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1 February, 2016Euromoney, February 2016
There is a new website at the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC). ’10 Years’, the home page now says. ‘A decade of facilitating success.’ In many ways, however, it has been a decade of looking for a direction. The QFC’s mandate has evolved throughout its life and has recently shifted again, broadening to include economic diversification where once it was deliberately focused on asset management. There have been a number of interesting deals – notably the asset management ventures set up by Credit Suisse and Barclays, and the arrival of Axa – but it is still hard to argue that the QFC has been a success.
Full article: http://www.euromoney.com/Article/3525563/Middle-East-From-differentiation-pains-to-diversification-gains
Chris Wright
Chris is a journalist specialising in business and financial journalism across Asia, Australia and the Middle East. He is Asia editor for Euromoney magazine and has written for publications including the Financial Times, Institutional Investor, Forbes, Asiamoney, the Australian Financial Review, Discovery Channel Magazine, Qantas: The Australian Way and BRW. He is the author of No More Worlds to Conquer, published by HarperCollins.