Victor Matafonov is the Group Chief Compliance Officer at Emirates NBD. He has more than 35 years of international banking experience across Australasia, Europe, Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Asia with Standard Chartered, Grindlays and ANZ. This includes more than 20 years in regulatory and financial crime compliance dealing with regulators, industry bodies, correspondent banks and systems vendors. He is also the outgoing Chairman of the Compliance Committee of the UAE Banking Federation and a founding member of the MENA Financial Crime Compliance Group. He started his career with Coopers and Lybrand in Melbourne after graduating in Accounting and Economics at Deakin University.