African Finance Evolution: It May Not Be Televised Yet, but the World Is Certainly Taking Note

Burkina Faso-based Fidelis Finance specialises in meeting leasing, credit, factoring, surety and payment guarantee needs — especially those of West African SMEs. The company’s knowhow has earned it national and international recognition, raised living standards and created jobs in the

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Kathrein Privatbank: A Past Rich in Tradition. A Future Filled with Promise.

Kathrein Privatbank AG, with its headquarters in Vienna’s first district, was founded by Carl Kathrein in 1924 and is one of the leading private banks in the German-speaking region. Its core competence is the management of personal, corporate and institutional

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AIB: A New Name on the High Streets of Northern Ireland

Following a significant strategic investment, extensive research and an engagement programme, First Trust Bank in Northern Ireland has officially changed its title to AIB. Reflecting the name of the parent company, the AIB Group, the programme marks “a continuation of

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The Access Bank UK Limited: It’s All About Service for Nigerian Bank Making Impact on the World

Fundamental to the growth of the The Access Bank UK is an operational culture built on strong customer relationships and the delivery of quality services. The Access Bank UK Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Access Bank Plc, a

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Tobias Prestel and Katja Muelheim: Bringing Together Family Offices to Make the World a Better Place

Family Business owners and Family Offices have significant wealth. How can this be used to make our world a better place? CFI.co meets Tobias Prestel and Katja Muelheim, the two founding partners of Prestel who, over the past ten years,

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Smart City Prince: A Prince with a Mission, a Vision

For anyone familiar with the dashing Crown Prince of Dubai, it would have come as no surprise to find him on stage, in front of an international audience, delivering his vision of the future… as a hologram. Like an Arabic

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Vice-Prime Minister Kocho Angjushev: Pulling Macedonia Out of a Limbo and Into the European Union

What’s in a name? In the case of Macedonia, an entire country’s future. Macedonia, a candidate for accession to the European Union since 2005 and equally anxious to join NATO, has been unable to start accession processes over a dispute

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Partners Who Put Their Faith in Egypt’s Burgeoning Economy

Aly El Ghannam and Marwan El Khedry – “The Partnership”, as they choose to be called – established Ostoul Capital Group in Egypt in 2015. With more than a quarter of a century of experience between them in the capital

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From Little Things, Big Things Grow: Ostoul’s Acorn Becoming an Oak

At a time when the risk of setting up a fully fledged investment institution that offers an incomparable range of services was exceptionally high, Ostoul Capital Group still took on the challenge and over a mere span of three years,

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Deloitte: Construction Hitches in the GCC Lead to Calls for Positive Change

Construction plays an important role in GCC countries’ long-term economic development plans and national visions, driving the involvement of the public sector towards delivering successful cities. Whilst external factors – such as the tightening infrastructure expenditure and reduced volume of

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