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Summary
Financial institutions across the Middle East and Africa are navigating a complex landscape where higher interest rates continue to support earnings yet funding challenges, and asset quality pressures are emerging as growth slows, and inflation persists. Energy-market volatility, especially fluctuations in oil prices and disruptions around key transit points adds further uncertainty directly influencing bank profitability and risk appetite. At the same time, private capital flows are becoming increasingly selective, with LP allocations shifting and fundraising cycles lengthening, making cash-flow visibility and downside protection more critical than ever.
Join us as our speakers connect the macroeconomic backdrop to banking fundamentals and private-market capital raising, providing a forward-looking perspective on how capital is being raised and deployed across the region.
Key Takeaways:
- Review key profitability metrics and examine how asset quality is evolving across different markets.
- Assess the strength of bank capital buffers and analyse exposure to sovereign risk in the current environment.
- Discuss how volatility in energy markets and persistent inflation are affecting financial stability, liquidity, and the cost of capital.
- Explore recent fundraising trends, changing investor appetite, and how capital is being deployed in a more selective landscape.
Speakers
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Hassan Ilyas
Business Development Team Lead
Hassan Ilyas leads Business Development as part of the Data & Research team across the Middle East and Africa, working closely with financial institutions to drive efficiency and enhance decision-making through the adoption of Capital IQ Pro. He is responsible for shaping regional strategy and planning, generating thought leadership, and designing targeted go-to-market initiatives to support growth across MEA markets.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Anastasia Shourbaji
Associate Director Sales
Anastasia Shourbaji is a Sales Associate Director specializing in Desktop & API Solutions at S&P Global, where she has built a 7-year career spanning 3 regions, beginning in Argentina, advancing through Central Europe, and most recently supporting clients across the GCC. She works closely with financial institutions, capital markets, sovereign wealth funds, private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds, helping them solve complex data challenges through tailored S&P Global solutions.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Salma Ouaguira
Financial Reporter - With Intelligence
Salma Ouaguira is an EMEA financial reporter at S&P Global’s With Intelligence covering institutional investor activity across the Middle East and North Africa. She specializes in private markets and alternatives providing on-the-ground insight into how sovereign wealth funds, family offices, banks and other allocators are positioning their portfolios and their evolving risk appetite.
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