Country Report
Saudi Arabia Breaking Away
Saudi Arabia needs a strategy to diversify its oil-based economy. Can change come fast enough?
Middle East
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Saudi Arabia Privatizations Could Help Plug Budget Gap
With the country’s oil revenue set to slide by about 30% this year, privatization is a largely untapped resource.
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World’s Best Banks 2015
Global Finance unveils its annual list of the best banks globally, regionally and by country. The winners have provided the best service to clients.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Middle East Poised For Growth
Isaac Thomas, executive vice president and head of cash management, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, describes the region’s changes and challenges.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Saudi Arabia Taps Bond Market As Low Oil Prices Create Deficit
Capital Markets | Fixed Income
Saudi Arabia has issued its first sovereign bonds since 2007 to help fund a widening budget deficit caused by continued spending amid low oil prices.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Suez Canal: Egyptian Economy Will See A Bump-upBut How Big?
At a lavish ceremony last month, the Egyptian government inaugurated the new Suez Canal, marking an expansion of the original project, which dates to 1869.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Forging New Economies
GCC Regional Report 2015 | Special Economic Zones
Special economic zones are allowing GCC countries to diversify their economies away from oil and provide jobs to their citizenry.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
GCC Regional Report 2015
Introduction
Regional wealth funds, free-trade zones and the Saudi Stock Exchange are expected to boost GCC economic growth and spur development—even if oil doesn’t cooperate.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
GCC Sees Its Future In Trade
GCC Regional Report 2015 | Trade
GCC With oil prices not expected to top $100 a barrel anytime soon, breaking down trade barriers is the one sure way to boost the GCC’s economic prospects.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Oil’s Well That Ends Well
GCC Regional Report 2015 | Oil Prices
GCC countries are weathering low oil prices surprisingly well, cushioned by sovereign funds, economic diversification and development.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Equities | Foreign Institutions To Deepen Saudi Stock Market
Saudi Arabia | When the Saudi Arabian stock market, or the Tadawul as it is known, opens to direct investment by qualified foreign institutions for the first time on June 15, it will begin a transformation of the biggest bourse in the Middle East.
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Islamic Finance 2015 | Growth Strategies In Lebanon
Q&A with Moataz Natafji, general manager, BLOM Development Bank, the Islamic subsidiary of BLOM Bank, Beirut, Lebanon