Abdul Rafay
Abdul Rafay
is a practitioner cum academician. For more than 25 years, Mr. Rafay has been working as a freelance advisor, consultant & trainer to a wide variety of public & private sector national and multinational companies in the areas of Corporate Finance, Financial Policy & Implementation, Auditing & Assurance, Accountancy, Corporate Tax Management, Financial Technology, and System Consultancy. He has been providing consultancy to various industries including Textile, Auto Assembling, Footwear, Industrial/Agro Chemicals, Ice Cream/Dairies, Glass/Ceramics, Healthcare, Mining/Natural Resources, Packaging/Paper Sacking, Steel/Pipe Casting, Rice Processing, Brokerage/Co-operative Financing, Software Development, Real Estate, Printing/Publishing, and Construction/Civil Engineering, etc. Mr. Rafay is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan. He is also a member of various national and international professional bodies including the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), USA; Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), USA. Since 2001, he has been a lifetime member of the Lahore Tax Bar Association. He has served as Co-regional Director (Founding) of Lahore-Islamabad Chapter of Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA), Washington, USA (2011-2013). In 2012, he was nominated as Member: Education & Training Committee (ETCOM) of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP). He is also a member of ICAP’s “Islamic Finance working group” which is closely in liaison with the State Bank of Pakistan and other stakeholders for Islamic Finance Accounting and Auditing Standards. He is an Alumnus of Rausing Executive Development Center (REDC), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan. In 2014, International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) selected him for Training of Trainers (ToT) for Corporate Governance Action Planning for SMEs. He is also an approved trainer for the Institute of Financial Markets of Pakistan (IFMP) established by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), the corporate regulator. In 2013, his name got included in the list of “Certified Directors” as per Clause (xi) of The Code of Corporate Governance 2012 issued by SECP. Currently, he is on the board of a Listed Company as an Independent Director. For the last 27 years, Mr. Rafay has also been associated with teaching in some of the top business schools of Pakistan. His specialized subjects of interest include Strategic Corporate Finance, Financial Crimes, Financial Derivatives, Investments/Portfolio Analysis, International Financial Reporting Standards, Corporate Restructuring (Mergers & Acquisitions), Financial Statement Analysis & Corporate Taxation. He also served as an instructor in Civil Services Academy, Pakistan to train the CSS Officers selected by the Federal Public Service Commission of Pakistan (FPSC). Currently, he is a Professor of Finance & Accounting at the University of Management & Technology, Pakistan. He has published more than two dozen research papers in SSCI, ESCI and Scopus indexed journals published by reputed global publishers including Emerald, Sage, Taylor & Francis, and IGI Global. He contributed multiple chapters in Books edited by International Editors. For many years, he authored/edited multiple international books on FinTech, Islamic Finance, Financial Crimes, Money Laundering, Terrorism Financing, Energy Finance, and Environmental Finance published by IGI Global, USA.
Publications
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Abdul Rafay.
© 2024. 360 pages.
Climate finance is a complex and rapidly evolving field, with practices and regulations varying widely across countries. This lack of standardization and understanding poses a...
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Marie G. Nakitende, Abdul Rafay, Maimoona Waseem.
© 2024. 18 pages.
Fraud has been evolving and increasing with the change in the work environment, organizational structures, industrialization, and legislation. Money, greed, manipulation, job...
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Abdul Rafay.
© 2023. 419 pages.
During the last few decades, financially and technologically corrupt practices, such as financial and technological crimes, frauds, forgeries, scandals, and money laundering...
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Abdul Rafay.
© 2023. 273 pages.
As fraud and corruption continue to spread globally, illicit and illegitimate finance is one of many areas of concern. To help stop the spread of corruption across fields and...
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Ali Polat, Muhammad Mobeen Ajmal, Abdul Rafay.
© 2023. 27 pages.
In the US, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) monitors the financial institutions which sell financial products and services to consumers. CFPB ensures that the...
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Shafiu Ibrahim Abdullahi, Mukhtar Shuaibu, Mustapha Yusufu, Kamal Kabiru Shehu, Abdul Rafay.
© 2023. 20 pages.
Corruption is one of the main causes of inefficiency and poor productivity. This chapter looks at the relationship between banking failure, corruption, financial development, and...
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Ambareen Beebeejaun, Rajendra Parsad Gunputh, Abdul Rafay.
© 2023. 19 pages.
The aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis has led to the emergence of the OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative developed in 2013. This project...
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Abdul Rafay.
© 2023. 389 pages.
In today's interconnected world, fraud and corruption threaten the integrity of global financial systems, making illicit and illegitimate finance a pressing concern across...
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S. G. Sisira Dharmasri Jayasekara, Abdul Rafay.
© 2023. 17 pages.
Informal remittance channels operate in various jurisdictions to promote illegal activities which are detrimental to the global efforts of combating money laundering. Here, in...
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Sachin Shah, Abdul Rafay.
© 2023. 10 pages.
Cryptocurrencies have sparked global transformations in digital technology and financial services, leading to deliberations on regulatory frameworks. India is cautiously working...
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Hui Nee Au Yong, Yoke Chin Kuah, Chooi Yi Wei, Abdul Rafay.
© 2023. 19 pages.
The concept of this chapter is to review the literature for a research gap on risk perception among online consumers and the intention for online purchases in Malaysia. Online...
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Michael King, Abdul Rafay.
© 2023. 20 pages.
In Timor-Leste, one of the newest nations in the world, a case of corruption is explored in this chapter, which is associated with the resource curse of official corruption. The...
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Abdul Rafay.
© 2022. 545 pages.
Energy and environmental finance (EEF) is an emerging global phenomenon. During the last few decades, many countries started monitoring EEF practices. Major components of these...
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Abdul Rafay.
© 2022. 296 pages.
Climate change and the depletion of resources will have a long-lasting effect on the globe. Thus, it is essential that businesses and organizations across the world adopt...
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Samia Nasreen, Abdul Rafay.
© 2022. 21 pages.
This chapter examines the asymmetric link between technological innovation and financialization in Pakistan for the period 1980-2019. The non-linear autoregressive distributed...
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Burcu Bahceci Baskurt, Saban Celik, Abdul Rafay, Tayo Oke.
© 2022. 26 pages.
The factors affecting environmental quality are examined in this chapter. Along with the support of relevant literature, Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis is explained...
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J. Kiranmai, Ram Kumar Mishra, M. Maschendar Goud, Abdul Rafay, Marie G. Nakitende.
© 2022. 20 pages.
The global environment and climatic systems are heating up due to increased human activities. Making it happen due to technology and the availability of natural resources would...
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Abdul Rafay.
© 2021. 650 pages.
Black money and financial crime are emerging global phenomena. During the last few decades, corrupt financial practices were increasingly being monitored in many countries around...
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Abdul Rafay.
© 2021. 374 pages.
During the last few decades, corrupt financial practices were increasingly being monitored in many countries around the globe. The past few decades have been eventful for these...
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İsmail Yıldırım, Abdul Rafay.
© 2021. 20 pages.
The insurance sector mainly consists of insurance companies, insurance agencies, brokers, and reinsurers. For many years, false damages, without being linked to money, have...
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Laila Memdani, Tasiu Tijjani Kademi, Abdul Rafay.
© 2021. 23 pages.
Investment is a part and parcel of life. There are various avenues to invest and one of those is the stock market. But the decision of the investor depends on various factors and...
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Marie G. Nakitende, Abdul Rafay, Maimoona Waseem.
© 2021. 18 pages.
Fraud has been evolving and increasing with the change in the work environment, organizational structures, industrialization, and legislation. Money, greed, manipulation, job...
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Poshan Yu, Yingzi Hu, Maimoona Waseem, Abdul Rafay.
© 2021. 23 pages.
Internet lending is a unique form of the credit market for bypassing banks in which borrowers generate online microloans without leverage or intermediation from financial...
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Abdul Rafay.
© 2020. 888 pages.
As an emerging global phenomenon, Islamic economics and the financial system has expanded exponentially in recent decades. Many components of the industry are still unknown, but...
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Abdul Rafay.
© 2020. 341 pages.
As an ever-growing international business, Islamic banking has changed the face of economics in recent years. As more and more industries embrace Islamic principles, the industry...
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Abdul Rafay.
© 2019. 302 pages.
Financial institutions are tasked with keeping businesses of all sizes financially sounds while also providing accessible banking options to everyday individuals. Fintech, or...
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Abdul Rafay, Arsala Khan.
© 2018. 26 pages.
This chapter examines the merger of two cellular companies (MOBILINK and WARID) for sustainability in the telecommunication sector of Pakistan. During 2011-2013, WARID faced the...
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Abdul Rafay, Arsala Khan.
© 2016. 12 pages.
This paper examined the shift towards the Next Generation Networks (NGNs) like 4G from 2G and the role of technology for sustainable development in the telecommunication sector...
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