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Deloitte survey: CFOs playing bigger role in driving sustainability efforts in their organizations

Nearly one-half (49 percent) of CFOs see sustainability as key driver of financial performance

Private banks set to benefit from Qatar wealth management

Wealth transfer to the next generation provides private banks with opportunities to “deepen relationships” with their clients and “fulfil the social promise as engines of economic prosperity”, says a top Standard Chartered executiv

Oil gains on Middle East tensions not yet enough to threaten global growth - Coutts

The heightened risk of Israel acting unilaterally against the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons has driven the oil price higher.

Qatar International Businesswomen Forum slated for October

"The Forum is going to be a major media event; bigger, better and more influential than last year, and simply unmissable for businesswomen in the Gulf and beyond."

Business ethics: split the myth from the hard reality

Al Gini, a professor of business ethics at the School of Business Administration at Loyola University in Chicago, has a different perspective. He argues that business is not inherently bad, it just happens to offer many temptations – to counter this

SunGard identifies ten asset management trends affecting the fund management industry

Doug Morgan, president of SunGard’s institutional asset management business discuss the top trends affecting the fund management industry in 2012

Bahrain’s Economy Shrinks In Q2

Real GDP expanded but ongoing political unrest continues to dampen the country’s growth.

Barclays’ Azar Sees Pick-Up in Middle East Deals and Fee Income

A total of 194 M&A deals worth $29.7 billion have been announced in the Middle East and North Africa so far this year, down 5.3 percent from 219 deals worth $31.4 billion in the same period last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

GCC banking arena showed rapid growth in the H1

The collective assets of the largest 50 banks in the region increased by 7.7% in the year to 30th June 2012, reaching US$1.28trn.

Hay Group releases its 2012 compensation and benefits report for Bahrain

Hay Group reports that employers in Bahrain are succeeding in retaining employees for the long term and providing equitable, competitive packages.

Barclays sees Middle East driving investment bank

Gulf Arab investors are also targeting options closer to home as they look for places to park their cash.

Global Organisations Unaware Of Their Online Risk Exposure

Many global organisations can do a lot more to protect their private data and reduce exposure to attacks by hackers, according to KPMG.

The Evolution of Investment Reporting by Phil Banas

In his book The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin laid out his theory of evolution, in which he theorized that effective adaptation to their environments led certain organisms to survive and flourish, while those that did so less well fell by the wayside

Burgernomics: the Big Mac Index

The index is not perfect and the relationship does not hold in reality because of a number of factors, but it is useful in highlighting big anomalies. Thus on a light-hearted look, Big Macs are now cheapest in Hong Kong and cost less in London than Zurich

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