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CEO, Standard Chartered Saadiq
Afaq Khan Afaq Khan is the CEO of Standard Chartered Saadiq; the global Islamic banking business of Standard Chartered Bank.
Afaq joined Standard Chartered Bank in 2003 with the mandate to launch the Islamic business division for the Bank. Since then, Afaq has been responsible in the strategic build up of a global Islamic banking business covering retail, corporate and investment banking, across geographies with a wide suite of product capabilities and award winning solutions.
Standard Chartered Saadiq has rolled out around 100 products and solutions across both consumer and wholesale banking. During the process it has received more than 10 awards which have included Euromoney's "Best Islamic Project Finance House", "Islamic Finance Deal of the Year 2008" and "Islamic Finance News: Deals of the Year 2007 and 2008".
Afaq has over 20 years of banking experience and held global responsibility for origination, structuring and distribution of Islamic structured financings including Debt Capital Market issues. He has been involved in a number of landmark transactions. His in-depth banking experience has earned him a number of industry "firsts"including leading the HSBC team that structured and successfully placed the first global Sukuk by the Government of Malaysia and more recently, the first sovereign Sukuk to be issued in AED denomination by the Ras Al-Khaimeh Government in the Middle East.
Afaq is a member of a various high profile advisory boards which include, Islamic Finance Advisory Council of DIFC, International Islamic Finance Market (IIFM) in Bahrain, Islamic Finance Expert Group (UK Govt) and Member of Task Force of Hong Kong Govt (Hong Kong).
Afaq holds an MBA from the University of Western Illinois and was born in 1962.
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