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Features : Banks Prove Resistant to Regional Turmoil

The banking industry in the Middle East is confounding pessimists and enjoying a broad-based growth surge. Dubai is investing heavily...

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MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Rising oil revenues and the fall of Saddam Husseins regime have boosted Kuwaits economy and created...

Banking

Global Finance selects the leaders in the worlds biggest financial market. EVERY THREE YEARS the Bank for International Settlements takes...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

THE AMERICAS Houston-based El Paso, the leading provider of natural gas services in the US, agreed to sell its controlling...

Banking

Therebounding global economy is creating opportunities for cross-border sales, but only the foolhardy operate without the safety net provided by...

Banking

In the second of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the Regional and Global Best Corporate/Institutional Internet Banks and Best...

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Before Iraqs economy can even begin to recover from the war, its banking system The ruins in Baghdad of the...

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IRAQ A MODEST START FOR BANKING IN IRAQ At the end of August the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

The war in Iraq has called into question much of the architecture of international relations built up since the Second...

Banking

MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Prudent risk management has kept National Bank of Kuwaits books relatively clear of non-performing loans, but...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

GLOBAL Emerging markets often prove whiteknuckle rides, but Citigroup has (once more) earned top spot as best bank, through prudent...

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UNITED STATES/IRAQ In China, the families of executed criminals are often invoiced for the fatal bullet.Asking Iraqis to pay debts...