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Raising longer-term bond and debt issues in often-turbulent sub-Saharan markets is an irregular activity, given the lack of big economies with banks and money market investors resilient enough to leverage [...]

Nigeria's economy might have been hit by the ongoing adjustment to lower oil revenues, tumbling share prices and the naira's falling exchange rate, but among Lagos bankers and other industry [...]

Though Angola continues to draw huge investment into its deep offshore oil search, its newer onshore territories, plans to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) and other post-civil war opportunities are [...]

The extraordinary growth of the gas industry, and with it Doha's transformation into a vibrant, mushrooming city whose rapid development entails a dizzying number of industrial and infrastructural mega-projects, has [...]

Nothing concentrates the mind like competition, except perhaps for a dramatic change of circumstance. Both trends are apparent in the long, largely dormant, sub-Saharan African project finance market. Here, the [...]

The world's largest independent power and water project (IWPP) reached its financial close on June 21. Unusually, it was not the Gulf's project finance hotspot, Qatar, that sewed up the [...]

The creation of a $200m Africa-focused private equity fund by Citi and UK government-owned investor CDC was widely taken as a sign of improving times for sub-Saharan economies. Bulge bracket [...]

If bankers needed reminding of the importance of Iran's role in the oil and gas sector, November's signing of a huge liquefied natural gas (LNG) deal between Beijing and Tehran [...]

Three main players are emerging in the battle to capture the e-based financial transactions market. The Internet changes the technical platform on which business can be transacted and provides an [...]

Kuwait's attempts at reform are progressing, but blink and you would miss them, Say Jon Marks and Kevin Godier With its public policy disputes and oil-fuelled taste for investment, Kuwait [...]

Saudi banks emerged from the last oil price slump leaner and fitter. But now that prices have shot up, can they remain healthy and competitive? Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest [...]

With some $2bn of debt financing lining up for three projects in the liquefied natural gas (LNG), shipping and telecommunications sectors, foreign investors and financiers seem increasingly prepared to fund [...]

The banking industry in Qatar is in a buoyant mood as GDP growth is surging and profits from oil and gas are increasing. The country's 14 banks are enjoying the benefits of the liberalization of interest rates and the impressive GDP growth rate, which is projected to be the world's highest in 1997. The increased business activity brought by hydrocarbon projects has also been a boon to banks, with the volume of their credit facilities to private and state businesses growing by 11.7% in 1996. There is likewise a strong demand for personal banking facilities., Qatar's domestic banking industry is feeling upbeat, thanks to the country's soaring GDP growth and good profits from oil and gas. Kevin Godier reports from Doha The sheer size of [...]

A strong banking industry emerged in Jordan after the Gulf War with the return of expatriates and the emergence of new US and European depositors. Returning expatriates infused the banking system with cash while high interest rates attracted new accounts from US and European citizens. Western support of Jordan's peace pact with Israel resulted in overbanking, prompting the central bank to promote mergers to strengthen banks., Since the Gulf War, expatriates have returned with cash and a new generation of depositors has emerged. Meanwhile, the banks have shifted gear and have begun a new round of [...]