Middle East Banking and Finance; a collection of the winning essays submitted in the 1995 writing competition of Arab Bankers Association of North America

The volume is a collection of the winning essays submitted in the 1995 writing competition of the Arab Bankers Association of North America, Inc. sponsored by Arab Bank PLC; Gulf International Bank, BSC; Abdulaziz A. Al-Sulaiman Group; Arab American Bank; Arab Banking Corporation; and National Bank of Kuwait Sak. Three papers, as follow. are included: 1. Al-Mazeedi, Adel and Yaksick, Rudy. The oil trust; an energy financing mechanism linking Arab banks and oil companies.2. Eichfeld, Andy. The Hawala system; a model of the informal channel for remittances in the Middle East and South Asia.3. Gillespie, Kate; Riddle, Liesl; Sayre, Edward A; Sturges, David. Financing Palestine; Palestinian-American attitudes toward homeland investment.