Banking & Finance
A bleak job market threatens to stall Gulf countries' efforts to increase local participation in the private sector.
Banking & Finance
Many analysts predicted a loosening of credit restrictions in the first quarter of 2009 but that relief has yet to come.
Banking & Finance
Arabian Business examines why the Mideast should be well on the path to recovery by end of 2009.
Banking & Finance
As many as 50,000 South Africans have moved to the UAE amid rising unemployment at home where one in four people in the country don't have a job. But what will it take to convince them to return home?
Banking & Finance
Political turmoil and rising unemployment are fuelling a new exodus of ethnic minorities from South Africa - many of them destined for skill-starved Gulf economies. As dissidents prepare to abandon the ruling African National Congress, Nobel laureate and former president FW de Klerk explains why the country risks becoming mired in a new form of institutionalised racism.
Banking & Finance
Facilities managers looking to implement best practice in the Middle East could do worse than study the IT asset management trends in the UK and US, brought into sharp focus by the economic downturn and lack of liquidity.
Banking & Finance
Yes it’s that time of the year again – the publication of the Arabian Business Rich List. As always, it has been a mammoth effort compiling the wealth of the world’s fifty richest Arabs – the risers, the fallers and the newcomers to this exclusive club.
Banking & Finance
Countries injected billions to shore up financial systems as investment banks posted heavy losses due to subprime exposure.
Banking & Finance
The GCC must move to an economic model that emphasises sustainable development.
Banking & Finance
For Antwerp, the world's biggest gem trading hub, diamonds may not be its best friend after all.
Banking & Finance
The Entrepreneur of the Year Awards brought together some of the region's best and the brightest.
Banking & Finance
Why the place is a feeding ground for hedge funds tapping the wealth of people like Kunihisa Sagami.
Banking & Finance
With repossessions looming large on the horizon, Alex Delmar-Morgan reports on what the banks need to do.
Banking & Finance
With stock markets plummeting, anxious investors are asking whether there is anything left to invest in.
Banking & Finance
Investment has flooded into North Africa, but can Gulf developers now deliver on earlier promises?
Banking & Finance
The inaugural event hosted by YourBusiness took place on the 20th October at the Park Hyatt to a gathering that included companies each with a vested interest in the GCC region, and in the growth of the small business market in particular.
Banking & Finance
As UAE banks begin to feel the bite of the global credit crisis, consolidation could finally be on the cards.
Banking & Finance
Bahraini banks' exposure to foreign investment could soon present a significant challenge.
Banking & Finance
As global asset valuations take a battering, these are interesting times for the region's private equity players.
Banking & Finance
With no CEO, outdated core banking systems and just seven IT staff, Commercial Bank International knew its operations needed a revamp. Imthishan Giado reports on how fresh thinking turned the bank around.
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