banks

People walk past a branch of the commercial bank of Syria
Syria
MENA
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Syria gives banks six months to absorb Lebanon crisis losses

The directive issued on 22 September requires banks to recognise 100 percent of their exposure to Lebanon's financial system

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
21 October, 2025
People are seen at the bank office and Automated teller machine (ATM) after fall of the Baath regime and the Assad family's rule in Damascus, Syria on December 23, 2024. (Photo by Emin Sansar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Post-Assad Syria
Economy
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Syria banks wait to enter global market after SWIFT codes given

The New Arab Staff
18 May, 2025
Palestinians withdraw money from ATM's at a bank in the northern Palestinian city of Nablus, in the Israeli occupied West Bank on June 9, 2024. (Photo by ZAIN JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images)
Bezalel Smotrich
Economy
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Israel extends Palestinian banks' lifeline for one year

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 November, 2024
Yemenia
Yemen
MENA
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Houthis, Yemeni government reach financial 'de-escalation' deal

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
23 July, 2024
Gaza War
MENA
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Saudi Arabia takes orders for new Aramco share sale

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 June, 2024
Lebanon
MENA
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Several bank raids across Lebanon as people demand deposits

The New Arab Staff
16 September, 2022
Lebanon
MENA
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Lebanon banks to sell US dollars at approved rate next week

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
25 March, 2022
Lebanon
MENA
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Lebanon judge issues travel ban for Creditbank chairman

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
17 March, 2022
A counting machine counting 50,000 Lebanese pound banknotes
Lebanon
MENA
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Lebanese prosecutor bans five bank board chiefs from travel

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 March, 2022
International Investment Bank
Russia
Economy
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EU's eastern countries to leave Soviet-era banks after Russian invasion

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 March, 2022
COP26
Perspectives

COP26's 'greenwashers' are polluting the climate narrative

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Anthony Harwood

05 November, 2021
Lebanese pound [GETTY]
Lebanon
MENA
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Lebanon crisis robs pensioners of cash cushions

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 March, 2021
Abu Dhabi getty
UAE
MENA
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Top UAE banks' profits drop amid pandemic

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
27 January, 2021
assad
Syria
MENA
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Assad blames Lebanese banking controls for Syria’s economic crisis

The New Arab Staff
05 November, 2020
iran bank
US
MENA
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Trump sanctions Iran banks, seeking crippling blow

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
09 October, 2020
Somalia [Getty]
Somalia
MENA
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Somali money transfer companies 'facilitate arms dealer transactions': report

The New Arab Staff
18 September, 2020
Lebanon banks -- AFP
smuggling
MENA
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Lebanon 'must probe' $6 billion of foreign bank transfers

The New Arab Staff
13 July, 2020
lebanon money
lira
MENA
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Lebanon currency in free-fall amid political impasse

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
24 June, 2020
lebanon banks protests
protests
MENA
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Lebanese government holds emergency meeting after raging protests

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
12 June, 2020
Lebanon protester coronavirus - AFP
protest
Voices

Corruption, not coronavirus, is ravaging Lebanon

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Carmen Geha

30 April, 2020
lebanon, banking
Lebanon
MENA
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Lebanon banks halt dollar withdrawals after coronavirus closes airport

The New Arab & agencies
30 March, 2020