Feral Talib

Feral Talib is Executive Vice President, Market Surveillance within FINRA’s Regulatory Operations. In this role, Mr. Talib leads FINRA’s market surveillance program, overseeing the monitoring and detection of potential rule violations and risks across market and trading activity, intake and triage of potential issues, and efforts to advance FINRA’s surveillance and detection capabilities to further strengthen market oversight. Mr. Talib provides strategic oversight of the surveillance program to ensure alignment with FINRA's regulatory mission and emerging market priorities.

Mr. Talib was previously the Global Head of Market Surveillance at BNP Paribas Group. In that role, he had strategic leadership of all market surveillance activities within the firm’s Corporate & Institutional Bank (CIB), Investment and Protection Services, as well as the Commercial, Personal Banking and Services business lines, operating in 64 countries. Before that, Mr. Talib was the Global Head of Market Surveillance at BNP Paribas CIB. He also held other roles at BNP Paribas CIB, including Americas Head of the Market Integrity Domain and Americas Head of Capital Markets and Financial Security Surveillance. Prior to BNP Paribas, Mr. Talib was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where he held a variety of leadership roles, including overseeing its Market Surveillance and Investigations group.

Mr. Talib holds degrees in Economics and International Relations from Brown University.