How banking regulations can fairly allocate losses and avert future crises.
Articles tagged "Financial crisis"
Fuelling Addiction: How Importers And Politicians Keep Lebanon Hooked On Oil
Eliminating national oil dependence will clear out conflicts of interest.
Force For Funds: Saving Lebanon’s Army From Financial Collapse
Only a modern, neutral and sustainable LAF can survive the economic crisis.
Salvaging Syndicates: How to Defend and Strengthen Lebanon’s Pension Funds
In light of Lebanon’s economic turmoil and pension crisis , how can we safeguard the retirement savings of Lebanese citizens?
Risky Business: How Syndicates Exposed Pensions To Lebanon’s Banking Crisis
The urgent need to salvage and reform worker’s retirement schemes.
A Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign Against Entities Impeding a Fair Solution to Lebanon’s Financial Crisis
Exploring financial crimes in Lebanon, depositors’ pursuit of justice, the BDS campaign against banking elites, and the challenges of money recovery.
Foreign Legal Pressure Can Corner Lebanon’s Banking Elites
When Lebanon’s financial sector imploded, it was inevitable that the country’s elites would try to shunt those losses onto everyday Lebanese. Over several years, Lebanese bankers had gambled away their customers’ savings, leaving banks unable to meet their debts by October 2019 – if not earlier....
See You In Court: Foreign Legal Pressure Can Corner Lebanon’s Banking Elites
Pathways for Lebanese depositors to force bankers towards a fair deal.
Carrots And Sticks: How Sanctions and Principled Aid Can Bring Lebanon’s Politicians to The Table
Sanctions and principled aid can pull Lebanon back from the abyss – but only by targeting the banking sector and carefully monitoring the state’s role in aid distribution
Breaking Point: The Collapse of Lebanon’s Water Sector
How misplaced aid, elite capture, and a devalued currency are causing crisis in the water sector.
Driving Disaster: Lebanon’s Shadow Financial Plan
How a clandestine plan is forcing the Lebanese people to pay for a banking crisis created by elites.
Unfair Game: Lebanon’s Rigged Markets Are Killing Competition
For decades, Lebanon’s economy has overwhelmingly served the interests of certain economic actors, who preside over widespread monopolies and oligopolies.
Breaking the Bank: Alternative Pathways to Lebanon’s Broken Banking Sector
How credit unions can bring more accountability to Lebanese finance.
Shake On It: A Fair IMF Package For Lebanon
Defaulting on Lebanon’s foreign-held debt may have patched up the country’s financial wounds, but it has not stopped the internal bleeding.
Going Hungry: The Empty Plates & Pockets Of Lebanon
The fight to prevent hunger amidst pandemic and recession.
Coming Clean: Time to Open Lebanon’s Chamber of Banking Secrets
How Lebanon’s banking secrecy laws facilitate tax dodging and harm the national economy.
Extend and Pretend: Lebanon’s Financial House of Cards
How Lebanon’s politicians and banks constructed a regulated ponzi scheme that ran the country’s economy into the ground.
Catch Up Time: Reforming Electronic Money Transfers In Lebanon
Lebanese banks and financial companies that provide electronic money transfer (EMT) services profit off consumers through transfer fees and hidden exchange rates that are nothing less than exploitative.
A New Financial Deal for Lebanon: Debt Relief and Well Designed Stimulus can Pull Lebanon out of Economic Malaise
Instead of continuing to support unaffordable housing prices, Lebanon’s central bank needs to lead a drive for public debt relief and remodel its stimulus packages to serve the public interest.