Finance

If you have read Executive’s 4-part explainer (see I, II, III, and IV) on Lebanon and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), you may have gained some new insights on the …

The Lebanese journey of, and into, uncertainty is continuing, for the fifth consecutive year – and the nth time in the century-long history of this republic. Albeit under new management, …

Gender quotas and inclusion requirements: are they just a window-dressing tool or a driver of real change?  For decades, the finance industry worldwide has been predominantly male, with Lebanon’s financial …

Lebanon is at a defining moment—a fragile economy teetering between recovery and collapse. “People are hopeful now, but the problem is, people are poor,” says Khalid Zeidan, founder and chairman/general …

By the strange virtue of its unresolved economic and financial crisis of now four year duration, Lebanon has become an examination room and nation-scale laboratory for analyzing an economic and …

Banking everywhere is being confronted with deep societal paradigm shifts and digital transformation challenges. Demands for better governance and heightened societal and environmental accountability are being leveled by civil societies, …

In the annals of economic distress, poignant statements often serve as harbingers of the challenges that lie ahead. Three years ago, then- President Michel Aoun’s proclamation that we were going …

Seen in isolation, the situation of Lebanon at the onset of 2022 is that of a country which is still in the depths of a mindboggling crisis. The national crisis …

The Lebanese national debt, seen in relation to the country’s GDP, has been one of the highest in the world for many years. When the cost of servicing that debt …

The definition of reform in the dictionary is “making changes to something in order to improve it.” [inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”” suffix=””]It seems the fiscal situation in Lebanon has reached a …