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Bahrain Bourse hosts Investors Relations programme

Participants of the training workshop with organizers at the Bahrain Bourse premises

Bahrain Bourse in cooperation with JP Morgan held a three-part training course on Investor Relations (IR) targeting representatives from several listed companies attended the course. This course was organized in line with the bourse’s responsibility towards supporting the efforts of [...]

July 9th, 2011 | Posted in Bahrain Bourse | Read More »

KHCB enters into an agreement with Invita

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Bahrain-based Islamic retail major Khaleeji Commercial Bank (KHCB), signed an agreement with Invita, a leading multimedia contact center and outsourcing service provider, to handle KHCB’s call center services. The agreement is a major step in KHCB’s continuous effort to provide [...]

July 7th, 2011 | Posted in Banking & Finance | Read More »

Over $1trillion Islamic finance industry faces challenges

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With a sustained growth of 15% annually and total assets of Islamic finance industry rising to $1 trillion, the Islamic Financial Institutions, regulators, shariah experts and other market players face a daunting challenge of standardization. Ijlal Ahmed Alvi, Chief Executive [...]

July 6th, 2011 | Posted in Banking & Finance,Headline | Read More »

Bahrain’s investment firms’ AUM rises to $10.3b in Q1

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With assets under management (AUM) rising to $10.3 billion at end of first quarter of 2011, the Investment Business Firms sector in Bahrain has shown a robust growth in Q1 compared with the same period last year, according to the [...]

July 6th, 2011 | Posted in Banking & Finance,Headline | Read More »

Murabaha transactions take center stage at workshop

CBB officials during the workshop

The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) and the Bahrain Financial Exchange (BFX) hosted a workshop at the CBB premises in the Diplomatic Area in which all Islamic bank licensees were invited to attend this workshop. The workshop focused on e-Tayseer [...]

July 4th, 2011 | Posted in Banking & Finance | Read More »

‘Bahrain remains an important financial centre in the GCC’

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Standard & Poor’s on Monday its latest report said that Bahrain would remain an important financial center in the GCC despite some challenges being faced from the peer Gulf States Dubai and Qatar. Answering a question how Bahrain can regain [...]

July 4th, 2011 | Posted in Banking & Finance,Headline | Read More »

BBK-Markaz Fund-I produces robust performance

BBK CEO A.Karim Bucheery

BBK, Bahrain’s pioneer in retail and commercial banking, has declared the robust liquidation performance of ‘BBK – Markaz-I US Industrial Realty Fund’. BBK- Markaz-I was one of a real estate investment project established in 2002 by BBK and Kuwait Financial [...]

July 4th, 2011 | Posted in Banking & Finance | Read More »

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