Bloomberg Doha Bank QSC plans to expand its foreign operations to compensate for slower growth in Qatar, where a drop in oil prices is causing liquidity to dry up, according to Chief Executive Officer Raghavan Seetharaman. “We have scope for expansion,” he said in an interview at the bank’s headquarters in Doha last week. “It’s not like everything is ...

  Emirates Business Four films supported by the Doha Film Institute have won top honours in key sections of the 69th Cannes Film Festival, including the Best Screenplay and Best Actor awards for The Salesman, co-financed by the Institute, in the Festival’s official competition. DFI grantee film Divines, the debut feature by Houda Benyamina scooped the coveted Camera d’Or prize ...

  Frankfurt / AFP Investor confidence in Germany fell unexpectedly in May as uncertainty over a possible exit by Britain from the European Union overshadowed strong growth data, a leading survey showed on Tuesday. While official data earlier showed that Europe’s biggest economy grew by 0.7 percent in the first three months —double the growth rate of the preceding quarter — ...