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Growing Ethically: Q&A with Qatar National Bank Acting Group CEO Abdulla Mubarak Al-Khalifa
Abdulla Mubarak Al-Khalifa, Acting Group CEO Qatar National Bank (QNB), talks about the bank’s performance, compliance and expansion plans.
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Gulf Banks Cut Deals To Speed Growth
The larger lending institutions benefit Gulf governments by attracting foreign investors to finance their megaprojects.
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Gulf States At A Crossroads
As the region’s oil-and-gas dominance faces new challenges, the monarchies are betting that foreign capital will help carry their economies into a more stable, diversified future.
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Iraq: From Guns to Budgets
Iraq’s new government must push reconstruction forward, pull in new foreign investment and produce results for a battered population. Its time is limited.
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MENA Nations Shift Gears
As some countries struggle with the burden of cheap oil, others pursue fresh growth opportunities.
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Out Of Africa, Into MENA
With more people holding a smartphone than a bank account, the MENA region offers giant opportunities for telcos offering payments and money-transfers.
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Qatar’s Dollar Diplomacy
The emirate’s deep pockets are helping it secure new and deeper trade and investment ties in an end run around the Saudi economic embargo.
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Rebuilding Syria
Putting the war-ravaged country back together will cost $400 billion. With Assad still in power and US sanctions still in place, who will foot the bill—and reap the benefit?
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Reopening For Business: Q&A with CEO of Trade Bank of Iraq Faisal Al Haimus
Faisal Al Haimus, CEO of Trade Bank of Iraq, talks about his country’s prospects for economic growth—and potential to leap ahead with new technology—as it emerges from hard years.
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Simplifying Banking: Q&A with ABK-Egypt CEO and Managing Director Khaled El Salawy
ABK-Egypt CEO and Managing Director Khaled El Salawy discusses how technology is making banking easier for consumers and businesses in a fast-growing economy.
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Multinationals Brexit
Through two years of uncertainty, companies made plans to exit the UK. Now, many are actually leaving, and even Remain won’t bring them back.
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Saving Money By Switching To Renewables
Big companies are leading the charge into green energy as the long-term cost benefits become more apparent, yet political hurdles remain.