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Some business success stories surprise like new gourmet recipes. It occasionally happens that culinary innovations start with ingredients which by and in themselves do not appeal to everyone as superb delights for the senses—for example liverwurst and artichokes, or Brussels sprouts and tofu—but make a winning dish when combined. Likewise, hardcore banking and software development might, each on their own terms, be perceived as stale, boring, and tedious activities. But when the two ingredients are being composed into a menu of refined products in a company like Beirut-based Capital Banking Solutions (CBS) they can excite not only their cooks, but also make money in global markets and entice investors.      CBS is an 11-year old company that according to CEO Samer Hanna has around 270 employees, half of whom are in Lebanon. He tells Executive that the other half are located in offices in Monaco, Paris, Geneva, Abidjan, New