Banking

CFI.co Meets Dr Bernd van Linder

Dr Bernd van Linder has been Managing Director of Saudi Hollandi Bank (SHB) since May 2009. From 2006 to 2009,…

11 years ago

CFI.co Meets Michel Accad: A Q&A Session with the CEO of Gulf Bank

Gulf Bank has made headlines and received several awards recently in part because of its performance in retail banking and…

11 years ago

CFI.co Meets Emídio Pinheiro

BFA CEO Dr Emídio Pinheiro (52) was born in Lisbon and obtained a degree in economics at Universidade Católica de…

11 years ago

CFI.co Meets Nuno Amado

A Determined Leader for Challenging Times. In February 2012, Nuno Amado was elected Chief Executive Officer of Portugal’s largest private…

11 years ago

What Really Spurred the Great Recession?

Based on the research of Ravi Jagannathan, Mudit Kapoor and Ernst Schaumburg Globalization and the U.S. dollar are as much…

11 years ago

Islamic Banking: London’s City Finds New Calling

In a bid to attract a new category of investors and to become a leading centre of Islamic finance, the…

11 years ago

Looking for an Easy Fix: The Great Banking Crisis Five Years Later

Greed, malfeasance, incompetence and a lack of both regulation and oversight brought the world perilously close to a financial Armageddon…

11 years ago

The Equator Principles: Banking on Sustainability

Financial institutions worldwide are increasingly benchmarking their larger investment projects to the Equator Principles of social and environmental risk assessment.…

11 years ago

Africapitalism: A Way to Unleash Africa’s Potential

Doing well in business whilst doing good for Africa. That is the challenge set by Nigerian banker-turned-philanthropist Tony Elumelu who…

11 years ago

Complimentary Currencies: Development Tool on Trial in Kenya

The Central Bank of Kenya has asked the public prosecutor to charge American economist and former Peace Corps volunteer Will…

11 years ago