Maroof
Saiyed
Mr. Maroof Saiyed is currently the Advisor to the Securities and Commodities Authority for its Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism function covering risk assessment, supervision, policy and response to FATFs assessment. Mr. Saiyed has a sharp insight into Anti-financial crime matters related to capital markets with his rich and varied experience of over 24 years in the capital markets implementing regulatory and compliance functions across the commodities derivatives markets, securities exchanges and products, clearing houses and market intermediaries, apart from facilitating inter-regulatory cooperation and devising policy for regulation of Virtual Assets for the Securities and Commodities Authority in the UAE. He has represented the Capital Market sector of the UAE before the FATF assessors in both the 3rd and 4th rounds of UAE’s mutual evaluation as well as before the IOSCO for its Multilateral MOU assessment.
Earlier on, Mr. Saiyed worked with the securities market regulator in India where he led investigations into insider trading and market manipulation cases and policies and regulations for asset management.
He is ACAMS Certified, holds an MBA in Finance, a Bachelors in Computer Science, completed 2 levels of Chartered Financial Analyst and several Level 3 and 4 CISI (UK) qualifications.