Salam Alaswad

Mr Salam Alaswad
LLM PGDip BSc MEW CUBS(civil) CUBS(criminal)

FX and CFD Expert

Expert Witness and Financial Crime Forensics, covering both civil and criminal cases as well as internal matters of mediation and arbitration.

Acting as an industry advocate and expert demands comprehensive and practical industry knowledge, and the ability to apply it with the utmost integrity to ensure a court or other judiciary system receives a clear and independent expert opinion.

Mr Alaswad holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in financial regulations and compliance. He has over 20 years of senior management experience, including multinational experience in the City of London and overseas, in all areas of Contract for Differences (CFD) and Forex (FX) trading. This extends to significant practical knowledge in Know Your Client (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD) of clients based all over the world, international multichannel money transfers, various risk management techniques, and corporate governance for complex groups of companies based internationally. This has helped to build his great sense for potential financial crimes and other illegal activities in the world of money and investment. He’s currently a compliance director and Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) for London-based investment firms.

Mr Alaswad holds authorised Licensed Access by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) to instruct barristers directly, on behalf of his clients, for advice and for representation in all courts and tribunals in England and Wales, and for arbitration, adjudication, and mediation.

Professional Description

FX and CFD expert

Qualifications

LLM PGDip BSc MEW CUBS(civil) CUBS(criminal)

Areas of expertise

• Contract for Differences (CFD)
• Forex (FX)
• Spread betting
• Retail investment products
• Financial derivatives
• Fraud and financial crime including wire frauds and sophisticated scams
• Boiler room, multilevel marketing, pyramid selling, Ponzi schemes
• Anti-Money Laundering (AML) arrangements and cross-border fraud
• Suspicious bank transfers involving onshore, offshore, and shell companies
• Hedging techniques and risk management strategies
• Poor execution and manipulation of the market bid/ask prices
• Misselling of complex financial products: Forex, CFDs, and other financial derivatives

Training undertaken relevant to the expert witness services

• Criminal Experts Law and Procedure- Bond Solon
• Excellence in Expert Witness report writing – Bond Solon
• Courtroom Skills for Expert Witness – Bond Solon
• Civil Law and Procedure – Bond Solon
• Cross-examination – Bond Solon

Fees

Initial discussions and a preliminary high-level assessment of the case are free of charge, regardless of how long this takes.

Mr Alaswad’s standard hourly rate is £350 + VAT for preparing an expert witness report and £450 + VAT per hour for court attendance. The instructing party will be furnished with detailed terms of business with estimated costs beforehand.

Mr Alaswad accepts cases funded by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) and due to the uniqueness of his expertise in some cases, the LAA has approved a special hourly rate for him which is higher than any other published rates.