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Browsing: Issue 25 January / February 2014
Leading names and key regulators in the international Islamic banking and finance industry took part in the 20th Anniversary Special…
MENA’s top talent in accountancy and finance were celebrated at the third annual Middle East Accountancy and Finance Excellence Awards…
Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP), the Multilateral Development Bank owned by the 10 member nations of the Organisation of Arab…
Steve Troop, CEO, Barwa Bank – Qatar’s fastest growing Shari’ah compliant banking service provider – has been named “Banking CEO…
The demand for trade finance is rising in Saudi Arabia as the Kingdom’s non-oil exports hit 51,536 million riyals for…
The Aman Union Database has now been launched by Dr Abdel Rahman El-Tayeb Taha, the Secretary General of the Aman…
Standard Chartered has launched a wholesale banking operations in Iraq with the opening of a head office (and first branch)…
Mozambique has recently joined the Aa3-rated Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC), bringing the number…
The second regional CFO conference organised by the Middle East CFO Alliance last December at the Ritz Carlton, Dubai, was…
The Capital Finance International (CPI) 2013 award to Euler Hermes GCC as the “Best Credit Insurance Services and Solutions Provider…
The ‘cloud’ is the next big step in IT for treasury operations. PAUL MELLY looks at the advantages and risks…
As the US limbers up to become the world’s largest oil producer by 2015 thanks to fracking, OPEC members are…
In Q3 2013 the corporate banking and trade finance segment in the KSA continued its strong performance against the key…
A MENA consortium is preparing to start up a banking operation that will be headquartered in Luxembourg and have branches…
If 2013 was a year of consolidation following the record year of 2012 especially for Sukuk origination and syndicated Murabaha…