Following unprecedented financial turmoil, investment scandals and the decline in world wealth, private banks and wealth managers are facing enormous challenges. Profits are declining, regulatory requirements are growing, compliance measures …
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When the tourism minister starts talking about how we should change the country’s strategy from attracting “land” tourists to “air” tourists you know that the industry, which props up around …
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He may be a business-savvy art connoisseur with a scholar’s comprehension of modern Arab art, a buyer for the London-based Fine Art Fund Group and a founder of Lebanon’s Agial …
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An avid Lebanese contemporary art enthusiast, Marwan Kheireddine, chief executive officer at Al Mawarid Bank, recently sat down with Executive to talk about his personal art collection, his take on …
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Rami El Nimer is general manager at First National Bank (FNB) and an experienced art collector. He chatted with Executive about how his art collection fed on history and identity, …
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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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When Beirut’s wealth managers talk about the financial crisis, their language is decidedly emotional. They speak of the “support” they gave their clients as they watched their portfolios crumble. …
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Summer in the Middle East is typically a time when life slows down; business deals are put off until everyone has finished their vacations and the weather has cooled …
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Nine new merger and acquisition (M&A) plans with potential worth of well over $12.4 billion have been announced by companies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), according to …
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Nestled amid pine trees in the Naas area of Bikfaya in Mount Lebanon, sits an old abandoned factory in which Lebanon’s cleanest and healthiest mineral water used to be …