Sharif is a Risk & Regulation expert with over 20 years’ experience delivering large international risk, compliance and financial crime programmes with solution-based business transformations in the Banking, Insurance, Transport and Central Government sectors. His work has spanned UK, US, Europe Far East and the Middle East.
Sharif’s recent projects for Tier 1 banks include: FCA S166 remediation, Financial Crime and anti-money laundering (AML), global risk appetite models and reporting, KYC international customer due diligence standards and cloud-based libraries. He has consulted on strategies for end-to-end traceability of global regulatory obligations such as MiFID2, Brexit, Volcker, CoI, GDPR, Ring Fencing and PSD2.
Sharif has a keen interest in risk and compliance innovation and transformation with a strategic, process and data driven mindset to deliver evidence based practical and customer centric solutions. During his career he has developed strong relationships with regulatory bodies such as the FCA, PRA, OCC, OFAC, DFSA, HKMA, MAS, OSFI, AUSTRAC and BaFin.