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International expansion has been the inclination of many of Lebanon’s banks in recent years, and being no strangers to unpredictable security conditions, frequent electrical outages and the slow crawl of …

It has been 20 years since the end of the war, but we still haven’t seriously started reconstructing the country,” said Serge Yazigi, head of the Majal urban observatory, part …

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 …

The board of directors of Lebanon’s Banking Control Commission were finally appointed on March 3 by a unanimous vote of the Cabinet. After more than a month without a board, …

Six of the United Arab Emirate’s banks control 60 percent of the banking market, according to Emirates Business 24|7 analysis, suggesting that mergers and acquisitions are needed in the banking …

Hard power dominates the Middle East. The prospect of military conflict is never too far away and economic sanctions are familiar to many countries in the region. Vali Nasr, professor …

There’s a shift going on in the retail world. Where once manufacturers competed against one another for consumer loyalty, today they face sharp competition  from retailers, the very places that …

Recently, the satellite providers Nilesat and Arabsat decided on a unilateral basis to block the Al Alam Arabic-speaking Iranian pro-government channel. Without delving into the underlying causes which triggered it, …