The popular Lebanese food chain Kabab-ji is a success story of entrepreneurial knack, making the restaurant an attractive target for private equity investment. The restaurant recently received growth capital from …
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At the close of 2008, most financial analysts and observers of the Casablanca Stock Exchange (Bourse des Valeurs de Casablanca, BVC) agree that the market remains sheltered from the financial …
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Since the assassination of Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005, the Lebanese tourism industry has fallen victim to one crisis after the other. This year, as feuding political factions struck …
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The ongoing global financial crisis has had limited effects on the Saudi banking sector. Fighting through recent years — with the 2006 stock market crash and a bullish year in …
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North Africa started in 2008 as the least-noticed market in the region, but it has emerged to become a new investment destination for private equity firms. While most region specific …
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Tunisia’s Bourse des Valeurs Mobilieres (BVMT) is expected to remain relatively immune to the international financial crisis in 2009. Mokdadi Hamadi, CEO of UBCI Finance, said that in light of …
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For most people, Lebanon is synonymous with shopping and partying galore. However, its Mediterranean atmosphere offers a wide variety of handsome landscapes — unusual when compared to neighboring countries where …
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The Kuwaiti banking sector has learned a great lesson in the immediate aftermath of the global crisis. Financial challenges began in the third quarter, when the central bank decided to …
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Is Iraq ripe for private equity investment? The idea of putting a high performing asset class in what is still considered a war zone seems anathema to many. The lengthy …
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If it takes brief visits to both extremes to plot a middle course, then 2008 provided Turkey with an opportunity to write the manual for the rest of the world. …