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US air strike kills commander of Iran-backed militia in Baghdad
...Saidi was the deputy head of operations in Baghdad of the Popular Mobilisation Units, a network of Iran-backed Shia militia groups....
January 4, 2024
Iraq
US air strike kills commander of Iran-backed militia in Baghdad
...Saidi was the deputy head of operations in Baghdad of the Popular Mobilisation Units, a network of Iran-backed Shia militia groups....
January 4, 2024
FT Live
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Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Lebanon
Lebanon devalues official exchange rate by 90%
...Saidi said that the new L£15,000 rate was “75 per cent below the effective market rate of L£60,000 as well as below the so-called Sayrafa rate of L£38,000”, the latter referring to the central bank’s exchange...
February 1, 2023
News in-depthWorld
Lebanon faces exodus of its most educated citizens
...Nasser Saidi, a Lebanese economist and former minister, also warned of the dangers of the depletion of Lebanon’s “stock of human capital”....
March 7, 2022
David Gardner
Shifting geopolitics offer glimmer of hope for Lebanon’s new government
...Leading economist and former Lebanese economy minister Nasser Saidi says real GDP has declined by a cumulative 45 per cent since 2018 and 77 per cent of Lebanon’s population is below the poverty line, amid...
September 15, 2021
Middle Eastern companies
Trade emerges as latest flashpoint in deepening Saudi-UAE rivalry
...“This is a moment of opportunity to rewrite the rules and come up with a new customs union agreement and look forward to the future,” said Nasser Saidi, a Dubai-based economist....
July 14, 2021
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
News in-depthFT Alphaville
How public assets can help revive Lebanon
...The economic value of public real estate can be worth at least as much as GDP and often several times the value of the operational part of any portfolio....
June 30, 2020
Lebanon
Currency collapse fuels mass protests in Lebanon
...Mr Saidi, the former central banker, said the volatile price swings were driven by four main factors: uncertainty among currency traders about government policy; the printing of currency to cover a fiscal...
June 12, 2020
Lebanon
Lebanon’s central banker pledges to end stand-off over IMF talks
...Nasser Saidi, a former BdL vice-governor and fierce critic of Mr Salame, said without “transparency and disclosure” from the BdL, “negotiations with the IMF will simply be sabotaged”....
September 13, 2020
Lebanon
Lebanon set to default for first time as foreign currency reserves dive
...“It is now urgent that the government opens up negotiations with the IMF,” Mr Saidi said, “because you’re going to need help with balance of payments, even to fund your imports”....
March 8, 2020
ReviewAlbums
Transglobal Underground: Walls Have Ears — as glorious as ever
...Modern Maghrebi music gets an outing on the crunchy Gnawa chant of “Stand Up (Nifhamou)”, with Atlas singing with rai pretender Sofiane Saidi, and again on “Chant Sans Adresse”, with Nawel Ben Kraïem taking...
May 8, 2020
Sovereign bonds
Lebanon’s creditors adopt crash position as default risk worsens
...Nasser Saidi, a former BdL vice-governor and former economy and trade minister, said different approaches were needed to ease the debt servicing burden of Lebanon’s foreign currency and local currency debts...
November 15, 2019
News in-depthThe Big Read
Lebanon: a nation brought to its knees
...“A corrupt political class, subservient policymakers and cronies have generated an unprecedented misery, an economic, banking, and financial meltdown,” says Nasser Saidi, a former economy minister and vice-governor...
August 7, 2020
Special ReportConsulting in Emerging Markets
NMC scandal proves a boon for global advisers
...To bolster local ability to handle such crises, Nasser Saidi, a governance consultant, says the financial regulator’s powers could be expanded into a supervisory body to screen regional companies seeking...
April 17, 2020
News in-depthThe Big Read
End of the party: why Lebanon’s debt crisis has left it vulnerable
...says Mr Saidi. But as banks paid out dividends to shareholders, many of whom were politicians, Lebanon’s political elites were happy to go along with it....
December 31, 2019
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
Lebanon
Lebanon urged to restructure debt as crisis deepens
...Nasser Saidi, a former central bank vice governor, said he expected the central bank would be able to provide the foreign currency needed to cover Thursday’s repayment, pointing out that not all the funds...
November 28, 2019
Africa holidays
On a tiny African island, a $100m experiment in sustainable tourism
...“There’s been a big increase in cars,” Saidi said disapprovingly....
June 14, 2019
ReviewLife & Arts
Ammar 808: Maghreb United — ‘insistent, relentless, entranced’
...Accompanying him on a set of traditional songs that span Gnawa and Rai, plus Bargou 08’s Targ, are three different singers: Mehdi Nassouli from Morocco, Sofiane Saidi from Algeria and Cheb Hassen Tej from...
June 8, 2018
Political risk and investment
Saudi investors check out after hotel turned into luxury prison
...Still, Nasser Saidi, a consultant and former Lebanese economy minister, believes the knock to confidence will be balanced in time by a better investment climate....
November 17, 2017
World
Iraq declares battle for Fallujah is ‘over’
...Lieutenant-general Abdul Wahab al-Saidi said the struggle to clear that area, which for more than a decade has been a militant stronghold, was completed over the weekend....
June 26, 2016
Fintech
Tanzania’s fintech and mobile money transform business practice
...Ramadhani Saidi Gereza is a barometer for the way mobile phone technology is changing Tanzania. The engine oil seller in Dar es Salaam’s Kariakoo market says mobile money has transformed his business....
July 12, 2016
Special ReportDoing Business in Austria
Austria’s teaching system under intense pressure to achieve
...Second, Ms Saidi, who was born in Vienna but is of Iranian descent, speaks German fluently....
October 20, 2015
Free LunchMartin Sandbu
Free Lunch: A convoy moves at the pace of its slowest members Premium content
...Nasser Saidi summarises all the reasons Opec has a dim future. Numbers news The Institute for Fiscal Studies has published the definitive guide to the EU budget....
April 7, 2016
Fund management
Investors must grapple with Middle East’s worsening volatility
...Nasser Saidi, a leading economist formerly at the Dubai International Financial Centre, conservatively estimates Iran’s unmet investment needs at $850bn over the next five years....
September 29, 2015
Middle Eastern finance
Saudi Arabia opens its $560bn stock market to foreign investors
...“Part of the problem is that there are some very large investors who can play markets and benefit from inside information,” said Nasser Saidi, an economist and corporate governance expert....
June 14, 2015

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