Banking and Finance in the Arab Middle East pdf

Fundador del programa de finanzas islámicas en la Universidad de Durham, donde sigue siendo profesor emérito. Profesor invitado en la Facultad de Estudios Islámicos de Qatar y profesor adjunto en el Centro Internacional de Educación en Finanzas Islámicas (INCEIF), Kuala Lumpur. Se desempeñó como asesor sobre la gobernabilidad de la Shari'ah para la Junta de Servicios Financieros Islámicos, Kuala Lumpur, (2007-9). Asesoró al Banco Central de Qatar sobre política monetaria y coeficientes prudenciales (2009-10). Realizó un proyecto para el Banco Africano de Desarrollo sobre el estado y el potencial de las finanzas islámicas en el norte de África (2011). Trabajando en mercados de capital en el norte de África para el Banco Africano de Desarrollo. Escribió 12 libros y más de 40 artículos.

Banking and Finance in the Arab Middle East pdf por Rodney Wilson

During the last two decades commercial banking has been expanding more rapidly in the Arab Middle East than in any other area of the world. As recently as the early 1960s much of the region remained unmonetised and the existing financial institutions were small in size, catering primarily for the requirements of the limited domestic markets. The region's only financial links with the outside world were through foreign-owned banks, and no indigenous commercial bank had internationalised its operations to any significant extent. Apart from Beirut there was no centre which served wider regional needs, and even the Lebanese capital was of only limited importance internationally. Yet today the whole Arab Middle Eastern financial scene has been transformed, with a tremendous proliferation of local banks, a rapid expansion of branch networks, and an enormous widening in the range of financial services provided by indigenous institutions. The region's banks are now strongly represented in major international financial centres, and there are already twenty Arab Middle Eastern banks included in the world's top five hundred banks. At the same time, although expatriates still occupy many key positions in commercial banking, a new generation of bankers native to the region is playing a growing role in Arab finance. Overall a solid foundation for financial activity has been laid, and there is little doubt that, barring political catastrophes, the remainder of the present decade and the 1990s should witness further sustained progress