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Interviews & Viewpoints | Tareq Al Sadhan, CEO, Riyad Bank: Interview from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2020
Articles & Analysis | Firms in emerging markets respond to retrenchment of overseas operations by major banks from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2020
The three decades before the 2007-08 global financial crisis were marked by the world’s financial networks becoming increasingly interconnected. Financial system regulatory convergence, the growing penetration of World Trade Organisation rules and the creation of currency unions, such as the euro, resulted in a surge in cross-border capital...
Articles & Analysis | Saudi Arabia increases its investment footprint abroad from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2020
Saudi Arabia has been dramatically increasing the volume of investment outside of its borders in line with economic development goals. The Kingdom’s investments abroad have increased almost threefold in recent years, rising from $7.3bn in 2017 to $21.2bn in 2018, according to the “World Investment Report 2019”, published by the UN Conference...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Fahd Al Rasheed, President, Royal Commission for Riyadh City (RCRC): Interview from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2020
In which ways are Riyadh’s mega-projects set to increase the city’s commercial activities?
Articles & Analysis | The impact of lower corporate tax rates on developed and developing economies from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2020
Recent decades have seen a downward convergence in corporate tax regimes as advanced, emerging and developing economies moved to grab a bigger slice of the global investment pie. Headline corporate tax rates have fallen by 20 percentage points since the early 1980s. Alongside lower average rates, special tax incentives aimed at capturing...
Articles & Analysis | New incentives attract investors to Saudi Arabia from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2020
The effort to enhance the Kingdom’s competitiveness as a destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) is taking place across a wide front. However, three initiatives in particular have caught the attention of the global investment community during 2019.