Arham Merican is a Registered Shariah Adviser with the Securities Commission Malaysia and one of the country's leading authorities where Islamic finance meets modern financial structures. His work runs from the Middle East's first Islamic securities borrowing and lending deal through to crypto staking and digital gold platforms — the practical frontier of Shariah-compliant digital assets. Formerly Head of Shariah & Governance at Bursa Malaysia, the national stock exchange, he oversaw the development of new Shariah-compliant products across the capital market, and he is the founder of the fintech Sampul.co. His expertise sits precisely where Islamic jurisprudence meets tokenisation — making him an essential voice on whether, and how, digital assets belong in the $4 trillion Islamic economy.