About Us

As CIO, Faiz takes over the critical element of ‘Clari5 Global Fraud Intelligence’ i.e., every day the world wakes up, we will make available to our banks ‘whatever-the-world-has-learnt-till-then’ intelligence to be used for every decision a bank makes related to ‘trust’, which will leverage our customer base across 25 countries covering over a billion accounts.

Faiz is a seasoned banker with distinguished leadership experience at several ivy league banks.

He previously worked with Riyadh Bank as Head of Group Enterprise Operational Risk, at Arab National Bank as Head of Enterprise Operational Risk, at Ajman Bank as SVP, Head of Central Operations / VP Head of Enterprise Risk Management and at Dubai Islamic Bank as VP & Head of Operational Risk. Besides banks, he has worked with Strategy and Risk Consulting as well and has also been an entrepreneur.

Faiz was directly responsible for combating financial crime and enterprise / operational risk in most banks he worked with. He has hands-on experience in implementing various Core Banking Systems, Cards Hosting Systems, Credit Workflow Systems, Payment Settlement Systems including SWIFT, Switch, Direct Debit System & ICCS, in addition to developing in-house ‘Unusual Transaction Monitoring Mechanisms’. He has built & developed high-performance teams to proactively combat financial crime and to find lasting solutions to tackle emerging challenges in banks & non-banking financial institutions.