Bahrain wins Global Best to Invest Award
Bahrain has been honored at the eighth annual "Global Best to Invest Awards", which has recognized the Kingdom as the…
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US Reveals How Much Treasury Debt Saudi Arabia Owns
Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities rose in March, with the Treasury Department revealing for the first time in four…
IDB Group and World Bank Group Produce Global Report on Islamic Finance
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Group and the World Bank Group have jointly produced a global report on Islamic finance.…
National Bank of Egypt sells $169 mln worth of special certificates
National Bank of Egypt, the country's largest state bank, sold 1.5 billion Egyptian pounds ($169 million) worth of special certificates…
Israeli Forex Head: Only a Few Firms Might Remain in the Market
The Israeli online trading industry is having a very hard time recently due to the harsh actions of the local…
Global prudential body to fine-tune oversight of Islamic finance
The body governing prudential standards in global Islamic finance plans to tighten oversight of market practices and revise capital adequacy…
Tehran timidity says more about banks than Iran
The United States really wants European banks to lend to Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry used a London meeting…
UAE banks have to be made accountable for admin errors
An ode to remember: Complain to your bank and it’ll say no but then it’s off to…
IDB Global Forum to Explore Role of Islamic Finance in SDGs
A global forum convened by the Islamic Research and Training Institute will consider the potential role of Islamic finance in…
QCB assures confidence in Qatar with a solid financial framework
Governor of Qatar Central Bank Sheikh Abdulla Bin Saoud Al-Thani explains the dynamic changes, both internally and externally, affecting the…
Bahrain, Lebanon, Nauru, Panama and Vanuatu have now committed to the international standard of automatic exchange of financial account information to tackle tax evasion and avoidance
The OECD and the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes announced today that Bahrain, Lebanon,…
Bahrain’s Al Baraka Islamic Bank Gets Approval to Operate in Morocco
After receiving approval from Morocco’s central bank, Al Baraka Banking Group will invest in the Moroccan Islamic banking sector by…