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Dr. Linda Eagle is Founder & President of The Edcomm Group Banker's Academy, a 21-year-old education and consulting firm dedicated to serving Banks, Credit Unions, Money Services Businesses and all areas of the Financial Community with thousands of generic and customized training programs in areas such as BSA/AML, Regulatory Compliance, Teller Training, Systems Training, Sales and Service Training, and many more. |
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Paul
Morcos , coordinator of the Lebanese Legislation Monitor
, has suggested a basket of amendments to the banking-secrecy law
and the law to fight money laundering which prevent exploiting banking
secrecy in crimes, violations committed by transitory clients and
debtors who are either defaulting or declared bankrupt. Analyzing
the conceivable role of banking secrecy following the killing of
former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and the collapse of Bank Al-Madina,
Morcos also suggests mechanisms for the efficacy of the accountability
and transparency of both senior functionaries and politicians. Morcos
, who heads the legal affairs unit at the Bank of Beirut and the
Arab Countries, emphasizes that the suggested legal amendments and
new mechanisms are aimed at preventing the misuse of the right to
banking secrecy but not eliminating or reducing it. Morcos brings
up the notion of "re-sketching the boundaries of banking secrecy"
since there should be a limit for each rule of law; otherwise, right
would turn to abuse (e.g. Bank Al-Madina, Hariri assassination).
Morcos concludes that banking secrecy in Lebanon is still one of
the international regulations most protective for the bank's client.
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Michael
Matossian joined Arab Bank plc
in November 2005 as the Global Head of Group Regulatory Compliance
. Michael has more than 25 years of experience in regulatory risk
management, anti-money laundering and compliance. Over the past
13 years his roles have included Chief Compliance Officer, Senior
Vice President and Director of Regulatory Risk Management, Director
of Anti-Money Laundering , Bank Secrecy Act Officer and General
Auditor at three different leading US financial institutions; he
spent ten years working for a "Big Four" public accounting
firm, and two years with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
. Michael participates on several national and international task
forces that address anti-money laundering and compliance matters.
He holds the following certifications: Certified Public Accountant,
Certified Management Accountant, Certified Risk Professional, Certified
Fraud Examiner and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist. |
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Hany
Abou-El-Fotouh, Has 20+ years banking experience in the Middle
East. He worked for leading banks and assumed senior positions in
Egypt , Saudi Arabia and Oman . His latest position was Head of
Compliance at Oman International Bank, the biggest bank in Oman
with 90 branches including overseas branches in India and Pakistan
. Hany is a leading subject matter expert and has extensive experience
in compliance, training and corporate governance best practices.
He is Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) . Hany has
won “Community Impact Award” for 2005 & 2006 granted by Association
of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) , USA for
his efforts to promote compliance awareness. He also takes part
at Examination Review Task Force which reviews the exam questions
for the ACAMS certification program. Hany is a frequent public at
speaker regional conferences and constantly rated as a “passionate,”
“dynamic,” and “engaging” speaker. |
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Wissam
Fattouh - Deputy Secretary General, Union of Arab Banks
Fattouh joined the Union of Arab Banks (UAB) in January 1990. He
served as the director of conferences and was responsible for the
supervision of regional and international events. Currently the
assistant secretary general of the UAB, Fattouh opened the channels
of communication with international bodies in the financial community
and is recognized as a pioneer in the MENA region for creating AML/CFT
technical training programs and forums. Fattouh has also established
a number of professional associations such as the Group of Certified
Compliance Officers (GCCO), Group of Certified Risk Managers (GCRM),
and was one of the initiators of the US-MENA Private Sector Dialogue
on AML/CFT where he remains as an active member of its steering
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Tania Fabiani has over 10 years of practice providing advisory services including financial due diligence, complex accounting FCPA violations, fraud investigation, anti-money laundering investigations and evaluations of related programs and regulatory compliance services. |
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Hussam A. Al-Abed: is an Anti-Money Laundering Consultant, Public Speaker and a Leading Trainer in the Banking Industry since August 1995. With expertisein Money laundering, Terrorist Financing ,Bank Fraud and investigation of Financial Crimes , he was recently appointed as The Advisor to The Association of Banks in Jordan on: " Anti Money Laundering & Combating the Financing of Terrorism, Bank Fraud & Security ". |
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David Cafferty has over 20 years experience in the fields of accounting, corporate governance, financial crime prevention, compliance, and anti-money laundering. A UK police-trained financial investigator and fraud examiner, he is also a Chartered Management Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner. |
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Jihad Abdul Rahman Feitrouni. I started my career in 1985 with Globe Bank, Beirut in the capacity of Operations department. Then I joined ALICO‐Beirut in 1987 in the capacity of Marketing Department. After that I joined ARUNCO Insurance MGS HARIRI GROUP in 1989. |
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Mohamad
S.Mansour,
CAMS Head of AML & CFT Unit at the Commercial Bank of Qatar
(August 2005-till present). Mohamad Mansour is a Certified Anti
Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). He has headed the AML&CFT
Unit at the Commercial Bank of Qatar for the last two years. He
was a Senior Research Analyst & Senior Investigator with the
Special Investigation Commission-SIC -Lebanon's Financial Information
Unit; where he led several AML investigations (Local & International),
with international counter parts such as; FINCen, Austrac, and TracFin.
He represented the Egmont group in the FATF/MONEYVAL ? Typology
Exercise in 2004. Mohamad is a frequent lecturer in international
conferences with ACAMS, UAB , US -MENA PSD and others, on AML &
CFT issues. He is a member of the CAMS Exam Task Force. He is also
a member of the World Union of Arab Bankers & a founding member
of the Compliance Best Practices Committee for the MENA region.
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Hassan Nasser is currently the Compliance and Inspection Director of Dubai Multi Commodities Center, Dubai, and UAE. DMCC is a strategic initiative of the Dubai Government created to establish a commodity place in Dubai. Rated “A” by Standard & Poor’s, it provides industry-specific market infrastructure and a full range of facilities and commodities trading platforms and exchanges for the gold & precious metals, diamonds & colored stones, energy and other commodities industries. |
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Ramzi F. Tarabishi Ramzi is a senior manager and the head of the internal audit department at BLOM Bank SAL. Ramzi has over 25 years of audit and financial and management consulting experience. Ramzi started his career in 1982 in public accounting. Through the years he spent in public accounting, Ramzi was exposed to many industries where he acted as a senior manager on assignments ranging from financial industries audits to feasibility studies and management consulting and training. |
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Mr. Hossam M. Abd El-Rahman, CFE, CFS, CAMS, AMLP is a Certified Fraud Examiner "CFE", Certified Fraud Specialist "CFS", Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist "CAMS" & Certified Anti-Money Laundering Professional "AMLP" with more than 12 years of experience in the Middle East region in the fields of public accounting, auditing, banking, fraud examining, forensics, financial crimes, compliance, Anti-Money Laundering, internal control reviews, insurance claims assessment and business re-engineering. |
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