Fouad C. Khalifeh

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Financial Crimes Compliance Practice Lead

Beirut

Fouad C. Khalifeh is chairman and co-founder of KCG. With more than 25 years of experience, Fouad provides expert counseling on financial crimes matters ranging from transactional compliance decision-making, internal investigations on anti-money laundering and counter-financing of terrorism, regulatory monitoring and reporting, sanctions and embargoes programs oversight, anti-bribery and corruption program validation, correspondent banking relationship management, suspicious activity reporting, fraud protection, code of conduct and code of ethics review, cyber-security enhancement, and virtual assets-related issues including Fintech and Regtech.

Before co-founding KCG as the Practice Lead for Financial Crimes Compliance, Fouad was the Chief Compliance Officer of FRANSABANK Group, a leading commercial bank in Lebanon, the Chief Risk Officer of Ahli International Bank, a leading Jordanian banking group, the Chief Risk Officer of Bank of Beirut, and a Senior Examiner at the Banking Control Commission of the Central Bank of Lebanon. Fouad also served as a member of the Compliance Committee of the Association of Banks in Lebanon, and was a Professor of Risk Management and Compliance for 12 years at the Faculty of Economics of Saint Joseph University in Beirut.

Fouad holds a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree in Economics from University of Paris 1 (Panthéon – Sorbonne) in Paris, and an MBA in Management from Holy Spirit University Kaslik (USEK) in Beirut. He is the winner of 2016’s “Top Minds in Compliance” Award granted by the US Compliance Week Magazine.