Banking and Finance in the Arab Middle East pdf

Fondatore del programma di finanza islamica presso l'Università di Durham, dove continua a essere professore emerito. Visiting Professor presso la Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies e Adjunct Professor presso l'International Center of Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF), Kuala Lumpur. È stato consulente per la governance della Shari'ah presso l'Islamic Financial Services Board, Kuala Lumpur, (2007-9). Ha fornito consulenza alla Banca centrale del Qatar sulla politica monetaria e sui rapporti prudenziali, (2009-10). Ha intrapreso un progetto per la Banca africana di sviluppo sullo stato e il potenziale della finanza islamica in Nord Africa, (2011). Lavorare sui mercati dei capitali in Nord Africa per l'African Development Bank. Ha scritto 12 libri e oltre 40 articoli.

Banking and Finance in the Arab Middle East pdf da 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