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Ivan Loktev, a director of CEEMEA debt capital markets at HSBC, has left the bank. Loktev had been at HSBC for nearly 10 years. He was covering the former CIS countries.
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Qatar has raised the upper limit for foreign investors in the country's stocks, making it the latest state in the Gulf to try and encourage international investment. -
Pakistan will need stronger underwriting standards to address the risks stemming from sharp growth in its Islamic banking industry, according to Moody’s. The country’s Islamic banks boast higher quality assets than their conventional peers, but stricter regulation is needed if this is to remain the case.
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Islamic finance specialists welcomed a joint initiative from Bahraini Islamic bank Al Baraka and the World Bank to research the risk-management challenges facing Islamic banks. Islamic institutions such as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Islamic Development Bank have not done enough to promote research into risk management in Islamic finance, and the new initiative was a firm step in the right direction, said one.
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CIMB Islamic Bank has donated MR1m ($312,592) to Mercy Malaysia, a non-governmental organisation that is providing humanitarian relief to Gaza.
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Cantor Fitzgerald is looking to acquire residential mortgage origination firms as it moves to “aggressively” expand its capabilities in that market, its CEO, Shawn Matthews, told GlobalCapital. The firm is also looking to move into the CLO market.
