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How Lebanon’s banks can get money back to depositors

One of the biggest names in the stricken financial sector calls for 'hope' amid the crisis that has reduced millions to poverty and ruined the country's reputation. There is now a detailed plan.

Salwa Baalbaki 20 July 2024

Lebanon's outgoing central bank governor Riad Salameh.

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Salameh gives farewell interview steeped in contradictions

Lebanon's central bank governor leaves office after three decades, leaving depositors and the fate of their life savings in the hands of a crude ruling elite

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The reputation of monetary and financial policymakers can shift over time. For the governor of Lebanon's central bank, his has collapsed more suddenly, along with the country's financial sector.

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How a central bank’s failings led to Lebanon’s financial collapse

The reputation of monetary and financial policymakers can shift over time. For the governor of Lebanon's central bank, his has collapsed more suddenly, along with the country's financial sector.

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Lebanese Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh stands next to gold at the central bank in Beirut, in this handout picture obtained by Reuters on November 24, 2022. Lebanon central bank/Handout via REUTERS

Lebanese Prosecutor Seeks to Question Actress in Salameh Graft Probe

A Lebanese prosecutor said on Thursday she had ordered security forces to bring in for questioning a Lebanese actress for whom central bank chief Riad Salameh was suspected of buying luxury property…

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