Buildings go up and banks earn profits; it’s a simple fact of life in any reasonably functioning economy. Both the banking and the real estate industries would most probably prefer …
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Watches. “You either love them or you don’t care,” said Ronan Keating, sitting back on an overstuffed armchair in the library of IWC Schaffhausen’s new downtown boutique. Keating cares. In …
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EFG-Hermes is looking once again to control a Lebanese bank, but this time, it appears it may be successful. The largest publically traded investment bank in the Arab world announced …
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If Muwaffak Bibi is in charge of your money, then you’re sitting on at least $25 million. The regional head of Citi Private Bank recently sat down with Executive to …
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2010 net profits and growth First half 2010 financials from Lebanon’s Alpha Banks Lebanese alpha banks continued to gain profits and assets in the first half of 2010 with Bank …
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Before 2006, Near East Commercial Bank (NECB) was going nowhere. “There was no increase in revenues, no increase in assets — no increase at all,” said Dominique Lang, the Swiss …
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What does luxury powerhouse Louis Vuitton do as designers step away from haute couture and multi-national brands file for bankruptcy? They throw a party – several in fact. Still basking …
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As regional head of commercial banking at HSBC, Simon Vaughan Johnson has a front row seat to the resuscitation of the Middle East’s biggest corporate players. He recently sat down …
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International expansion has been the inclination of many of Lebanon’s banks in recent years, and being no strangers to unpredictable security conditions, frequent electrical outages and the slow crawl of …