is the Head of Islamic Finance, Data & Analytics for the London Stock Exchange Group. He is responsible for leading the Islamic finance and Islamic markets business for the organization, providing knowledge solutions and bespoke services to support the continued growth and increasing depth of the Islamic finance industry. He works in collaboration with government entities, multilateral organizations and leading financial institutions to support them in fulfilling their aspirations and executing their strategies in the Islamic finance space. These include the delivery of content solutions, research, consulting services and market engagement. He also spearheads the development of new initiatives or services that meet the increasingly sophisticated needs of the industry across markets.

Mr. Mashel Alabdullatif is currently leading the Anti-Money Laundry and Counter-Financing Terrorism examination of the Capital Market institutions as the Manager of AML/CFT Inspection Unit in the Saudi Arabian Capital Market Authority with extensive knowledge of FATF Recommendation and AML Law and its implementing Regulations as well as CTF Law and its implementing Regulations. Prior to joining the Capital Market Authority, Mr. Alabdullatif was a risk senior analyst in the banking sector with detailed knowledge of Basel II (Credit, Market and Operational Risks), Regulatory Risk Reporting (Pillar I and II) and FSA Regulatory Reporting, and before joining the banking sector in Saudi Arabia, Mr. Alabdullatif was working in one of the leading governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) organization in financial services in The United States as a Performance Analyst with advanced knowledge of portfolio and composite performance in compliance with Global Investment Performance standards (GIPS).

Vishal heads the Specialist team for Governance, Risk and Compliance solutions for Middle East and Africa at Refinitiv. Vishal is a seasoned technology leader with 15+ years’ experience in domains like Risk, Regulatory compliance, Fraud and Financial Crime, E-Fx, Customer Analytics, Information Management and Business Intelligence. Vishal has consulted various public and private organisations in Middle East, Africa and India increasing their adoption of technology to solve business challenges. Vishal is a Software Engineering & holds an MBA in Marketing with special interest in Angel investment in Technology start-ups in the field of Artificial intelligence, Big Data and Machine Learning

A senior financial industry leader with more than 24 years of experience in Fintech, corporate client coverage, cash management & trade finance. Extensive direct coverage of Asia and the Middle East serving clients across industries and business segments with Standard Chartered Bank and Emirates NBD.

Currently leading myZoi, a Fintech start up incubated on the SC Ventures platform, toward launch. Vast experience with regulatory and compliance frameworks impacting the financial industry; and profound knowledge of the emerging digital technology landscape.

Track record of building and developing diverse, high-performance teams.