The most significant innovation in the Lebanese insurance industry this year is transparency in on-time delivery. For the first time in roughly 60 years of collecting premiums and paying claims, …
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The Association of Insurance Companies in Lebanon (ACAL) is the leading voice representing insurance providers in the country. Executive sat down with ACAL president Assaad Merza to learn about the …
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The Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE) could be considered among the sick children of Middle Eastern bourses. With a tiny market capitalization of $11 billion and an average daily volume of …
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Lebanon has among the slowest broadband Internet speeds in the world. This has been well documented, and as Executive went to press the country was ranked 169 out of 170 …
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Lebanon’s capital market is entering a new era, at least in legislative terms, with parliament’s approval of the long awaited capital market law in August 2011. In a next step, …
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The concept of identity theft has long been a theme of the science fiction world. Jack Finney’s 1954 classic novel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (later adapted into film no …
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A Book by Michael Totten There has been a flurry of books published over the past few years by Westerners, primarily Americans, describing in depth their brief encounters with Lebanon …
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FFA’s Jean Riachi gives high-net worth investors tips on how to get the best out of their private bank
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The attacks perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway on July 22 had the unintended effect of unveiling bias and prejudice in the Western media, and sparked worldwide debates about …
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Fear and panic drove the markets through most of August causing more than $4 trillion in wealth destruction, while policymakers responded with “soft patches” and short-term solutions to what are …