Speaker Profile: Waqar Chaudry

Waqar’s international career spans nearly 20 years in various sectors, primarily specialised in capital and financial markets. He joined Standard Chartered in London earlier this year as Executive Director, Innovation and Digital Assets Product, Financing & Securities Services in Financial
Markets. Waqar performs his role at the group level and is responsible for the Financing & Securities Services digital assets custody strategy and product rollout including working closely with other digital assets initiatives within the wider Financial Markets division.

Waqar joined SCB from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global
Market (ADGM) in the UAE where he last held the role of Senior Manager, Market Infrastructure
and Products, responsible for operational and technical authorisation and supervision of virtual
assets exchanges, traditional exchanges and more widely digital asset custodians, broker-dealers
and banks.

Prior to ADGM, Waqar spent 8 years at the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) performing
multiple roles in Sydney, Australia including managing energy & commodities futures and options
markets. Prior to the ASX, Waqar was a consultant with IBM Global Business Services in the APAC
region.

Waqar holds an MBA (Executive) from the Australian Graduate School of Management UNSW in
Sydney, post graduate finance qualification from University of Technology Sydney and a Bachelor’s
of IT in Software Engineering from the University of South Australia.