Duncan Gore

Duncan Gore is Head of Compliance and MLRO at Index & Cie (DIFC) and a DFSA-approved COMLRO with 24 years of regulatory, compliance and anti-money laundering experience across the UK, Middle East and Africa. His career spans global banking, private banking, private equity, fund management and fintech, with senior roles at Standard Chartered Bank, Bank of Singapore, Qatar First Bank and Gatehouse Bank in London. At Standard Chartered he led compliance for the Global and Commercial Banking segment across MENA, then headed a 15-member team delivering the full regulatory remediation of the UAE private banking book against external monitor timelines. He has taken multiple firms through DFSA licensing and authorisation, and built Verisight, an AI-integrated sanctions screening and transaction monitoring platform demonstrated to the DFSA and major UAE banks. He supports KLME on regulatory compliance, AML and financial crime matters, and contributes to presentations, strategic discussions, client engagements, and proposal development where relevant.