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Generating liquidity growth is a concern for the management and regulators of exchanges across the region. As markets from Kuwait to Muscat battle for investment flows, the long-term future of the Bahrain Bourse (BHB) depends upon its ability to attract fresh capital to its increasing array of investment instruments. Most of its major...

The ability of Bahrain’s government to maintain its infrastructure development programme and a GDP per capita of nearly $50,000, according to KPMG, should combine to generate ample opportunities for the kingdom’s banks to grow their assets. However, potential sector expansion is limited by the fact that the domestic market, characterised by a...

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) are popular investment instruments in developed markets, but a relatively new phenomenon in GCC exchanges. Nasdaq Dubai became the first exchange in the region to list a REIT in 2014, and in January 2016 Saudi Arabia’s market regulator approved the listing rules that will govern the instruments in the...