Publication: Al Arab

November 2014

Hanadi Nasser Bin Khaled: medium-sized companies have supported the national economy

Doha - Arab Sheikha Hanadi Nasser Bin Khaled Al Thani, Founder and President of the Board of Directors funds company, that the Qatari government provided great opportunities for small and medium companies to play an active role in supporting the national economy. She said Al-Thani, in her speech during a meeting of Euromoney Qatar Conference Yesterday: The state owns an asset up to $ 1.3 trillion, can provide a large area for small businesses and the private sector to develop its business and contribute effectively in supporting the national economy and development of the country. She added that the organization «achievement», non-governmental and a subsidiary of funds managed to attract 12 A student, and she hired a large number of them as volunteers in the field of small businesses. She noted that His Excellency Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank confirmed in more than one occasion that there are many and varied opportunities were made available and will be made available for small and medium-sized enterprises in particular to take advantage of them and contribute to them in payment of the Qatari economy forward. She said: «This is important for us, as it requires us to have the necessary skills so that we are one of the pioneers, and we are all working to achieve the goals set out in the Qatar National Vision 2030, which identified the need for economic diversification and expansion away from oil and industry. confirmed Sheikha Hanadi Nasser Al Thani, that the development of small enterprises can not be done only through a knowledge-based economy, as it can not be a success for the economy without the small and medium-sized companies, pointing out that in order to stimulate these companies have provided state funding and has many initiatives, such as subsidies financial and administrative services, and so on. She stressed Al-Thani on the need to create a culture of small companies and enter into a partnership with them in order to complement the roles and lead to achieve the desired achievement. and on the challenges facing small and medium-sized companies, confirmed the founder and president of the Board of Directors of «money», that some business owners find difficulty in integrating their business, but in the future there will be a balanced opportunities, as well as viable opportunities that will be created to attract Qataris and Qatari, and this requires education and training. And the challenges facing women in this area, Sheikha Hanadi pointed out that there are challenges already facing women around the world as a whole, while in the region coincides challenges with some customs and traditions and religious values. She added: «We emphasize the importance of partnership between men and women, I would also like to point out that there are a large number of Qatari women have held senior positions in the state and there are many examples of this», stressing that efforts are being made to find solutions to these challenges. The Sheikha Hanadi Nasser Al Thani, Founder and President of the Board of Directors of «money», has made it clear that winning funds company the award for Best Asset Management Company in Qatar for the fourth consecutive year by the «Amy Finance», came in recognition of its track record and excellent in investment performance. She explained that «money» independent of the assets of the company founded in 1999 with the approval of Qatar Central Bank, and has made many achievements through the march stretched for about 16 years, adding: «We aspire to be a leading company in the region and the world and I am very proud of what we have achieved to accomplish. »

Publication: Al Sharq

Abdullah bin Mohammed: Qatar qualified to play a leading role in the financial sector

Habu Beqaj and Tom Awad

His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Saud Al Thani, Chairman of the Board Ooredoo management, said: "Qatar, in light of its strong investment in telecommunications and innovations mobile networks, qualified to play a leading role in changing the financial sector and the entire society. It seeks Ooredoo because make our state a business center creativity and innovation, and we're actually enable companies in Qatar to achieve its objectives through the provision of the fourth generation 4G communications and fiber-optic services companies and services."

Hanadi Nasser girl: Qatar provided great opportunities for small and medium companies to activate their role in the economy

He spoke His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Saud Al-Thani in Euromoney Qatar Conference 2014, on Monday, for Qatar investment strategy and sustainable infrastructure for communications networks, and explained that the investment Qatar in communications infrastructure, which covers all areas of Qatar, which topped its Ooredoo, considered A vital economic asset.

For her part, Sheikha Hanadi girl Nasser bin Khaled Al Thani Foundation and President of the Governing Council of the funds the company: The Qatari government provided great opportunities for small and medium companies to play an active role in supporting the national economy, pointing out that the state allows ample space for small businesses and the private sector to develop its business and to contribute actively in supporting the national economy and development of the country.

She said in one of the sessions in response to questions addressed to her from the podium about the successful experience that His Excellency the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank of Qatar confirmed on more than one occasion that there are many and varied opportunities made available and will be made available and for the companies and small and medium-sized, in particular, to take advantage of them and contribute in pushing the economy Qatar before.

And on the challenges facing small and medium-sized companies, Sheikha Hanadi confirmed that some business owners find it difficult to integrate their business but in the future there will be a balanced opportunities, as well as viable opportunities that will be put in place to attract Qataris and Qatari, and this requires education and training.

Kuwari: 15% adequacy top regional and global capital "QNB" ratio

And on the challenges facing women .. saw Sheikha Hanadi that there are challenges already facing women in the world as a whole, while in the region coincides challenges with some customs and traditions and religious values, but we emphasize the importance of partnership between men and women, pointing out that there are a large number of Qatari women have held senior positions in the state and there are examples, and concluded that there are efforts being made to find solutions to the challenges.

The Sheikha Hanadi have shown that the money the company win the award for Best Asset Management Company in Qatar for the fourth year in a row by "Amy Finance" came in recognition of the excellent track record in investment performance.

On the other hand, Mr. Ali Al Kuwari, CEO of Qatar National Bank "QNB" Acting stressed that the bank's capital adequacy ratio stood at 15%, one of the high rates at the regional and global level. After the bank began in the application of the requirements of Qatar Central Bank and the Basel Committee on 3 calculates the capital adequacy ratio as of the first quarter of 2014.

He spoke Kuwari 3 trends in the Bank's future strategy to become a leading financial institution in the Middle East and Africa, where are these trends to continue foreign expansion in selected markets while continuing conservative policy of the Bank in its management and through the acquisition of distinct financial institutions and perhaps the Group completed its acquisition of 23.5% ratio (ordinary and preference shares) in Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, one of the largest and most important banks in the continent of Africa are concentrated in sub-Saharan West Africa, and the number of its branches more than 2,000 branch and over 20 thousand employees. This bank has achieved a net profit exceeded $ 480 million during the first nine months this year .

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He explained that the second trend in the group's strategy to expand its business on the development and introduction of distinct banking services to the bank's customers by achieving the optimum exploitation of the opportunities inherent growth in the extended group's network in more than 26 countries on three continents around the world, and offer their customers the latest banking services through more than 610 branches and representative offices, in addition to the ATM network with over 1,300 device, and employs more than 14,000 employees.

The third trend revolves around the continuing support of the local market through products and services leading to consolidate the strong position of the bank in the market and support Qatar Vision 2030 by supporting private sector growth and to focus more on small and medium enterprise sector.

For his part, Mr. Abdullah main executive vice president of Commercial Bank said that the banking sector has proved its ability unusual to smoothly adapt to the global economic crisis and was able to stand Nada and bulwark, but was able to overcome the conditions suffered by the major international banks has contributed consistently to the overall growth process .. He said that Qatar's economy was able to continue to grow by 6.3% this year despite the modest contribution of the energy sector in general, a reference to the growing contribution of services and hydrocarbon sectors which grew by 11.5%.

The main conference said in his speech that the banking sector waiting for several projects in infrastructure financing opportunities which is made available to all banks for effective raced in and contribute to the development of Qatar, stressing that the Qatari banks enjoy considerable liquidity ably positioned to finance these huge projects.

And unlike a number of experts and international point of view in these topics, the expert from the Investment FGB occur, and occur as well as Sarkis Yegortadjian Assistant Director in banking supervision management and organization in the US Federal Reserve System, which in particular pointed out that the financial crisis of 2008 was a result of failure global governance system, also pointed to a number of structural challenges still facing the global economy.

Publication: The Peninsula

Asset Management business still young in Qatar: Sheikha Hanadi

DOHA: Qatar’s Asset Management sector is still young and relatively untapped. There is full-scope for greater expansion of this sector, Sheikha Hanadi Nasser bin Khaled Al Thani, Founder and Chairperson, Amwal, said.

There is huge potential for growth in the region’s asset management sector. It is estimated that $1.5 to $3 trillion of wealth pool is available in the region, excluding the sovereign wealth fund (SWF). This is huge money. There is enough room for greater expansion of the sector, she said in an interview at the opening day of Euromoney Conference yesterday.

On the country’s economic diversification programme and the positioning of financial sector in this context, Sheikha Hanadi said the financial sector is key in the development of non-hydrocarbon sector. There is no doubt that hydrocarbon is the backbone of our country’s economy. But non-oil sector is fast emerging as major contributor to the national GDP.

Sheikha Hanadi noted: Despite making big successes, the SME stories are going unheard in the region. SMEs are the biggest providers of employment I within the region. SMEs accounts for more than 87 percent of businesses in the region. There are huge success stories in this sector. But we don’t hear it.

In Qatar, she said, there are multiple institutions that are committed to promote small businesses. There is lot of initiatives for financing as well as creating capitals. Still we need a lot of ‘bubbly’ initiatives in this sector.

On the challenges of Qatarisation, she said:

“Well, the future of Qatar lies on Qatari people. We are a small population and we have large opportunities to offer. Qatari entities are trying to create a right talent pool of nationals. But I think we need to strike a right balance between local and foreign talents to move forward. Young Qataris must look for opportunities both in Government and private sectors, she said.

Amwal that won “best asset manager in Qatar” award for the fourth consecutive year, is one of the best-positioned asset managers in the expanding sector, with full-scope asset management capabilities.

A leading asset management firm with a successful track record in managing equities, Amwal offers non-banking financial advice to Qatari investors and helps them realise their wealth management and asset management aspirations.

The Peninsula