The Storm Is Not Over Yet Emerging market equities offer long-term opportunities
The escalation of the eurozone debt crisis in the second quarter of 2012 has dimmed the prospects for the…
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Middle East Investment banking is booming…
Investment banking boomed in the region during the second quarter of this year. Share issues raised $4 billion during the…
Mideast M&A activity surges 45% to $8.5b in Q2
Mergers and acquisition activity in the Middle East surged 45 per cent in the second quarter to $8.5 billion on…
Dark Cloaks & Dark Pools: Brighter Bankers & Brighter Culture by Justin Urquhart Stewart
In these fetid days of opprobrium for banks, there have inevitably arisen many populist cries for anything from root…
Tentative times for ME investments
Investment banking in the Middle East continued to face challenges in the first half of this year as European and…
"Lebanese Banking Sector is Extremely Liquid" says Blom Bank
Banking activity weathered softer economic conditions and heightened developments in the region, while profits lulled due to higher provisions and…
Europe crisis an opportune time for GCC to develop its economy
Last week, the German Parliament approved the adoption of fiscal and ESM treaty hoping to overcome the current economic debt…
Preserving wealth most important aspect of managing investments – study
The 2012 survey, undertaken by J.P. Morgan Private Bank, was conducted with more than 120 single family offices across the…
Fund houses eye Middle Eastern wealth
At a behind-closed-doors roundtable* in Singapore last month, senior investment executives discussed the potential for drawing on the substantial pool…
Asian gains to boost Gulf sentiment
Heavyweight lender Qatar National Bank is expected to report a rise in quarterly net profit on Wednesday, while investors in…
Long-term investors are quietly putting money into India
India has gone from the country set to overtake China to the country that can do nothing right. Now, a…
GCC banks can beat their chests, but must be wary
Executives at major GCC banks have every right to feel slightly smug as European lenders grapple with the euro-zone crisis,…