Doha, Qatar--Governor of Qatar Central Bank Sheikh Bandar bin Mohammed bin Saoud Al-Thani has called for strengthening joint action among the Arab Gulf states, especially in light of the economic and financial challenges that the world is experiencing in relation with growth, sustainable development, financial stability, and interest rate policies,...

TUNIS, TUNISIA -  President Kais Saied on Thursday appointed a new governor of the central bank of Tunisia, a north African country in the throes of economic hardship. Saied named Fethi Zouhair Nouri, a 69-year-old member of the central bank's board, to succeed Marouane Abassi, 64, whose six-year mandate ends on...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - The Anti-Money Laundering Permanent Committee (AMLPC) hosted a coordination meeting with relevant Saudi permanent committees on Thursday to discuss enhancing systems of countering money laundering, finance of terrorism, and proliferation. The meeting was chaired by Ayman Al-Sayari, governor of the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) and AMLPC...

Libya's central bank announced that its two rival branches in the west and east are reuniting after nearly a decade apart. The North African country is currently split between Abdelhamid Dbeibah's UN-backed government in the west and another in the east backed by military strongman Khalifa Haftar.

Seen as a key culprit in the country's dramatic economic crash, former governor Riad Salameh's bank accounts were ordered to be frozen by Lebanon days after the the US, the UK and Canada slapped him with sanctions. The central bank has ordered the lifting of banking secrecy and the freezing...

A former assistant of Riad Salameh, the governor of Lebanon's central bank, has been charged with money laundering by France. Last year, France, Germany and Luxembourg seized assets worth $130mn in a move linked to a probe into Salameh's wealth. He is accused of having amassed a fortune during his...

Lebanon has received an Interpol red notice requesting the arrest of central bank governor Riad Salameh after a French magistrate issued a warrant this week, a judicial official said. Salameh, 72, has been the target of a series of judicial investigations both at home and abroad on allegations including fraud,...

Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh maintained his innocence following a second day of questioning before European investigators in Beirut as part of a probe into his personal wealth. Salameh, 72, is part of the Lebanese political elite widely blamed for a crushing economic crisis that began in late 2019.

Iraq's prime minister said the country's central bank governor had been relieved of his duties as the local currency continues to fall against the dollar. "The central bank governor's request for discharge was approved, as was the request for retirement by the president of the Trade Bank of Iraq," Prime...

A team of investigators from Europe will visit Lebanon next month to probe into the wealth of central bank governor Riad Salameh blamed widely for the country's unprecedented crisis. The long-serving chief is among top officials held responsible for the crisis dubbed as one of the worst in modern global...

Istanbul, Turkey— A senior Greek official was detained in Turkey at the weekend because of what the Ankara government described as a technical error, Turkish media reported on Tuesday. Athens issued a formal complaint on Saturday after Apostolos Tzitzikostas, the governor of the Greek province of Central Macedonia, was detained for...

With US inflation soaring new heights, the country's central bank has said more increases are likely to come this year in order to cool the world's largest economy and rein in high prices. Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said 'inflation remains stubbornly and unacceptably high.'

The delegation, led by Governor Spencer J. Cox, included over sixty prominent Utah government officials, business executives, and community leaders, including First Lady Abby Cox.

The Governor of the Central Bank, Mustafa Ghalib, received the US Ambassador to Iraq, Alina Romanowski, and her accompanying delegation.

Governor of the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) Adel Sharkas said that terror financing is a threat to national economies, adding the Kingdom is committed to combating the menace.

India's central bank on Wednesday hiked rates for a second time in as many months, as Asia's third-largest economy reels from galloping inflation in the wake of the Ukraine war.

The UAE wants to boost cooperation with Egypt and Jordan in the financial sector in order to achieve sustainable growth in the region, according to Khaled Mohamed Balama, the Governor of the CBUAE.

Some 80 percent of Yemen's population of about 30 million people depends on aid for survival, after years of a conflict that has killed almost 380,000 people, directly or indirectly, according to the UN.

A Lebanese judge on Thursday arrested the brother of Central Bank governor Riad Salameh, both of whom are suspected of embezzlement and money laundering, judicial sources said. Judge Ghada Aoun arrested Raja Salameh "after questioning him for three hours", a court official told AFP on condition of anonymity. Riad Salameh...

The meeting was attended by the Minister of Communications and Information Technology Abdullah Al-Sawaha, as well as the heads of universities in the region.

The meeting was held on the sidelines of the official visit of Turkish President to the UAE.

Iraq is keen to benefit from the Egyptian Investment Authority, the Governor of Iraq’s Central Bank Mustafa Ghaleb said on Friday.

A Lebanese judicial delegation will meet French authorities in Paris next week to discuss investigations into Lebanon's central bank governor Riad Salameh, a judicial source said on Thursday. Salameh is among the top Lebanese officials widely blamed for the country's unprecedented financial crisis that the World Bank says is of...

Louai al-Yasseri resigned from his leadership in Najaf, in central Iraq, a day after the governor of Nasiriyah province in the south quit following the violent suppression of protesters

The new methodology also introduces measurement of these exposures, based on credit risk-weighted assets using the CBUAE’s capital adequacy standards.

Several amendments to the Commercial Transactions Law related to cheques will contribute to raising the UAE's ranking in the Global Competitiveness Index, the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) said on Monday. These amendments, which will come into effect on 2 Jan. 2022, are related to the decriminalization of cheques,...