Thanks to The National, we now know that for more than 10 years, HSBC turned a blind eye to alleged substantial money laundering by Raja Salameh, brother of Lebanon’s former central bank chief, Riad ...

A Lebanese judge on Tuesday referred former central bank governor Riad Salameh to court for trial over the alleged embezzlement of $44 million of the bank's funds, a judicial official said. The move ...

The possibility of Lebanese depositors soon gaining access up to $93 billion stuck in the country's banks is slim to none, ...

Lebanon’s Finance Minister Yassine Jaber told Reuters that he expected a banking secrecy law to be passed in parliament ...

Depositors in Lebanon will receive their funds, which are frozen in the country’s struggling banks, over time as part of an ...

Lebanon adopted a draft law on restructuring its banking sector Saturday, a condition for unlocking international aid to help ...

The former central bank governor faces his first indictment in Lebanon over $44 million in alleged embezzlement, forgery, and ...

Professor of Near Eastern Studies Franck Salameh has been named editor in chief of The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, the flagship publication of the Association of the Study of the Middle ...