Nesar Ahmad
Yosufzai, CAMS, CGSS
Nesar Yosufzai has served for more than 15 years in the financial services. Nesar currently works in the Financial Crimes Prevention Unit (Sanctions & Export Control Investigations) at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Americas. Before SMBC, he was working at the United Nations Office of Counter-terrorism in New York, where he was leading the desk on Central Asia and Southeast Asia on countering financing terrorism. He has provided technical assistance concerning protecting the non-profit sector from terror abuse, financial investigations, MVTS, FATF recommendations, and sanctions on multiple platforms. Before joining the United Nations, he served at the Central Bank of Afghanistan as AML supervisor and head of the financial intelligence unit.
In addition to CAMS, and CGSS certifications, he holds a Master’s degree in AML/CTF from CSU University in Australia and is an AML Assessor of FATF 4th Round Mutual Evaluation Methodology. He was an assessor for Vietnam’s recent Mutual Evaluation.
In the above roles, he has worked with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Department of Treasury, FinCEN, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the United Nations on various projects and assignments. He has visited more than 20 countries to understand financial services, jurisdictional challenge/contexts, and best practices on financial crime combating abilities.