Over the past 20 years of banking growth, the UAE has become a biosphere of financial institutions – local, foreign, specialized, conventional, and sharia-compliant – to a total sector count …
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Journalists killed on duty 1992-2007 The Committee to Protect Journalists applies strict journalistic standards when investigating a death. It considers a case “confirmed” only if it is reasonably certain that …
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What some analysts camouflaged as “the events in North Lebanon” in the last third of May wiped out modest gains, which the BLOM index had made in the first part …
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Growth in the MENA region is enticing strategic partnerships between governments and private companies to create infrastructure critical to support and sustain growth. A Public Private Partnership (PPP) provides a …
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The May visit by IMF Deputy Managing Director Murilo Portugal saw him deliver a combination of praise for efforts to strengthen Tunisia’s banking sector, with warnings regarding the continuing worry …
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Morocco’s Central Bank, Bank al-Maghrib (BAM), is joining the growing trend in embracing sharia-compliant finance. For some time, regulators had outlawed banks from offering such products. However, earlier this year, …
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The proposed privatization of Credit Populaire d’Algerie (CPA) has shown the government’s renewed confidence in the private sector, with several international players bidding. Four years after the collapse of Khalifa …
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In the last few years, leading Lebanese banks – Byblos Bank, Fransabank, Bank of Beirut and Audi Saradar – have set up shop in Khartoum. The expansion of Lebanese banks …
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The flurry of mergers and acquisitions that has taken place in Egypt over the past few years continues apace, egged on by the Central Bank as part of the state’s …
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Last month, the governor of Kuwait’s central bank, Sheikh Salem Abdelaziz al-Sabah, announced that his national currency would no longer be pegged to the US dollar. It was a shock …