Hawkamah

Building Middle East Markets and the Corporate Governance Imperatives

Hawkamah's annual gathering is all the more important this year as corporate governance frameworks are being shaped and re-shaped as part of the global lessons learned from the financial crisis. Over the past few years some of the region's regulators have been putting in place corporate governance frameworks based on regional business realities. The region needs to have a spirited and forward-looking discussion on how we can over-shoot on corporate governance to build investor confidence, deepen our markets, modernize our corporate sector, and, most of all preserve our wealth. This year's theme, Emerging Middle East Markets and the Corporate Governance Imperative, will explore positive developments and challenges on corporate governance in the region.

Hawkamah's work over the past few years-with our task forces on banks, state-owned enterprises, private equity, insurance, insolvency and creditor rights, and Islamic financial institutions-are designed to jump-start these forward-looking discussions. We are making an extra effort this year, our fourth year, to engage practitioners, regulators and experts to identify those pressing regional issues that will advance corporate governance implementation in the region.

Reports

Policy Brief on Improving Corporate Governance of Banks in the Middle East and North Africa Region( 430 KB)

Study on Insolvency Systems in the Middle East and North Africa( 1.06 MB)

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