by Bloomberg Businessweek Middle East Dominic Dudley With more women and 'Generation Ys' becoming clients, private banks are having to respond to new demands Once a year, Azeemeh Zaheer, a vice president of Kuwaiti-owned Gatehouse Bank, travels from London to Jeddah. It’s not the sort of trip that private bankers usually make to the Gulf. [...]
by Dr. Daniel Diemers, Dr. Peter Gassmann, and Jihad K. Khalil (Strategy& Viewpoint, December 2014) Basel III forces regional banks to take a hard look at their capital allocation and deploy their capital more strategically by calling for higher capital requirements and more stringent definitions of capital. Financial institutions should consider the new rules as [...]
Published in The National, UAE (link) Author: Linday Carroll October 25, 2014 DUBAI // Efforts to promote the use of Bitcoin in the UAE have stalled amid uncertainty over how it is regulated here and in the wider region. “We reached a point where we are still uncertain about complying with regulations, which is where [...]
diemers.net proudly presents an exclusive interview with Dr. Science of Atlantis and Pat Boon of the CFA How do you rate this year´s scene party in the Netherlands? A fat slab of sizzling Spare Ribs or smelly old Herring in a soaky sleeping bag? Pat: Think a big, fat rack of spicy sizzling Dutch spare [...]
Someren, Holland 24 – 26 October 2014 Every two years the rural village of Someren in the Netherlands is the center of the Commodore 64 Scene. The former and ruling elite comes from all over the world to bring you the very best in good, old 8-bit computing. So be sure to book your personal [...]
September 8, 2014 by Daniel Diemers and Walid Boustany Article published in: The Executive Magazine, Lebanon (Link) This article is part of an Executive special report on wealth management and private banking. Read more stories as they’re published here, or pick up September’s issue at newsstands in Lebanon. The GCC continues to be a standout region [...]
The most recent in a growing body of wealth insights by Booz & Company looks at the prospects for the global wealth management industry in 2014/15. According to the study, assets under management have seen a significant upswing around the world but these gains have not translated into the top-and-bottom-line growth that wealth managers would [...]
The arpanet, or in more contemporary words, internet slash world wide web has always been about security. This was the case in the 80´ies, and it is more than ever so today. Many do still remember that landmark movie “hackers” where a little kid saved the world from an atomic third world war. Simply by [...]
Hello and Welcome traveller. It was sometime in the early nineties, when HTML became popular and i decided to dust off my old programming skills in old school languages such as Fortran, Assembler, Basic, Pascal, and try to make my own little website. In 1995 diemers.net was officially launched, a student´s project where i uploaded [...]
