If anything can be reliably forecast amid the growing upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa, it is the direction of global food prices. They have currently settled at …
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A word with leading Lebanese banking luminaries: Bank Audi’s Chief Financial Officer Freddie Baz, Byblos Bank’s General Manager François Bassil and Saad Azhari, chairman of BLOM Bank discuss the state …
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With praise from international media raining in for his steadiness at Lebanon’s financial helm, Executive sat down with Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh to discuss the current and future state …
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In an economy such as the United Arab Emirates, where the government has significant stakes in several of the largest banks, it is hard to isolate successes and attribute them …
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Car accidents in Lebanon increase, on average, 12 to 15 percent every year according to KunHadi, an organization dedicated to road safety education. The group says that on …
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Saad Mered is the Middle East chief executive officer of Zurich Insurance Company and now holds the reigns at Compagnie Libanaise D’Assurances (CLA), after Zurich Insurance completed the …
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Finding the answer to the euro/dollar exchange rate equation is like evaluating two sides of the same coin. The question is, which one will land face up, and when? …
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The term ‘stock market’ has quite a ring to it, particularly in the mouths of emotionally-invested stock market officials. Listening to them explaining the appeal and importance of securities trading …
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Christos Papadopoulos has been six months on the job as regional chief executive officer for the Middle East and North Africa at Standard Chartered. He recently sat down with Executive …
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When female banking executives discuss their path to the top, the word lucky is almost always mentioned. They were lucky that their experience was without gender discrimination or sexual harassment. …