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25th World Islamic Banking Conference announces 4th Series of WIBC Leaderboard to foster global Islamic banking

Top performing Islamic Financial Institutions from Bahrain, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Turkey, UAE and Saudi Arabia are vying for the WIBC Awards recognizing the Best Performing Banks at the Global and Regional level Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain, 22 October 2018: A testament to its vision of advancing the global Islamic banking industry, the 25th World Islamic Banking …

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Surecomp Announces 2018-19 SWIFT Readiness

Hamburg, Germany, May 15, 2018 – Surecomp®, the leading global provider of trade finance solutions for banks and corporates, announced today that its entire suite of trade finance and supply chain finance solutions are prepared to fully support SWIFT’s rigorous new standards. In both 2018 and 2019, SWIFT is making revolutionary changes to the standards for Letters of Credit and …

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Banque Saudi Fransi Confirms Platinum Sponsorship for Saudi Trade Finance Summit

QnA International hosts 4th annual Saudi Trade Finance Summit in Jeddah Jeddah, 27thJune, 2016 –The upcoming 4thAnnual Saudi Trade Finance (STF) Summit, organized by Dubai based QnA International has cemented its position as the premier gathering to discuss financial regulations, strategies and services development and trends shaping the economy and the business landscape in the Kingdom. The STF Summit is …

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Falcon Group signs partnership with Ingram Micro company, Aptec

Press Release 20 April 2016 Falcon Group has partnered with Aptec, an Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM) company, allowing the company to offer extended payment terms to its resellers, above and beyond its current payment period – creating differential advantage in the GCC region. Addressing the demands across the marketplace, this unique arrangement is aimed at improving liquidity within the distribution channel, …

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Clarifying Supply Chain Finance

Supply chain finance has been a growth area in recent years, yet there has been a growing feeling within the industry that its practitioners have – at times – been speaking in tongues. The new Standard Definitions for Techniques of Supply Chain Finance will hopefully go some way to address this confusion in supply chain finance terminology. Supply chain finance …

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AMCHAM, WESTPOINT HOME MEET MINISTER OF INDUSTRY, ANNOUNCE $9 MILLION EXPANSION INVESTMENT IN BAHRAIN

Manama, Bahrain –   04 January 2016:  WestPoint Home LLC (WPH) with the American Chamber of Commerce Bahrain (AmCham) met with the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, H.E. Zayed R. Alzayani, to discuss further investment in the Kingdom of Bahrain and how WPH will mitigate the impact of the potential expiration of the Tariff Preference Level (TPL) that allows duty …

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Oussama Abdel Rahman Kaissi New Chief Executive Officer of ICIEC

Jeddah October, 2015 The Board of Directors of the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC), a Member of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has appointed Mr. Oussama Abdel Rahman Kaissi as Chief Executive Officer of ICIEC. Mr. Oussama Kaissi has over twenty eight years of diverse experience in the insurance and Takaful industry. Out of …

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