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Najib
Mar 25, 2023 10:18
Patrick George, a Lebanese expat and Concordia graduate, kicked off his banking career with a Lebanese private bank in 1994 before moving to HSBC in 1996 to manage the Emerging Markets Equities product covering Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa. Patrick then took over several positions at HSBC, mainly as Global Head of Equities, responsible for all Equity-related Sales, Trading and financing activities from 2008-2016 and Global Head of Markets & Securities Services ,…
Posted By
Najib
Mar 24, 2023 11:23
The Minister of Public Works & Transport announced on Twitter yesterday plans to build a new terminal at the Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport with a foreign investment of $122 million, noting that no expansion plans have been undertaken at the current airport since 1998. However, Lebanon's imminent need is for a new airport far away from Beirut, not for a new terminal. No new terminal is going to fix the problems surrounding the existing airport,…
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