Marcopolis presents the Saudi Arabia Report focused on the investments, doing business, economy and other topics featuring interviews with key executives. The sectors under review in this issue are industry, real-estate, ICT, investments, banking sector, telecom sector and many more.
"Standard Chartered is very keen to assist in developing the secondary trading market in bonds and sukuks in the Kingdom," argues Dr. Boutros Klink, CEO of Standard Chartered.
"In terms of companies and financial institutions issuing securities, I would say that this is again a relatively recent phenomenon. There is definitely a huge demand for such securities given the scarcity. A lot of this is placed very quickly through private placements that are significantly oversubscribed. To date, a very limited number of fixed income instruments is listed and trades on the Tadawul."