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GCC Report: Move To Launching Pad

REGIONAL REPORT: GCC / CAPITAL MARKETS The region’s biggest exchanges, in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are ready for liftoff. Al Sowailim: Saudi Arabia offers great opportunities for global investors. The volume of initial public offerings on ...

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GCC Report: Shifting Gears

REGIONAL REPORT: GCC / COUNTRY PROFILE: QATAR Qatar has plenty of gas for the long drive to becoming a knowledge-based economy. Doha's constantly changing skyline illustrates Qatar's rapid growth. Qatar has the world’s third-largest reserves of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Bankers Rush In As Oil Wealth Rises

MIDDLE EAST Dubai: Financial center is attracting global banks hungry for regional growth . New York-based Citi moved one of its top bankers to Dubai last month, while Standard Chartered of the United Kingdom opened the largest trading ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Turkey’s Biggest IPO Raises $1.9 Billion

COMPANY TO WATCH: TURK TELEKOM/TURKEY Türk Telekom, the country’s former fixed-line phone monopoly, is expanding rapidly into mobile phone and Internet services. The company has 5 million broadband Internet customers and expects that total to reach 9 million by the ...

Award Winners

Features: Awards: Islamic Financial Institutions

ANNUAL SURVEY / ISLAMIC FINANCE Global Finance selects the winners in a fast-growing area of finance that combines investing according to the tenets of Islamic law with modern financial products and systems. Islamic finance is a system of ethical ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Stock Issues Boom In Oil-rich Gulf

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS Saudi Arabia’s Inma Bank, a new Islamic financial institution, raised $2.8 billion in its initial public offering of a 70% stake in April, the largest-ever IPO in the kingdom. Samba Capital, a subsidiary of Samba Financial, was ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Inflation Flares But Cool Heads Prevail

MIDDLE EAST GCC monetary leaders are pressing ahead with plans for a single currency, despite pressures to revalue. Central bank governors from the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) gathered in Doha, Qatar, in April ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Big Chinese Ipos Keep Coming Despite Downturn In Stock Market, Putting Shanghai Exchange In Lead

Global Equity/drs The Shanghai Stock Exchange raised more funds in initial public offerings last year than any exchange worldwide, and it is taking aim at another record in 2008, despite a 30% pullback in the Shanghai composite index ...

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Cover Story : From Bust To Boom

Middle East Lebanon’s banks are spreading their wings as they push for more growth in the Middle East’s key markets. Banks in downtown Beirut: Lebanon's financial institutions are expanding through the region. While the banking sector remains the backbone ...

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Saudi Arabia

GCC Report: Move To Launching Pad

GCC Report: Shifting Gears

Emerging Markets : Bankers Rush In As Oil Wealth Rises

Emerging Markets : Turkey’s Biggest IPO Raises $1.9 Billion

Features: Awards: Islamic Financial Institutions

Corporate Finance : Stock Issues Boom In Oil-rich Gulf

Emerging Markets : Inflation Flares But Cool Heads Prevail

Corporate Finance : Big Chinese Ipos Keep Coming Despite Downturn In Stock Market, Putting Shanghai Exchange In Lead

Cover Story : From Bust To Boom

Cover Story: Let the good times roll

Features : Opportunity Play

Corporate Finance : Greenback’s Decline Prompts Talk Of Central Bank Reserve Diversification And Ending Pegs To Dollar