Award Winners
World’s Best Islamic Financial Institution Awards 2018: Introduction
As Islamic banking spreads, service providers continue to develop new tools and products to meet the wide-ranging financial needs of the world’s Muslims.
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Award Winners
World’s Best Islamic Financial Institution Awards 2018: Table of Winners
Global Financegives readers insight into the providers delivering Shariah-complaint solutions that meet the needs of sophisticated customers with complex needs.
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Middle East Supplement 2018
Across the Middle East, where more than half of the population is under the age of 24, educational systems are strained and unemployment rates are high. Even in the oil-rich Gulf, fiscal pressures from lower hydrocarbon revenues are forcing governments to cut back on the largesse their citizens have come to expect.
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Benefiting From Diversity: Q&A With QInvest’s CEO Tamim Al-Kawari
As Qatar diversifies its economy away from oil revenues, QInvest CEO Tamim Al-Kawari says it sees strong growth potential across a range of industry sectors ranging from healthcare, agriculture and education to industrials.
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Building Inclusion: Q&A With Bank Muscat CEO Abdul Razak Ali Issa
Bank Muscat CEO Abdul Razak Ali Issa discusses the unique challenges and opportunities of banking in Oman, and how his institution serves clients throughout the region.
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Business Unusual: Q&A With International Bank of Qatar’s Managing Director
Amid talks of a merger between is bank and two others, Omar Bouhadiba, managing director International Bank of Qatar (IBQ), talks about the domestic market, mitigating impacts of the blockade, banking innovations and what-if scenarios.
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Egypt’s Recovery Room
Egypt is leading the region’s economic rebound, with special attention paid to nurturing the strong growth potential of smaller businesses.
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Expanding Opportunity: Q&A With Egypt’s CIB Chairman Hisham Ezz Al-Arab
Egypt’s entrepreneurs need innovative financial services delivered via mobile phone to become successful contributors to the economy, says CIB’s chairman and managing director, Hisham Ezz Al-Arab.
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Growing Organically: Q&A With Boubyan Bank CEO and Vice Chairman Adel Al Majed
While other banks look abroad for growth, Boubyan Bank CEO and vice chairman Adel Al Majed says Boubyan focuses closer to home.
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Is Lebanon The New Greece?
The war in neighboring Syria has taken its toll on Lebanon’s economy, which is demonstrating lackluster growth and high levels of public debt. Could the upcoming May parliamentary elections restore growth and investor confidence?
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Lebanon Ready To Rebuild Syria
As the war in Syria enters its final stages, regional and international investors are eyeing postconflict economic opportunities.
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MENA’s Big Tech Boom
High-speed 5G networks and Cloud data centers are giving digital efforts across the region a big boost.