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Lebanon saw a 38.7 percent rise in check clearing activity in the first quarter of 2010. According to figures released by the Association of Banks in Lebanon, total cleared checks …

Creative Solution for Housing is a Lebanese real estate advisory and consultancy firm. Established in 2009, the company aims to introduce a ‘pay as you grow’ housing loan scheme for …

“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore,” said the American author and humorist Mark Twain. Following Twain’s advice in a small country like Lebanon makes sense, as both the country’s …

Grandiose visions of splendor have dissipated for Dubai’s developers after a sobering couple of years spent rethinking their payment schemes and trying to re-galvanize investor confidence. Now they are left …

Whenever an automaker departs significantly from its own standards and norms, it raises certain questions about the maker, the marque, and the industry as a whole. Manufacturers — and sport …

June. The grip of football fever will soon engulf the globe as all eyes turn to South Africa, the host nation of one of the biggest events on the planet: …

The interest rate subsidies granted by the central bank to 60 percent of lending sectors in July and September of 2009 have been extended until June 2011. The original circulars …

Credit Agricole Suisse is the main private banking arm of Credit Agricole Group, with Middle East offices in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Beirut, Doha and Dubai. Executive recently sat down with …

Over the course of July and August 2006, Israeli air strikes pounded Beirut’s southern suburb of Haret Hreik, pulverizing infrastructure and forcing many of the quarter’s residents to flee. Four …

In the beginning there were three risks. Or at least that is how the pre-1970s corporate observers and academics saw it. Like many fields of science, the initial elegant simplicity …