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40°C |
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30°C |
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05 : 30 AM |
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Sunset |
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06 : 30 PM |
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50 to 80 per cent |
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03:58 am |
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Dhuhr |
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12:09 pm |
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Asar |
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03:30 pm |
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Magrib |
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06:50 pm |
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Isha |
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08:09 pm |
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24ct / gm |
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17.37 |
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22ct / gm |
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17.00 |
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Forex Rates vs R01
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2.60 |
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2.01 |
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Pound |
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1.72 |
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Indian Rs. |
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144.42 |
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Pak Rs. |
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255.85 |
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Bangla Taka |
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201.35 |
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Dubai: Barclays, which is cutting 3,700 jobs as it reduces costs by $2.6 billion a year, said it plans further expansion in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) on rising demand for wealth management and investment banking services.
Barclays, which employees about 1,000 people in the region, expects to hire about 100 more this year and has a "healthy pipeline" of debt capital market and M&A deal mandates, John Vitalo, the bank's Chief Executive Officer for the Middle East and North Africa, said in an interview in Dubai. The London-based bank announced global job cuts and a plan to cut costs last month as CEO Antony Jenkins revamps the lender after its 290 million-pound ($436 million) fine for interest- rate manipulation and first annual loss in two decades. In the Middle East, Barclays plans to hire in wealth management, investment banking and retail, and Vitalo said he's "cautiously optimistic" on the fee pool for capital markets and advisory.
"This region is one of the world's few macroeconomic bright spots and we're fortunate to be in a position to take advantage of that," Vitalo said. "The 3,700 job cuts Anthony referred to are not targeted at the Middle East."
Private wealth in the Middle East and Africa may rise 6.6 per cent annually to $6.1 trillion in 2016 as the region's oil-rich economies continue to prosper, the Boston Consulting Group said in June. Wealth in the region increased to $4.5 trillion last year, up 4.7 per cent from $4.3 trillion in 2010.
'Personal wealth'
"That personal wealth is a great opportunity for our wealth management business, but also in the UAE for retail banking which is focused on the affluent sector," he said. "There's opportunity just about everywhere we look."
Vitalo said the fee pool in the Middle East is recovering after falling "consistently" from its peak between 2007 and 2008 and he's "cautiously optimistic" on its growth for 2013.
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