Kuwait Banking Interviews - MarcoPolis Your local business media with a global reach Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 Burgan Bank’s Strategy: “Regional Growth & Strong Balance Sheet” /burgan-banks-strategy-qregional-growth-a-strong-balance-sheetq.htm Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 /burgan-banks-strategy-qregional-growth-a-strong-balance-sheetq.htm Interview with Eduardo Eguren, Chief Executive Officer of Burgan Bank. Burgan Bank is optimistic about the outlook for the banking sector in Kuwait in 2012; there will be growth in the sector but only a moderate. Kuwaiti banks have been affected by the crisis and they are slowly getting back on the old tracks. An example of this could be Burgan Bank which reduced its cost of credit by 72% last year.

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]]> Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait /al-ahli-bank-of-kuwait.htm Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:32:01 +0000 /al-ahli-bank-of-kuwait.htm Interview with Abdullah Al Sumait, Deputy CEO of Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK). Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait is considered to be rather a conservative bank. With other two branches in the UAE, Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait is financing many projects of Kuwaiti and also Emirati companies. Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait will be opening new retail branches during 2012.

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]]> Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait | Exclusive Interview /al-ahli-bank-of-kuwait-exclusive-interview.htm Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:17:01 +0000 /al-ahli-bank-of-kuwait-exclusive-interview.htm Interview with Abdullah Al Sumait, Deputy CEO of Al Ahli Bank. In Kuwait most of the banks have made aggressive moves the past three to five years whereas other banks (non Kuwait) have been more cautious towards growth. Eventually big banks all around the world have been hit and Kuwait is not any different.  When this happened at the end of 2008 Kuwait government took good steps to protect banks and the financial sector and the central bank enacted some regulations to assure the banks in Kuwait, it would provide the needed liquidity.

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]]> Gulf Bank Kuwait New Strategy /gulf-bank-kuwait-new-strategy.htm Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 /gulf-bank-kuwait-new-strategy.htm Interview with Mr. Michel Accad, CEO of Gulf Bank
In December, Gulf Bank Kuwait had a meeting with the top fifty leaders at Gulf Bank and we decided on Gulf Bank’s strategic direction. Gulf Bank's vision was to be a dominant player in the local, conventional banking market, focusing on retail and commercial banking.  At this stage, Gulf Bank is not particularly interested in Islamic finance, or direct investments, or brokerage.  The key thing that came up from that meeting was that for the next two years Gulf Bank will be in rebuilding mode and our strategy will revolve around four pillars.

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