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You may have seen some references to this survey in press articles. The Middle East survey, which really seems to be focused primarily on t...

حقل الأحلام الكويت If you build it, he may not come after all.   AlQabas has a summary of a recent Middle East Economic Digest ("ME...

Apparently heeding the comments of  The Rageful Cynic on this blog,  Paul Koster, CEO of the DFSA called for improvements in local auditing...

In April 2008, Markaz issued its first report on the "Golden Portfolio" – the various stocks held by GCC government owned enterp...

Bank Run 1933  USA National Archives  (In the Public Domain) Tom Arnold over at The National reports that "Gulf governments have bee...

AlQabas reports that the GCC has rejected recent European attempts to revive the trade talks.  The key issue is the right of states to impo...

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May Khamis and Abdelhak Senhadji co-ordinated a team comprising Maher Hasan, Francis Kumah,  Ananthakrishnan Prasad, and Gabriel Sensenbren...

Officials from Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia met in Riyadh today to discuss plans for unified banking regulations and supervision ...

As per Dubai's Khaleej Times , both S&P and UBS are predicting a rough 2010 for Gulf banks due to increased non performing loans (...

Zawya Dow Jones interview with Adnan Yousif Monday on the sidelines of an Abu Dhabi conference. Anticipates 60% recovery as both groups ha...

If you're following Saudi Zain, a couple of articles from the Saudi Gazette. One on growth in the mobile phone market - a reminder th...

As we are informed by The National, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) yesterday launched a regional credit-ratings system through which compan...

Asharq AlAwsat reports on comments by Abdulrahman Hamad AlAttiyah, the Secretary General of the GCC, from a Qatari-Saudi business conferenc...

  The GCC-China Economic Forum will hold its inaugural meeting this March 23-24 in Bahrain under the patronage of Bahrain's Prime Mini...

The study finds that most of the slowdown in MENA Emerging Markets (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, and Tunisia) and the GCC ...

 Markaz has published another of its insightful research pieces.  This one is on the GCC banking sector in 2009. Here's sample par...

INSOL International, the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and  Bankruptcy Professionals , will hold its first ever M...

A new addition to the roll of Interesting Blogs and Other Links:    Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gul...

This is part of the Kuwait Project on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States being undertaken by the LSE.   The report...