Lebanese resilience is being severely tested by the ongoing financial crisis. Economic and social costs are overwhelming, businesses and jobs are disappearing, as poverty spirals out of control. The ...

This is one of the biggest exits involving a Lebanese entrepreneur. Digital Surgery, the London-based e-healthcare startup, has just been acquired by Medtronic, a world leader in medical technology, ...

When Banque du Liban (BDL) released Circular 331 in 2013, it raised hopes that the country would soon become a startup nation. The circular paved the way for dozens of startups, incubators and ...

The economic and social crisis that launched the October 17 uprising, pushing hundreds of thousands of Lebanese to the streets, is the symptom of a model of development that has never worked. Forty ...

Maurice Sehnaoui is undoubtedly one of those who saw the crisis coming. At the helm of SGBL for many years, then BLC Bank, the banker and former energy minister disengaged from Leba-non in 2018 in ...

Why is debt restructuring inevitable? Lebanon’s public debt, standing at more than 150% of GDP, is unsustainable. With an average coupon of 7% per year, the interest payment alone absorbs 10% of ...

«Faux, usage de faux», «pot-de-vin», «escroquerie», «manquements professionnels»…Voici les chefs d’accusations retenus contre 22 personnes, physiques et morales, à l’issue de la phase d’instruction de ...

Le magazine Forbes Middle East a publié pour la première fois un « Top 35 des Libanais les plus influents du monde des affaires ». Plusieurs des personnalités nominées se sont vues remettre leur prix ...

Le groupe Pharaon, qui emploie aujourd’hui plus de 2 000 personnes dans 14 pays, dans des domaines aussi variés que le secteur pharmaceutique, l’assurance et le commerce, fête ses 150 ans. Un ...

Contrairement aux multinationales du tabac, dont l’image auprès de l’opinion publique mondiale n’a fait que se dégrader ces dernières années, la Régie libanaise des tabacs a plus que jamais le vent en ...

Darmmess, une toute nouvelle huile d’olive libanaise, vient de recevoir la médaille d’or 2020 du Concours international d’huile d’olive, organisé à Palmi, en Italie, le 13 juin 2020. Ce prix, qui ...

Japanese prosecutors have launched a new investigation against former Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn into allegations of “aggravated breach of trust”. At the heart of these new allegations is Ghosn’s ...