Mohammed Hmida Klai
Manager – Compliance
Mohammed holds the position of Manager – Compliance and is based in Abu Dhabi (UAE) office of j. awan & partners.
Mohammed has around seven years of experience in the Middle East region. He has hands-on experience with the different regulatory regimes in the GCC and in the field of Anti Money Laundering & Compliance. Prior to joining the firm, he worked as a senior analyst at the Central Bank of Bahrain. He started his career in 2016 with Gulf Researcher, a consulting company based in Bahrain that focuses on market research, before joining the Central Bank later in the same year. He was tasked with supervising and compliance monitoring of a portfolio of retail banks, payment service providers and financing companies. In 2019, he joined the Licensing Directorate and was responsible for reviewing applications for a CBB license and Fintech applications to enter CBB’s Regulatory Sandbox Environment.
Mohammed holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with Honours from University of Tunis with a major in Finance.