Andrew Cunningham has spent more than 30 years consulting on and writing about risk, regulation and governance, based in London, New York and the Middle East. Read More
Andrew Cunningham is the Founder and Managing Director of Darien Analytics Ltd, a UK-based consulting firm that focusses on governance, risk and regulation in both developed and emerging markets. He is a Visiting Professor at the London Institute of Banking and Finance, and he is the non-Executive Chairman of ARC Ratings Ltd and ARC Ratings S.A. (which are regulated by the FCA and by ESMA). He sits on the advisory committee of the European Chapter of the MENA Financial Crime Compliance Group. He has a long involvement with the Middle East and Islamic Finance.
Andrew is based in London and is proficient in Arabic, French and Greek.
Recent and current projects include writing a Guidance Note on Digital Finance for the Council for Islamic Banks and Islamic Financial Institutions, advising a Kurdish company on how to improve its governance structures, and providing specialised consulting to Boards of Directors of banks and companies in Bahrain. Andrew writes a regular column for the Dubai-based news site, AGBI, and is Editor in Chief of the London Arab Bankers Association.
Here is a blog that I wrote for The Risk Coalition in September 2023 about recent regulatory initiatives on crypto-finance.
Here is the analysis of Saudi budgetary trends, including the Kingdom’s 2024 budget, that I wrote for Arabian Gulf Business Insight (AGBI).
Here is an analysis of the Egyptian economy that I published in the September 2023 edition of Arab Banker magazine.