Abbas Basrai

Abbas leads financial services (FS) at KPMG Lower Gulf and focuses on audit and advisory services within the FS sector. He also leads the Financial Risk Management (FRM) practice. He has extensive experience working with banks (both conventional and Islamic), sovereign wealth funds, investment and asset management companies and private equity funds. He has a particular interest and experience in the accounting, regulatory and control aspects of banking operations (from risk assessments to full reviews of front office supervision, product control, treasury, risk and operations functions), including extensive work with regard to derivatives and structured transactions. Abbas qualified as a chartered accountant (ICAEW) while with KPMG in London.