An accomplished risk and control professional and founding member of the HSBC Global Markets Control Office. Farhan manages, develops, steers, and leads a team of staff in the Americas region covering Line Control Officers for Equities, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange & Commodities, Sales; Governance, Conduct & Federal Reserve Consent Order remediation; 1LOD Control Monitoring & Assurance; Country Control Officers for Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile & Uruguay. and New Product Risk. I am a key partner to Business Heads, Regulatory Compliance, Financial Crime, Resiliency & other risk stewards. He has managed multiple risk and control remediation programs involving Swap Dealer regulatory obligations, AML/Sanctions DPA, FX FRB Consent Order, and general MRAs. Farhan is a key design partner for the Conduct Risk Assessment Framework & Conflicts of Interest Identification within Global Markets globally. He led the global internal design & deployment of the Symphony communications platform for Global Markets, and meets regularly with key US regulators (OCC, FRB, NFA) for exams and general meetings.

Aided in the development of the ‘start-up’ energy derivatives business within Global Markets (Alliance with Total Oil) with desks in London, Hong Kong, Singapore & Calgary. Helped to develop strategy and product. Streamlined credit risk utilization

Identified and implemented regulatory requirements & enhanced the control environment. Represented HSBC at the OECD Working group meetings on due diligence in the gold supply chain

Provided product & sub-regional analysis of banking businesses (DCM, ECM, M&A) for the Global Head of Global Banking. Managed team of six

New business initiatives – developed new business initiatives (e.g. cross border sales of equity derivatives into Middle Eastern markets). Managed the re-engineering of the client revenue reporting function for Global Equity Derivatives

Managed the build of funding controls for EMEA Fixed Income – created a central multi-product process. Prepared control metrics presentation for senior management weekly. Managed the creation of the offshore regulatory reporting control function for EMEA Credit & Rates. RWA calculation, reconciliation, substantiation, investigation & internal trade controls. Migrated core Financial Control processes to Mumbai – trained staff & implemented new processes