Ayaz Siddiqui
Associate Director
Ayaz heads up the GRT Financial Crime and Regulatory risk practice. Having qualified as a chartered accountant, Ayaz has held a number of senior roles within Audit, Operations and Regulatory Risk in the City of London over the past 30 years. His roles have included global head of audit for a US asset management bank, COO for an offshore private bank and multiple roles leading audit teams across a number of investment banks and fund managers.
During a secondment to the FCA, Ayaz acquired detailed knowledge of the “Wholesale Conduct Risk” approach including Deep Dives, Thematic review, LIBOR, SMCR and FX misconduct across a number of wholesale sector firms. This has allowed him to provide valuable advisory consultancy services to a number of investment banks where he has often acted as a trusted advisor to senior management on a number of regulatory risk related and remediation projects covering Conduct Risk, MiFID II and Criminal Finance Act.