Biography
Tamer Elderini is Country Head of Protective Security and BCIM at HSBC, with senior-level expertise in Financial Crime Compliance, Physical Security, and Business Continuity and Incident Management. He leads two departments that bring together financial crime investigations, fraud risk prevention and enterprise security risk. Together they protect a large national workforce, headquarters facilities and branch network.
Professional experience
Tamer has held senior leadership responsibilities across Financial Crime Compliance and Security Risk Management, overseeing two specialized departments with a combined team of 35 professionals, including senior managers, managers, investigators, and security personnel.
His key areas of responsibility include:
- Physical Security: Overseeing security operations across two headquarters buildings and 65 branches, including the supervision of more than 400 security guards.
- Financial Crime Compliance: Leading investigations involving fraud, money laundering, sanctions, terrorist financing, and tax evasion.
- Fraud Risk Management: Developing and implementing fraud prevention, detection, and risk mitigation measures.
- Business Continuity & Incident Management: Managing contingency planning, incident response, and operational resilience.
- Information Security & Insider Risk: Overseeing internal security threats, information protection, and risk mitigation.
- Leadership & Governance: Directing multidisciplinary teams responsible for protecting an organization of more than 2,000 employees.
His experience combines operational security leadership with financial crime compliance, corporate investigations, and enterprise risk management.