IFR Magazine - October 27, 2018

Flow of funds to Saudi threatened

by fallout from Khashoggi murder

„ Emerging Markets After US$80bn of financing, could funds now start to dry up?

BY GARETH GORE

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HSBC and CS lead banks at Saudi conference

„ Emerging Markets All major banks send delegations despite murder of journalist

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“We had been hoping

to showcase our

ambitions and talk

about our projects, but

it’s all been drowned

out by what happened”

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