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World’s Best Emerging Markets Banks in the Middle East 2013GFMag.com Admin
Global Finance names the World’s Best Emerging Markets Banks 2013 in the Middle East NEW YORK, March 20, 2013 Global...
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Country Report: Lebanon
DRAGGING A GEOPOLITICAL ANCHOR By Justin Keay There were few bright spots for Lebanon over the past year. However, the banking and real estate sectors showed encouraging signs, and a recovery has begun. Despite their traditional stoicism, ...
Banking
Emerging Markets Roundup: Middle East
DUBAI SEEKS ROLE AS CAPITAL OF ISLAMIC ECONOMY By Gordon Platt Dubai plans to become the capital of the Islamic economy by setting global standards. In addition to promoting Islamic finance and insurance, the emirate wants to arbitrate ...
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Middle East Investment Banking
SIGNS OF RESILIENCE By Gordon Platt In spite of poor global economic and investment conditions, Middle Eastern investment banking looks set for another solid year in 2013. The outlook for investment banking in the volatile Middle East ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Newsmaker: Speculation Is Rife About Fischer’s Next Move
NEWSMAKER ISRAEL By David Lipkin Stanley Fischer is set to retire as governor of the Bank of Israel at the end of June. Fischer, guardian of Israel’s economy, bows out gracefully He will be remembered as one of ...
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Safest Banks in the Middle East and Africa: April 2013
Global Finance names the Safest Banks in the Middle East and Africa: April 2013 NEW YORK, February 26, 2013 Global...
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Country Report: Saudi Arabia
RESISTANT TO CHANGE By Gordon Platt Saudi Arabia is working hard—and spending heavily—to diversify its economy and create jobs for its expanding population through a broad-ranging series of reforms. But these reforms are ruffling feathers in some quarters. ...
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Country Report: Kuwait
SURMOUNTING THE STATUS QUO By Justin Keay Despite its wealth and strong banking sector, Kuwait is being held back by its failure to invest internally and diversify away from oil. The demonstrations that preceded—and followed—Kuwait’s parliamentary elections ...
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Dubai Commodities Exchange Craves More Market Share
MILESTONES: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES By Anita Hawser Dubai Mercantile Exchange is on a mission: It wants to take up more space on the screens of futures traders, according to new CEO Christopher Fix, who once sat on the ...
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Emerging Markets Roundup: Middle East
NEW SAUDI MORTGAGE LAW COULD SPUR HOUSING BOOM By Gordon Platt The Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, the kingdom’s central bank, issued new regulations governing the enforcement of foreclosures as part of a new mortgage law that has been ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Emerging Markets Review: Middle East Oil Glut
OIL GLUT By Gordon Platt High oil prices have enabled the Middle East’s major oil producers to finance infrastructure investments despite the global slowdown. But the jig might soon be up. With its massive inflow of oil-export ...