KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 11): Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has appointed Kamarudin Hashim as executive director of its Market & Corporate Supervision business group.

He will be overseeing the institution supervision, corporate surveillance, market surveillance and risk analysis departments of the commission, SC said in a statement.

Kamarudin, who has been with SC since 1993, was formerly leading the Intermediary and Fund Supervision team and with vast experience in various areas including derivatives, bonds, fund management, Islamic capital markets and supervision.

SC has also promoted Salmah Bee Mohd Mydin to the position of director of Intermediary & Fund Supervision, in charge of supervision of market intermediaries and authorisation & licensing.

Salmah has over 20 years of experience in finance and capital markets industry. Over the years at SC, Salmah has taken different roles giving her considerable knowledge and exposure in regulatory matters including compliance, enforcement, licensing and supervision.

Additionally, SC has appointed Tengku Zarina Tengku Chik as the director of Corporate Resources.

Tengku Zarina has more than 25 years of global banking experience both in corporate and international finance. She has taken on several strategic transformation roles previously, with the latest being Maybank’s head of operational excellence for global banking.

In her new role, Tengku Zarina will be in charge of finance, knowledge management and corporate services and will be involved in SC’s ongoing work in capacity building and operational efficiency.