While the banking crisis remains unresolved, there is still ample scope for Lebanon’s central bank to advance reforms and set ...
Lebanon's former central bank governor Riad Salameh walked free from a year in custody over embezzlement allegations Friday ...
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Lebanon urged to sell gold to counter economic crisis

Lebanon should sell part of its vast gold reserves to revive its crippled financial sector and repay billions in frozen deposits, a global finance body has said. The proposal is part of a five-year ...
Lebanon's central bank governor Riad Salameh is about to step down from the top job after 30 years. But he leaves behind an economy in a state of collapse, and a country in the grip of one of the ...
Lebanon’s Central Bank chief was again charged with corruption on Wednesday, this time after failing to show up for questioning before a European legal team visiting Beirut in a money-laundering probe ...
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s embattled central bank governor stepped down Monday under a cloud of investigation and blame for his country’s economic crisis as several European countries are probing his alleged ...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's central bank, seeking to shore up battered confidence in the financial system amid the worst economic crisis in decades, said on Monday bank deposits are secure and it had ...
The World Bank says poverty in Lebanon has tripled over the course of a decade. The percentage of people in Lebanon living below the poverty line rose from 12% in 2012 to 44% in 2022, according to a ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s new central bank governor vowed Friday that the institution will fight money laundering and the financing of terrorism and will work independently away from political ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Unknown assailants lobbed an explosive device at a private bank branch in southern Lebanon on Saturday, damaging its facade and roof, the country’s state news agency reported. The ...
Depositors held up at least five separate banks around Lebanon on Friday in an attempt to retrieve savings frozen in the banking system, a Lebanese army official told CNN. In one of the incidents an ...