From his office in Paris overlooking the Seine, 47-year-old Fady Michel Abouchalache, Chief Executive Officer of Quilvest group with $18 billion in assets under management, is proud to show off…
Maya Sioufi
Maya Sioufi
Maya is a research consultant on Arab youth entrepreneurship and employment. She headed Executive's banking, finance and entrepreneurship sections from 2011 to 2013. Previously, she worked at JP Morgan in London in equity sales for three years. She holds an MSc in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a BA in Economics from the American University of Beirut (AUB).
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The Lebanese government would be broke if it were not for the country’s banks. For decades the banks have lent to the sovereign to help make up the vast difference…
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It seems like a sweet payoff to invest in films these days. Take for example the the hit comedy “The Hangover”, which cost $35 million to produce and earned $242…
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To say that Internet and social media usage in the Middle East and North Africa is expanding exponentially has become a truism of our time, but like the dinosaurs that…
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Even as the fabric that once held together the brokerage industry in the United Arab Emirates comes apart, the steps taken by the country’s stock exchanges and its regulator to…
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Stock exchanges in the Gulf Cooperation Council are still relatively young and have not reached the degree of sophistication of their Western peers. To discuss what GCC exchanges can do…
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The brokerage business in the United Arab Emirates is collapsing. Those brokers that survived 2011 know the cull will continue in the year ahead, and that their numbers will be…
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Brokers in the United Arab Emirates are in serious trouble. Half of the industry went out of business in 2011 and more closures are expected in 2012 as volumes in…
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The economic crisis has hit, among other things, the pockets of potential Masters of Business Administration (MBA) candidates, many of whom are choosing to postpone their studies or seek alternatives…
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Envisioning the start of 2012, investors across the Middle East probably could not have conceived of a more nightmarish scenario if they tried. The European debt crisis, Arab revolutions and…