NEWS IN BRIEF
A round up of the key news from the Emerging Markets
MARKET ROUND UP
A round up of news from the Emerging Markets
ARAB BANK: A NEW BEGINNING
Dubai Outsource Zone (DOZ), a member of Tecom Investments, in September announced the Arab Company for Shared Services commenced Arab Bank’s Gulf and Yemen back-office operations at the world's first special economic zone dedicated to the outsourcing industry....
THE DOWNSTREAM DRIVE
Sharia-compliant Islamic financial institutions, as a direct consequence of being prohibited from accessing interbank money markets and trading short-term debt instruments except at face value, have generally maintained high liquidity and face a problem with r...
LEGISLATING FOR INVESTMENT
The inclusion of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) into the World Trade Organisation in 2005 has resulted in a transformation of trade policies that previously acted as protectionist measures against international traders wanting to enter the Saudi market. Nichola...
SAUDI ARABIA: THE INVESTMENT IMPERATIVE
Short term market tumult aside, Saudi Arabia retains its long term promise as a source of vital liquidity fuelling global growth in the 2009/2010 period and as a key inward investment destination. The Kingdom says it intends to forge ahead with a $400bn-plus i...
WHICH WAY OPPORTUNITY
Before the drop in global oil prices, Fitch Ratings had upgraded Saudi Arabia's sovereign ratings as a result of the Kingdom's rapidly increasing oil revenues. The ratings agency also noted that even if there were to be a sharp decline in oil prices to as low ...
TAKAFUL - BALANCING REGULATION AND GROWTH
While the mainstream Islamic finance industry has witnessed healthy growth over the last ten years, takaful-dedicated funds are few and far between (with notable examples in Malaysia, Singapore and Bahrain). However, this does not properly reflect the emergenc...
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