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Lebanon Needs infrastructure And Reserves: Central Bank Governor

Riad Salamé, governor, Banque du Liban, talks with Global Finance Magazine editor Andrea Fiano about Lebanon’s need to build infrastructure and reserves, and the central bank’s efforts to boost growth from around 2.5% to around 6% by boosting tech startups and entrepreneurship generally.

Data

Q&A With Central Bank Governor of Jordan

Dr. Ziad Fariz, governor of Jordan’s central bank since 2012, talks about the refugee problem, recovery from the financial crisis, and how his country is keeping its financial system on an even keel.

Data

Q&A With Central Bank Governor of Lebanon

Riad Salamé, governor of Lebanon’s central bank, discusses economic conditions for his country and the region in general, and how Lebanon benefits from its “strong, healthy and conservative banking sector.”

News

Top 50 Safest Banks In Middle East 2017

GCC banks still dominate, with First Abu Dhabi Bank firmly on top.

Data

The Levant: Sun Shines Through Clouds

Definedloosely as the region spreading from Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria in the northeast, and including Egypt in the southwest, with Cyprus off the shore, the Levant sees many points of lightdespite the current gloomy outlook.

Award Ceremonies and Events

Getting Inflation Back To Target Range A Challenge: Flug

Karnit Flug, governor of the central bank of Israel, again won an “A” grade in Global Finance’s annual Central Banker Report Cards. She speaks with editor Andrea Fiano about Israel’s economy and the challenge of getting inflation to target, as well as global conditions and the threat of rising protectionism.

News

Can Saudi Women Jumpstart The Auto Industry?

By June 2018, 32 million Saudi women will be allowed to drive.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Private Deal to Replace Aramco IPO?

The potential IPO for 5% of Aramco isexpected to be the largest IPO ever and was scheduledfor 2018.

Features

Central Bankers Report Card 2017 | Ratings For Middle East & Africa

These are the ratings for central bank governors from the Middle East and Africaregions in 2017.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

2017 Could Be A Record Year For Arab Fintech

Some of this year’s biggest deals include $20 million for Bahraini payment solution PayTabs, $3.5 million for Emirati finance-comparison platform yallacompare and $1.5 million for Emirati mobile-banking solution NOW Money.

News

Can New CEO End Crisis For Teva Pharmaceutical

Kåre Schultz willtake over as CEO at a time when the pharmaceutical companystruggles withcompetition, downwardpressure on drug prices,expiring patents, risingoperational costs, bribery investigations,fines and failed acquisitions.

Award Winners

Branchless Mortgages

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