Soroush Kafiabadi is a managing director in the Financial Services Compliance and Regulation practice, based in Gibraltar. Since 2021, Soroush was responsible for setting up and managing this practice in Gibraltar. He has over 15 years of experience in financial services, advising firms on governance, compliance and risk arrangements, interactions with regulators and past business reviews.
Soroush Kafiabadi is a managing director in the Financial Services Compliance and Regulation practice, based in Gibraltar. Since 2021, Soroush was responsible for setting up and managing this practice in Gibraltar. He has over 15 years of experience in financial services, advising firms on governance, compliance and risk arrangements, interactions with regulators and past business reviews.
Soroush is a specialist in governance and oversight, financial crime and retail conduct. He has delivered several Skilled Person reports (s.166) for the UK regulator, covering a wide range of issues, which involve deep-dive review of the firms’ governance and reporting arrangements, compliance and risk frameworks, and systems and controls in order to provide recommendations on areas of weaknesses identified. Soroush regularly advises firms on regulatory requirements and past business reviews to remediate issues identified.
Prior to joining Kroll, Soroush worked at Lloyds Banking Group as the Head of Assessment and Redress of investment products, and the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Soroush’s holds an LLB and an LLM from the University of London. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in the Legal Practice.
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