Isah Aminu
Buhari, BSc, MBA, CAMS, CFE
Mr. Isahis, a Certified AML/CFT Specialist, a Certified Fraud Examiner and a seasoned Bank Examiner of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
His work life, spanning over twenty-three (23) years, has been mostly in the financial service industry. He worked in a merchant Bank, a commercial bank, and as a financial regulator with the Banking Supervision and Financial Policy & Regulation Departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
As an employee of the CBN, he undertook AML/CFT Functions and was instrumental in the development and issuance of several AML/CFT regulatory tools, Regulations and policies for compliance by the financial institutions under the regulatory purview of the CBN. These include, The CBN AML/CFT Regulation, 2009 (amended in 2011 and 2013); The CBN AML/CFT RBS Framework, 2011; Amendment of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011; Amendment of The Terrorism Prevention Act, 2011; Off-Site AML/CFT Risk Assessment Tools (ORAT), and The CBN AML/CFT RBS Examiners’ Manual. He played a key role in the Mutual Evaluation Exercise of Nigeria in 2007 and the country’s eventual removal, on 18th October, 2013, from the Financial Action Task Force’s Grey-List of countries that have not made appreciable progress in their AML/CFT regimes. Mr. Isah is currently working on secondment to the Presidential Committee on Financial Action Task Force (PC/FATF) and anchoring the AML/CFT NRA for Nigeria as a member of the National Technical Committee on Nigeria’s AML/CFT NRA Exercise.
Email:buharita@yahoo.com