Dato' Khawaja Muhammad Salman Younis has 37 years of experience in banking industry covering
services,
treasury, operations, technology, business development, corporate finance, advisory, risk
management,
restructuring, process re-engineering, project management, asset management, private equity,
regulatory
and anti-money laundering compliance, administration and training.
Prior to founding and joining the Al-Tayseer Group, Mr. Salman Younis was with one of the world’s
leading Islamic banks based out of the GCC where he was responsible for setting up the Bank’s
operations
in Malaysia in 2005 in a record of 6 months, and helming the bank as its Managing Director for 3
year
during which time the Bank was voted as the Best Islamic Bank in the World by Islamic Finance News
in
2006. He was also instrumental in setting up the Bank’s representative offices in Australia and
Singapore and its asset management was one of the first Islamic Fund Management Companies to be
licensed
by the Securities Commissions of Malaysia.
He has worked for the Citi Group from November 1981 to August 2001. Between 1981 and 1996, he worked
in
various capacities within the Saudi American Bank, now known as SAMBA. In areas of services, support
and
information technology and later with the corporate and investment group where he concluded several
high
profile structured deals in oil and gas, petrochemical, shipping, water and power, high tech
operation &
maintenance, defense equipment, contracting and trading. During his stay with SAMBA, he witnessed
three
economic down turns and was also involved in remedial management of complex credit cases and several
successful re-structuring.
In September 1996, he was transferred from SAMBA to Citi Bahrain and was part of the team
responsible
for setting up Citi Islamic Investment Bank (CIIB), the first Islamic bank to be set up as an
International Financial Institution. In 1998, he was promoted and appointed as Managing Director of
CIIB
and Head of Global Islamic Finance. At CIIB, he developed a range of Islamic banking products and
also
structured first time Shariah compatible deals for clients in Eastern Europe, Brazil, Korea and
Taiwan
among others.