Analysis

• BANKING

  Major Banks Expanding in Saudi Arabia

  SUSTG Team  |  4. 17. 2012

  “We’d be crazy to limit ourselves to a handful of bankers when we can see oil prices are going to sustain the Saudi economy for the foreseeable future,” Rory Gilbert, the head of Middle East and North Africa at London-based Barclays’s wealth management unit, said.

• SECURITY

  A Nuclear Iran: CNN

  SUSTG Team  |  4. 17. 2012

  What do we really know about the Iranian nuclear threat? Iran says it wants the right to have its peaceful nuclear program formally recognized.

• TELECOM

  Saudi ‘tops in mobile users’

  SUSTG Team  |  4. 16. 2012

  Saudi Arabia has the highest proportion of mobile phone users in the world with 188 per cent, followed by Vietnam and Oman in the second and third places respectively, according to a recent study.

• SECURITY

  The Menu of Options in the Iranian Nuclear Talks

  SUSTG Team  |  4. 12. 2012

  In the weeks leading up to the talks, getting all six countries to agree on a cohesive bargaining strategy with Iran has been almost as hard as getting Tehran to agree to, well, anything.

• POLITICS

  Saudi Defense Minister Prince Salman Visits Pentagon, White House

  SUSTG Team  |  4. 12. 2012

  Saudi Defense Minister Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz held talks at the Pentagon on Wednesday that focused on the crisis in Syria, hours before a ceasefire deadline was due to expire.

• GCC

  Saudi Arabia & the GCC – post ‘Arab Spring’: Obaid

  SUSTG Team  |  4. 11. 2012

  This week Mr. Nawaf Obaid, former strategic adviser to Prince Turki Al-Faisal, presented a briefing titled, “Saudi Arabia & the GCC in a Post ‘Arab Spring’ Environment” at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as part of a program examining responses among GCC states to the “Arab Spring” turmoil

• TRADE

  Al-Rabiah moves to push foreign trade and investment

  SUSTG Team  |  4. 11. 2012

  Commerce and Industry Minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah yesterday opened a major workshop for the development of Saudi commercial attaches as part of the ministry’s efforts to promote trade and investment relations with foreign countries.

• OIL CONSUMPTION

  Graphic: The Rise of Saudi Oil Consumption

  Richard Wilson  |  4. 5. 2012

  Saudi Arabia uses as much oil per person as America, largely to run oil-fired power plants to run domestic air conditioners. And the more of its oil siphoned off for such uses, the less cushion there is in the worlds oil supply. Thats a big problem now but is becoming less of one.

• BUSINESS

  Critical Commercial and Economic Ties: Interview with Jose Fernandez

  SUSTG Team  |  4. 3. 2012

  The 2nd US-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum in Atlanta in December brought together a high level delegation of over 200 Saudi officials and business people with over 1000 Americans to explore the $1 trillion-plus commercial openings available in the coming decade in the Kingdom.