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Green Lights In Lebanon: Q&A with General Manager and Board Vice Chair of Bank Audi Freddie Baz

Freddie Baz, general manager and board vice chair of Bank Audi, talks about his bank’s robust performance despite difficult conditions, and government efforts to restore trust.

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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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Saudi Aramco IPO Unlikely Despite Big Profits

Aramco IPO may be delayed but it is offering up bonds and received its first-ever ratings from Fitch and Moody's.