Bank Al Baraka Lebanon has a new management and new dynamics. The bank, which has five branches here and operates according to Islamic banking principles, is part of the Dalla Al Baraka Group, whose principal shareholder is billionaire Saudi financier, Sheikh Salah Kamel. The group includes banks and asset management operations in the Middle East. Executive spoke to the chairman of Al Baraka Lebanon, Tameem Jad, about the restructuring and development of the bank in Lebanon and the region. In the middle of last year, you became CEO of Al Baraka Bank in Lebanon. What was the focus of your activities? Al Baraka bank has been operating here since 1992, but it was not very active. The bank needs a lot of things and for the last six months we have been restructuring. When I started here, I checked all our business: 70% of all our business was Murabaha, which
