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Interviews & Viewpoints | Ahmed Alkholifey, Governor, Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA): Interview from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2020
Articles & Analysis | Saudi Arabia's banking sector enters a challenging 2020 with strong fundamentals from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2020
Saudi Arabia is home to more than 27% of the GCC’s total banking assets, and is the region’s second-largest banking industry in terms of assets and the largest in terms of market capitalisation. Having achieved promising profit growth in 2019, the sector entered 2020 ready to capitalise on the opportunities presented by the Kingdom’s ambitious...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Tareq Al Sadhan, CEO, Riyad Bank: Interview from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2020
How are digitalisation and financial technology (fintech) positively disrupting retail banking?
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 invests in financial education and training from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2020
In recent years the government has sought to increase the number of nationals in the workforce through Saudiisation policies, which mandate that companies have a certain percentage of Saudi citizens in each position. However, the policy has presented significant challenges for many sectors that still rely heavily on expatriate labour.
The ongoing process of privatisation...