Financial centres contend for prominence

Saudi economic city passes the IPO test

Saudi economic city passes the IPO test

The anatomy of King Abdullah Economic City

With hundreds of billions of dollars of project finance expected to be raised in the Gulf over the next decade, the world’s largest investment banks are once again establishing offices in the Middle East.

Arab governments are vying with each other to provide the quality of regulation and the infrastructure that will attract the lion’s share of these banks’ activity and enable them to claim the title of the region’s financial capital.

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