Farhan Samsudin
Farhan Samsudin
Farhan Samsudin
Chief Compliance Officer,
Maybank Investment Banking Group
Malaysia
Farhan is the Chief Compliance Officer for Maybank Investment Banking Group (MIBG), Maybank Asset Management Group Berhad (MAMG) and Officer-In-Charge (Compliance) of Maybank Investment Bank Berhad (MIBMY). Farhan has over 12 years’ experience in compliance, legal and human capital. She also has excellent exposure to key areas of compliance globally. She began her career as a corporate lawyer at a leading law firm in Malaysia before joining Maybank Group in 2011, and has held roles in Group Compliance and Maybank oversea operations such as United Kingdom and United States of America. Farhan has been involved in several of Maybank Group’s major regulatory projects, such as US Dodd-Frank Act, Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Since she took over compliance portfolio in Jun 2021, she initiated Compliance Transformation Plan towards achieving standardisation of compliance practices for 14 operating entities under MIBG and MAMG. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from International Islamic University Malaysia and a Master of Laws (LLM) from University of Reading, United Kingdom.