Date | 11 December 2025
Location | Live Online via Microsoft Teams
In collaboration with Sayari, this webinar brings together cutting-edge data intelligence and regional expertise to help participants better detect risk and enhance regulatory transparency.
As the Middle East accelerates its digital and economic transformation, the ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risk has never been more critical. This panel brings together regional leaders in governance, risk, and compliance to explore how AI, data intelligence, and automation are redefining transparency, enhancing regulatory oversight, and strengthening institutional resilience. Together, we’ll discuss practical strategies to de-risk national systems, safeguard cross-border trade, and build trusted digital economies across the region.
What You Will Learn
- How AI is Redefining GRC: Hear how regional leaders are leveraging AI and automation to move GRC from a reactive function to a predictive and strategic cornerstone of institutional resilience.
- De-Risking the Digital Economy: You will learn specific strategies for safeguarding cross-border trade and enhancing transparency to build trusted digital economies across the Middle East.
- Tackling Illicit Flows: Learn how to utilize external data intelligence and analytics to cut through the complexity of diverse regulatory frameworks and more effectively identify and mitigate financial crime risks.
- Sanctions and Geopolitical Risk: Hear how compliance programs are being adapted to address the cascading effects of geopolitical volatility and emerging sanctions enforcement in the region.
- Cryptocurrency & New Assets: You will gain insight into how Middle Eastern regulators and FIs are approaching AML/CFT compliance for virtual assets (VASPs) and managing the associated proliferation financing risks.
- Building Resilience: Discover practical steps for strengthening internal controls, improving data quality and governance, and adopting technological solutions to meet constantly evolving international standards.
- Cross Governmental Data is mandatory: You will learn how cross governmental data is mandatory to keep up with the risks a country or sector can face. Data silos is not a competitive advantage to a government agency and is not a power gain anymore. Data must be shared for national security and economic reasons.
Speakers
Regional Director – Middle East | Sayari
Mohamed Abboud is a regional leader in AI, digital transformation, risk intelligence, analytics, and government innovation. As Regional Director at Sayari, he leads the company’s expansion and partnerships with security, compliance, and public-sector entities to combat financial crime, sanctions evasion, and illicit trade. Before joining Sayari, Mohamed held senior roles at SAS, EY, and IBM, where he helped government and law-enforcement agencies harness AI and data analytics to drive smarter, safer, and more transparent operations. With a proven record of transforming data into intelligence, Mohamed is deeply committed to local innovation, capability-building, and shaping the Middle East as a global hub for risk and compliance technology.