Banking & Finance

On any given day, a scour of Middle East business news reveals that private equity in the region is ‘hot’, owing to favorable conditions at the macroeconomic level or data …

What could prompt the cooperative efforts of a Lebanese bank to engage a French building materials company and 15 additional regional and international financial institutions from all over the globe …

As most airlines across the globe are responding to high oil prices by making personnel cutbacks, being especially selective with their routes and even grounding planes, there is no sign …

With property prices around the country appreciating significantly, more and more Lebanese are trying to beat the inflationary trend by buying a home. And the country’s banks are offering a …

In a notoriously image-conscious society, the launch of First National Bank’s (FNB) plastic surgery loan last year in Lebanon made sense. Though some social controversy initially surrounded the idea of …

In September 2006, the IMF in its Global Economic Output report projected that the US will be “the engine of global economic growth despite some uncertainty in the housing sector.” …

The leader in Middle Eastern primary market action in August came — as has been the case for several other months of this year — from Saudi Arabia. The initial …

Commodities have driven the early summer buzz in international markets, from heated debates over new potential oil price highs and China’s expansion in international mining to merger games at the …

The United Arab Emirates has finally decided to go ahead with a new commercial law that would allow family owned firms to go public and list on the country’s two …