Iraqi Banking Sector to grow with the Economy -- 151 percent between 2011 to 2020</h1> <article> <h1>Iraqi Banking Sector to grow with the Economy -- 151 percent between 2011 to 2020</h1> <p>2014-05-27T07:19:58+00:00</p> <p></p> <div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: left;"> </div> <p><a href="kurdistan-sector-analysis.htm"><span><br /> Kurdistan Sector Analysis </span></a></p> <div style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: #f8931d; padding-left: 0px;">Iraqi Banking Sector to grow with the Economy -- 151 percent between 2011 to 2020</div> <p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-left: 0px;">As Iraq finds itself soon midway through 2014, the banking sector has grown markedly in the previous year term, with established names getting larger and new names entering the field.</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Telecom and ICT Sector in Iraq and Kurdistan: Deployment of 4G LTE, IPOs and Other Developments</h1> <p>2013-05-30T10:04:02+00:00</p> <p><a href="telecom-and-ict-sector-in-iraq-and-kurdistan-deployment-of-4g-lte-ipos-and-other-developments-3005.htm"></a></p> <div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: left;"></div> <p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-left: 0px;">Autonomous Kurdistan has found itself with a comparative advantage in the telecoms department, with defacto faster Internet connections and consistent mobile service compared to the rest of federal Iraq.</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan: Banking Sector Analysis</h1> <p>2013-05-30T00:00:00+00:00</p> <a href="iraq-and-iraqi-kurdistan-banking-sector-analysis-1104.htm"></a><br /><a href="kurdistan-sector-analysis.htm"><span style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #666666; padding-left: 0px;"> <p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-left: 0px;">In a region of nearly five million citizens and hundreds of new business operations, banking experts refer to autonomous Kurdistan as "underbanked" and thus see opportunity in opening branches there or creating entirely new banks.</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Islamic Banking in Iraq: A Growing Niche</h1> <p>2013-03-29T11:57:54+00:00</p> <p><a href="islamic-banking-in-iraq-a-growing-niche-2903.htm"></a></p> <div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: left;"></div> <p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-left: 0px;">As for Halal banking (Islamic Banking and Finance), We see prospectus for emergence and growth of Islamic finance and banking in Kurdistan in as much as the state is part of the larger Muslim MENA countries.</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Korek Telecom: Erbil-based Company Top Player in Iraqi Mobile Space</h1> <p>2013-03-21T14:27:03+00:00</p> <p><a href="korek-telecom-erbil-based-company-top-player-in-iraqi-mobile-space-2103.htm"></a></p> <div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: left;"></div> <p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-left: 0px;">Korek is a big player in Iraq now, "we have nationwide coverage. We increased our market share by 4 percent in less than a year: we moved from 11 to 15.7 percent."</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Newroz Telecom is Building a High-Speed Broadband ADSL Network in Erbil and Dohuk</h1> <p>2013-03-20T08:45:30+00:00</p> <p><a href="newroz-is-building-a-high-speed-broadband-adsl-network-in-erbil-and-dohuk-2003.htm"></a></p> <div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: left;"></div> <p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-left: 0px;">Newroz Telecom is building a high-speed broadband ADSL network in Erbil and Dohuk and laying more than 1,500 kilometers of fiber-optic cable, according to the Newroz Telecom website.</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Iraq's Stock Exchange: Bull in Iraq</h1> <p>2013-02-28T19:02:30+00:00</p> <a href="iraqs-stock-exchange-bull-in-iraq-2802.htm"></a> <div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: left;"></div> <p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-left: 0px;">Among the small but growing band of investors in the Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX), the question most asked is whether 2013 will mark the start of a new bull market.</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Kurdistan: Agriculture Taking Second Place to Oil Development</h1> <p>2013-02-25T19:06:42+00:00</p> <p><a href="kurdistan-agriculture-taking-second-place-to-oil-development-2502.htm"></a></p> <div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: left;"></div> <p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-left: 0px;">Investing in the agriculture sector is of continuing interest to the KRG, for reasons practical – becoming food self-sufficient- and also for reasons historical and cultural.</p> <p> </p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Newroz Telecom: Building the Infrastructure for Iraqi Kurdistan's Internet</h1> <p>2013-02-08T00:00:00+00:00</p> <p></p> <div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: left;"></div> <p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-left: 0px;">Imagine it is 2005 and the Internet penetration rate of Kurdistan (KRG) is near to zero, the only telecom was the government monopoly entity with aging exchanges and no fiber optics.</p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Kirkuk: Kurdistan's Statehood Aspirations and Oil</h1> <p>2013-01-08T22:11:40+00:00</p> <p></p> <div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: left;"></div> <p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-left: 0px;">For some time the Northern Iraq city and province of Kirkuk has been the political, security and economic fault line between the increasingly autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, and federal Iraq.</p> <p> </p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> </article> <article> <h1>Kurdistan Oil & Gas: Oil Sector Growing Amid Political Wrangling</h1> <p>2013-01-07T00:00:00+00:00</p> <p><a href="kurdistan-oil-gas-oil-sector-growing-amid-political-wrangling-0701.htm"></a></p> <div style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: left;"></div> <p style="line-height: normal; text-align: left; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-left: 0px;">Driving the region's economy is Kurdistan's gas and oil reserves, estimated respectively at 100-200 trillion cubic feet and 45 billion barrels, with possibly another 25 billion potential barrels in unproven reserve.</p> <p> </p> <p class="feed-readmore"><a target="_blank" href ="">Read More...</a></p> </article> </main></body></html>