McGregor Boyall - Financial Services

FINANCIAL SERVICES
McGREGOR BOYALL ASSOCIATES

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About Us
Financial Services
Delivery & Sector Knowledge
Audit
Business Change & Transformation
Business Intelligence
Compliance & Financial Crime
Executive Appointments
Digital
Finance
HR & Talent Management
Legal
Marketing & Communications
IT & Change
Procurement & Supply Chain
Risk
Quality & Diversity
Contact Us
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Our core focus is to identify, attract and deliver high quality professionals who can support
and enhance their new employer’s corporate objectives.
We deliver recruitment solutions against a wide range of permanent, interim and contract
requirements but whilst the roles we resource are diverse and changing, our approach
remains simple, consistent and successful. In a marketplace in which effectiveness and value
are increasingly prized by both clients and candidates, we believe that the qualities that have
sustained our performance in the past will continue to do so in the future.
We have been successful due to the professionalism, sector knowledge and experience of
our consultants. It is their commitment to high levels of service and effective delivery that
has allowed us to develop a deep, industry-wide pool of candidates who consistently turn to
McGregor Boyall when searching for a new position.
Headquartered in the City of London, and with further offices throughout the UK (Manchester
and Edinburgh) as well as globally in Dubai and Singapore, we are able to offer recruitment
solutions throughout the UK & Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific regions.
Established in 1987, McGregor Boyall is a global recruitment
consultancy providing permanent and contract / interim professionals
throughout financial services and commerce and industry.
About
Us London
Edinburgh
Manchester
Dubai
Singapore

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OurFinancialServicesDivision:
How many of our direct competitors have we been competing with over the last 30 years?
None. We have witnessed first hand the dramatic evolution of the recruitment lifecycle and
developed and evolved our approach, tailoring it specifically at attracting top talent into the
highly competitive FS industry.
Over the past three decades we have continually evolved and embraced change in the
competitive market in order to successfully partner with our client base to consistently
deliver high calibre candidates.
How have we stayed competitive, and in many cases overtaken and out lasted our
competitors?
Our Client Engagement
Our Delivery and Sector Knowledge
Our Consultants
Our Core values permeate our approach to recruitment.
They are:
Accountability
Collaboration
Integrity
Quality
ClientEngagement:
At the cornerstone of each successful partnership is the combination of bespoke account
management and delivery. Whether you have 1 vacancy or 100 you will be assigned an a
ccount manager who would typically have +5 years industry experience as a minimum.
Having a main point of contact ensures delivery can be closely monitored and processes
adhered to.
Our aim is to provide the level of delivery you would expect from an established name in
the industry with the personal service of a boutique agency. Our commitment to our clients
doesn’t just begin and end when a vacancy needs filling. We speak to screen approx 12
candidates for every profile we forward to a client.
This gives us an excellent insight into the market, thus enabling us to keep our clients abreast
of salary changes, hot skills in demand and current market trends.
Financial
Services

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Salary benchmarking
Updates on recruitment
and demand for skills
Updates on level of
demand for expertise
Indicators of shifts and
changes in hiring
patterns
Impacts of new
regulations
In the vastly satiated world of Financial Services Recruitment delivery is paramount.
So, how do we ensure effective delivery?
VerticalTeams
Our recruitment teams work vertically to ensure we have specialists who have a deep
knowledge of their market, so we understand our clients requirements and have extensive
networks to reach candidates with specialised skills.
Each vertical is headed up by a director of the firm with 10+ years of recruitment experience.
They are still hands on and incentivised to make sure their vertical delivers to all
requirements.
Dualdesk
Unlike many of our competitors, we train and encourage each consultant to dual desk, so we
can a provide the search mentality associated with permanent recruitment, with the speed
typically associated with contract recruitment for every engagement.
In-houseDatabase
Of over 400,000 FS candidates built up over 3 decades our database was the source of 70% of
our 2016 placements.
Networking/Referrals
made up over 21% of 2016 placements.
OtherMethods
Including Advertising / Licensed Job Board Search accounted which accounted for 17% of
2016 placements.
Screening
In today’s market, we put equal emphasis on the screening of our candidates, as to
generation of new candidates. We ensure our clients benefit from the latest screening
techniques including competency based interviewing, cultural interview screening, IKM Tech
Testing and HiredbyMe Referencing.
Delivery&
SectorKnowledge

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Our Audit team is dedicated to delivering both permanent and contract talent across a wide
range of disciplines currently in demand in a challenging marketplace.
We specialise in candidates for both Business and IT Audit Teams who have strong accounting
and technical backgrounds, and generally with Big 4 backgrounds, both in the UK and
Internationally. Our client portfolio consists predominantly of Financial Services and
Professional Services organisations and we have an excellent track record in identifying
candidates from the Associate to MD Level.
Due to the need for tighter banking controls coming into effect, the team at McGregor Boyall
pride themselves on their vertical knowledge of these skillsets, in turn offering our clients and
candidates a consultative and specialised approach to recruitment.
Our specialist knowledge extends across the following areas:
Regulatory Audit
IT Audit
Financial Audit
Risk Audit
Audit
Recent Successes
Company / Industry Role
Investment Bank Regulatory Audit VP
Retail Bank
Rates Internal Audit
Associate
Investment Bank Risk Audit AVP
Investment Bank Infrastructure Audit VP
Big 4 Audit Practice
Financial Auditor
Assistant Manager
Investment Bank Model Risk Audit AVP
Corporate Bank Internal Audit VP
Investment Bank Commodities Audit VP
Investment Bank
Head of EMEA Internal
Audit - Director
Investment Bank Risk Audit Director

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McGregor Boyall’s Business Change & Transformation Team supply temporary and permanent
Change professionals to help companies deliver, shape and re-develop projects, programmes
and organisations. We supply teams and strategic hires (from entry level through to Board
level members) throughout the project life cycle, from inception to post delivery support,
across all levels. Our Change Teams deliver across Risk, Finance, Compliance and Operational
Change within Investment and Retail Banking, Wealth / Asset / Investment Management and
Insurance. Being closely aligned to multiple BAU teams ensures the best talent in the market
is being delivered to our clients within these sectors.
Our areas of expertise include:
Divestment
Separation & Integration
Business Improvement
Transformation & Strategy
Target Operating Model
Review & Design, Process
System Design & Re-engineering
Digital
Payments & Payments Platform Integration
Regulatory & Compliance
Enterprise Data Management
Recent Successes
Insurance House PMO Change Lead
Investment Bank
Trade Booking Business
Analyst
Investment Bank Product Control Change BA
Retail Bank
Change Digital
Transformation Manager
Retail Bank
Reconciliations Project
Lead
Retail Bank COREP Business Analyst
Wealth Management
Regulatory Project
Manager
Investment Bank
Liquidity Regulatory
Reporting Project Manager
Management Consultancy BPR Manager
Retail Bank
Credit Card Transformation
Business Analyst
BusinessChange
&Transformation

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McGregor Boyall has an established Business Intelligence Team specialising in various aspects
of the full data warehousing life cycle.
With over seven years of experience working solely on BI & Data Warehousing technologies,
our Consultants distinguish themselves in the market by fully understanding the technical
requirements of our clients, and providing them with suitable candidates in a timely manner.
Having good knowledge of their very niche market means that they are able to successfully
qualify candidates and only forward the most applicable profiles. Working in such a niche
area also means that our consultants have a large network of contacts within this space.
We recruit for the following positions:
BI Consultant
BI Project Manager / Architect
BI Programme Manager
Big Data
Data Warehouse Developer
ETL Developer
MI Analyst
Recent Successes
Large UK Bank Insights & Analytics
Investment Bank Data Scientist
Insurance SAS Developer
Securities MI Developer
Insurance BI Analyst
Investment Bank OLAP Developer
Credit Card Provider
Media Client &
Microstrategy Developer
Investment Bank Risk BI Developer
Trading House Qlikview Developer
Investment Bank BO Developer
Business
Intelligence

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Our Compliance Team services an increasing demand for compliance talent in a constantly
changing regulatory environment. We successfully meet client’s talent requirements in a
market that is acknowledged as being constrained by a shortage of suitably qualified
candidates.
The recent past has seen compliance and financial crime demands within all areas of
financial services expand quickly, whilst talented resource has been limited. Regulatory
pressures to (i) provide information, (ii) manage transactional conduct of business
requirements and (iii) become familiar with prudential risk management governance mean
that compliance is projected to continue this growth. This has resulted in our clients actively
seeking to secure the best talent.
We deliver this talent across the following areas:
Control Room
Financial Crime
Monitoring Surveillance
Policy Regulation
Product Advisory
Training Competence
Recent Successes
Investment Bank Complaince Risk Review
Global Bank Regulatory Strategy Lead
Large Banking Group Control Room Officer
Global Banking Group Conduct Risk Lead
Wealth Management AML Advisory
Global Insurer Sanctions Manager
Global Investment Bank Compliance Architect
International Legal Practice
Large Shareholdings
Disclosure
Global Investment Bank
Financial Crime Training
Lead
International Investment
Bank
Head of Compliance Policy
Compliance
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Our Executive Recruitment service integrates a number of proprietary and non-proprietary
tools that together offer assurance to our clients that they receive a uniquely comprehensive
response to their “mezzanine” recruitment requirements. Our team has over 40 year’s
collective experience in the market place. We know who they key players are, and how they
can benefit our clients.
Our long-term presence in the market has provided us with an extensive network of executive
professionals working within financial services on both a UK and international basis. Such
candidates are rarely active in the job market and are therefore not readily susceptible to just
mainstream recruitment advertising. We systematically maintain communication with such
individuals via networking events, professional workshops and a wide range of research
reports.
Our Executive Recruitment service is a proven and successful “mezzanine”
recruitment service. Its key characteristics are:
Targeted at executive Technology, Data Change roles with salaries of
£110,000 - £180,000, interim £800+
Contingency based
Risk free
Time-effective
Cost- effective
Recent Successes
Head of Securities Services
Technology
Retail Bank Head of Digital Architecture
Hedge Fund Head of Risk Architecture
Clearing House
Programme Manager -
Murex Integration
Bank
Programme Manager -
Global Data Strategy
Corporate Bank
Executive Director -
Implementation Manager
Investment Bank
Head of Infrastructure
Trading IT
Executive Director - Head of
Security Engineering
Executive
Appointments

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Given the dramatic rate of change within the digital industry, where roles and titles are
constantly evolving, it is essential that recruiters work in close partnership with the businesses
they support. In today’s digital environment it is tempting to think that nearly everything can
be done online but we firmly believe in building close relationships with the people behind
the technology.
Catering to the varying demands of the fast-changing digital industry, our consultants work
with digital marketing agencies, in-house digital departments, and in conjunction with major
digital transformation projects for large corporates. These clients require diverse
combinations of soft skills, personalities, technical knowledge and experience so that the
team is aligned to enable the consultants to become specialists in their market.
The Team specialises in:
CMS Development – Drupal, Magento, Umbraco, Joomla
Project Management Mobile Development – iOS, Android, Windows,
Responsive Design
Web Development – PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C#, ASP.net C + +
User Experience – UX/UI/IA
Front-End Design /Development
Recent Successes
Investment Bank Front End Developer
Insurance House
Digital Transformation
Programme Manager
Investment Bank Senior iOS Developer
Investment Manager Digital Design Analyst
Retail Bank Digital Designer
Investment Bank UX Designer
Consultancy UX Digital Architect
Wealth Manager Senior Product Manager
Asset Manager Digital Project Lead
Retail Bank Mobile Developer
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Our Finance Team is dedicated to delivering both permanent and contract / interim talent
across a wide range of disciplines from Analyst to MD Level. We work with Investment Banks,
Retail Banks, Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, Wealth Managers, Commodities Trading Houses,
Insurance firms, Pension Funds, Clearing Houses, Consultancies and Regulators.
Our candidates areas of expertise include:
Product Controllers, Financial Controllers / Accountants, Financial Planning
Analysis, Finance Business Partners, Finance Analysts, Fund Accountants,
Management Accountants.
Valuation Controllers (IPV, Model Methodology).
Regulatory Reporting (Basel III, CRDIV, COREP, FINREP, Liquidity, Dodd-Frank,
EMIR Solvency II).
Regulatory Policy and Accounting Policy.
Due to the various regulatory and accounting standards within the banking arena, the team at
McGregor Boyall pride themselves on their vertical knowledge of these skillsets. We therefore
offer our clients and candidates a consultative and specialised approach to recruitment,
ensuring we are effectively positioned to consistently deliver the highest quality talent.
Recent Successes
Investment Bank
Equity Derivatives Product
Control VP
Investment Bank
Prudential Regulatory
Policy VP
Investment Bank
Interest Rate Derivatives
Product Control Associate
Retail Bank Financial Control Associate
Commodities Trading
House
Metals Financial
Accountant
Retail Bank
Liquidity Regulatory
Reporting AVP
Investment Bank
Business Financial
Controller
Hedge Fund Fund Accountant
Investment Bank
Credit Derivatives Valuation
Controller
Hedge Fund
Head of Product Control
Reporting
Finance

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The McGregor Boyall HR and Talent Management
Recruitment Practice is focused on delivering top talent into
human resources teams across all industry sectors on both a
permanent and interim basis. The practice consists of highly
experienced consultants with extensive networks of clients
and candidates working within the HR space. Our Consultants
provide truly consultative advice creating bespoke,
fit-for-purpose, talent acquisition solutions that will maximise
the success of each search whether on a contingent or
retained basis.
We support clients in shaping their role requirements, we
listen to our clients’ needs and provide advice on the
availability of skill sets in the market while giving honest and
creative suggestions to help our clients meet their
expectations. Our commitment to truly understanding our
clients ensures that we are able to provide candidates with
the information that they need to make informed decisions
and we are able to ensure a strong technical and cultural fit
for the roles. Our extensive networks mean that clients are
able to access not just candidates actively seeking roles, but
those across the wider HR community who are not active in
the market, ensuring that the best possible individuals are
found for our roles. Our consultants provide a tailored
Recent Successes
Investment Bank
Head of HR Shared Service
Centre
Credit Card Company Talent OD Specialist
Investment Services Head of HR
Asset Management HR Business Partner
Finance Exchange Senior HR Business Partner
Retail Bank Reward Manager
Insurance Head of HR
Investment Bank VP Resourcing
approach to each assignment, using a blended method
comprising of networking, referrals, advertising and
headhunting to search for candidates that result in a short-list
of top talent.
The HR and Talent Management Practice can support all
of your hiring requirements for:
HR Director
Head of HR
HR Business Partner
Generalist HR
Learning Development
Recruitment / Talent Acquisition
Talent Management
Change, Transformation OD
Diversity Inclusion
Graduate Recruitment
Reward/Compensation Benefits
HRIS / Analytics
HRTalent
Management

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Our Legal sector allows us to offer a tailored approach to suit the individual requirements of
our clients and candidates, providing advertised selection and search services as required.
We are a well-known and established player in the market who have worked hard to develop
strong relationships with the relevant candidate pools, allowing us to provide our clients with
access to global talent.
Furthermore, we have Legal specialists in our Dubai and Singapore offices who are aware of
candidates in these markets looking to re-locate so the talent pool we are able to source from
for our clients is truly global. We also offer up-to-date market and salary information, allowing
us to provide the added value our clients have come to expect from our services. Most
importantly, we value our long lasting relationships, all of which are built on trust and our
teams dedication to the job at hand.
Our financial services legal coverage includes, but is not limited to:
Retail and Consumer Banking
Corporate and Wholesale Banking
Private Banking
Asset Management
Private Equity
Hedge Funds
Sovereign Wealth Funds
Insurance
Professional Services
Recent Successes
Investment Bank Head of Legal
Retail Banking Division Senior Legal Advisor
Global Bank Head of Legal
Insurance Firm Deputy General Counsel
Asset Management Legal Advisor
Private Practice Private Practice
Wholesale Banking Division Senior Legal Advisor
Global Bank Company Secretary
Legal

The Marketing Communications Team is focused on
delivering outstanding talent to our financial services clients on
both a permanent and contract basis. The team has a proven
track record of working with a wide range of clients within the
financial services sector from large, established institutions
through to boutique businesses.
The Team recruits for roles up to and including Head of
Marketing / Director level and are committed to working with
experienced marketing communications professionals who
will deliver the ideal blend of expertise, knowledge and cultural
fit to ensure a positive contribution to a business.
Our areas of expertise include:
Marketing Communications
Campaign Management
Event Sponsorship Management
Brand, Media Advertising
Internal Change Communications
Corporate Communications Media Relations
Copywriter / Editor
RFP Investment Writing
Recent Successes
Banking
Global Head of Media
Planning
Insurance Market Insight Manager
Asset Management
Digital Marketing - SEO
Manager
Retail Private Bank Global Marketing Director
Asset Management Senior RFP Writer
Exchange Event Manager
Bank
Head of Employee
Communications Functions
Fund Platform Senior Marketing Manager
Investment Services
Senior Internal Comms
Manager
Wealth Management Digital Content Editor
Digital Marketing
SEO
PPC
Email Marketing
Content Marketing
Web Analytics
Digital Product Management
Website Management
Digital Strategy
Digital Customer Experience
Product
Product Marketing
Proposition Development
Product Management
Product Development
Marketing Planning
Marketing Strategy
Marketing Research
Marketing Customer Insight
Marketing Analysis
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Marketing
Communications

Our Technology Change Team is one of our most established business streams and offers
access to the fullest range of Technology and Change talent on a permanent and contract /
interim basis. Our candidate database has been built up over the past thirty years and
comprises of over 300,000 IT and Change specialists with expertise gained from the Financial
Markets client base. Our database, coupled with our innovative sourcing and screening
methods enables us to assist our clients in identifying and recruiting technologists across the
full spectrum of disciplines.
Our consultants are vertically aligned to become experts in their given skill set. This
experience and expertise not only allows us to respond to our clients’ technical and functional
requirements, they also ensure we are able to provide them with prospective employees who
represent a positive and accurate fit to differing financial services organisational cultures.
Our vertical team specialises across the following areas:
Application Development
Architecture
Business Change
Business Analysis Project
Management
Business Intelligence
Cyber Security
Data Strategy Governance
DevOps Digital
Recent Successes
Investment Management
Build Configuration
Manager
Corporate Bank Data Solution Architect
Corporate Bank
Credit Risk IT Programme
Manager
Investment Bank (US) Java Team Leader
Retail Bank Digital Change Manager
Retail Bank ETL / SSAS Developer
Asset Management Equities IT Business Analyst
Investment Services IT Front Office Support
Consultancy Cyber Security Consultant
Investment Bank Test QA Manager
Infrastructure
PMO
QA Testing
Support
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IT
Change

Our Procurement Supply Chain Practice is focused on delivering top talent into SCP Teams
across all industry sectors, on both a permanent and interim basis. The Practice consists of
highly experienced Consultants with extensive networks of clients and candidates working
within the procurement field. In a candidate driven market our Team provide truly
consultative advice, creating bespoke, fit-for-purpose, talent acquisition solutions that will
maximise the success of each search, whether on a contingent or retained basis.
With over twelve years experience recruiting within the procurement market we have
successful worked on multiple campaigns for Procurement Consultancies, Retail and
Investment Banks, helping them restructure their procurement functions within the UK,
European and Asia Pacific markets.
We have a large network of contacts and candidates within this space and have
recruited for the following positions:
Procurement Directors
Procurement Managers
Category Manager
Strategic Sourcing Managers
Supplier Relationship Managers
IT Vendor Managers
P2P / E-Sourcing Experts
Procurement Analyst Buyers
Recent Successes
Investment Bank Compliance Risk Review
Global Bank Regulatory Strategy Lead
Large Banking Group Control Room Officer
Global Banking Group Conduct Risk Lead
Wealth Management AML Advisory
Global Insurer Sanctions Manager
Global Investment Bank Compliance Architect
International Legal Practice
Large Shareholdings
Disclosure
Finance Crime Training
Lead
Bank
Head of Compliance Policy
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Procurement
SupplyChain

Our Risk Team specialises in providing quality solutions for Risk Management Teams across
the full spectrum of financial services. In order to deliver consistently in this area of high
demand and scant supply, our consultants specialise in key disciplines, providing our clients
and candidates with an integrated recruitment solution.
The landscape of risk management within financial services is constantly evolving, as
increased demands from regulators look to solidify the platform of the banking industry,
leading to new or revised regulations which call for greater transparency, increased capital
requirements and clear structured reporting.
This regulatory awareness and oversight is continuing to sustain an increasing need for Risk
Professionals, be it within BAU functions or Regulatory Programmes, it is here to stay.
McGregor Boyall is successfully responding to this imperative by providing talent in
the areas listed below:
Credit Risk
Market Risk
Operational Risk
Conduct Risk
Regulatory Risk Change Programmes
ALM / Liquidity Risk
Quantitative Analytics Risk Change
Risk Modelling
Recent Successes
Investment Bank
Market Risk Business
Analyst
Retail Bank
Operational Risk Reporting
Analyst
Wholesale Bank Credit Risk Modeller
Investment Bank Regulatory Risk Manager
Ratings Agency Quantatitive Analyst
Retail Bank Retail Credit Risk Analyst
Wealth Management
Senior Operational Risk
Manager
Investment Bank Credit Risk Data Manager
Investment Bank
Market Risk Business
Analyst
Retail Bank Credit Risk Modeller
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Risk

A focus on quality has always enjoyed a critical position at the heart of
McGregor Boyall’s service offering.
Accompanying our commitment to ethical business practices, the firm’s key policy commitment
is to quality. McGregor Boyall has therefore chosen to promote quality as the key organising
principle of its operations by gaining ISO accreditation BS EN ISO 9001. Since then we have been
audited by a member of the British Standards Institution on an annual basis and have been
awarded continued accreditation.
Our Pride in Quality programme includes:
Quality Management System for client satisfaction
Post-Assignment Quality Surveys
Recruitment Assignment Performance Reviews
Continuous Consultant Performance Measurement
Additionally McGregor Boyall operates a comprehensive Diversity Inclusion Policy that states
that everyone shall be treated equally, irrespective of gender, marital status, age, disability,
sexual orientation, colour, religion, ethnicity or national origin.
All applications for employment are managed on an individual basis and the grounds for
selection are based purely on a candidate’s skills, qualifications and aptitude. Our best
endeavours are made to ensure that this is applicable to every applicant and regular monitoring
is performed throughout the recruitment process.
Quality
Diversity

Contact
Us
Charlie Luckhoo
Email: cluckhoo@mcgregor-boyall.com
Call: +44 (0)20 7422 9000
London
Email: fsinfo@mcgregor-boyall.com
Call: +44 (0)20 7422 9000
Visit: 114 Middlesex Street, London, E1 7JH
Edinburgh
Call: +44 (0)131 306 0046
Visit: Exchange Place 2, 5 Semple Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8BL
Manchester
Call: +44 (0)161 830 2117
Visit: Centurion House, 129 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3WR
mcgregor-boyall.comFS 59211
Singapore
Jon Neale
Email: jneale@mcgregor-boyall.com
Call: +65 6394 7094
Visit: Office 18-02, One Finlayson Green, Singapore 049246
Dubai
Richard Lett
Email: rlett@mcgregor-boyall.com
Call: +971 (0) 4377 0609
Visit: Office 513, Liberty House, Dubai International
Finance Centre, PO Box 506635, DIFC

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