by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Banking & Finance, Qatar Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRThe Qatar Stock Exchange lists around fifty companies and is dominated by a handful of very large names, with banking and energy-linked industrials accounting for most of the market capitalisation. Its 2014 upgrade to emerging market status brought...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Banking & Finance, Qatar Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRThe Qatar Financial Centre is an onshore jurisdiction with its own commercial law based on English common law, its own courts, its own regulator, full foreign ownership and a low corporate tax rate. Unlike a free zone it is not confined to a physical...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Banking & Finance, Qatar Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRQatar Islamic Bank is the country’s largest Sharia-compliant institution and a beneficiary of one of the most consequential regulatory decisions in Gulf banking: the 2011 requirement that conventional banks close their Islamic windows. That ruling...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Banking & Finance, Qatar Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRQNB is the largest bank in the Middle East and Africa by assets, built from a domestic monopoly position in a wealthy small state and then expanded through acquisitions in Egypt, Turkey and across Africa. Roughly half-owned by the sovereign wealth fund,...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Aviation & Logistics, Qatar Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRQatar Airways, Emirates and Turkish Airlines all run connecting hubs, but they are three different businesses. Emirates is an all-widebody scale machine. Turkish is a mixed-fleet network maximiser with a huge domestic base and unmatched destination count....
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Aviation & Logistics, Qatar Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRIn June 2017 Qatar lost its land border, most of its regional airspace and its main transshipment route through Jebel Ali simultaneously. Within weeks it had established direct shipping services to Oman, Turkey and India, activated a new deep-water port,...
