In 2016 Boursa Kuwait, the new operator of the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE), set about implementing its long list of regulatory improvements that will align the country’s stock market with the most advanced in the region. This process is continuing in 2017, with every month seeing announcements regarding new products and services aimed at...
Like most GCC economies, Kuwait is well known for its buy-side investment activity – a result of its historic ability to transform oil revenues into global investments aimed at securing future economic sustainability. However, as the nation enters a third year of lower oil prices, Kuwait’s attractiveness as a destination for inward investment...
Amid challenging local and regional conditions, how is the CBK looking to maintain a stable and robust financial environment?
In a lower oil price environment such as the one that has persisted since late 2014, banking sectors in the GCC find themselves under heightened scrutiny. Kuwait is no exception, but where other banking sectors in the region have been compelled to face sizeable cutbacks in government spending, the nation’s deep reserves have enabled it to...
With billions of dinars worth of short-term spending plans and a new vision for economic transformation over the next two decades, Kuwait offers opportunities for investment across a range of sectors. While the country adopted a save and prosper approach during the oil boom years of 2010-14, the prolonged reduction in oil prices experienced...
When Kuwait raised $8bn in its first international bond sale in March 2017, Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al Mubarak Al Hamad Al Sabah said the country intended to be a prudent borrower, and it can afford to be. Kuwait’s economy may be dominated by oil, but it can tolerate a lower fiscal break-even price for the commodity than any of its...
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