Program alert for January 15th

Show timings
Friday: 12:15 UAE, 11:15 Bahrain & Qatar
Repeats:
Saturday: 09:45 UAE, 08:45 Bahrain & Qatar
Sunday: 11:15 UAE 10:15 Bahrain & Qatar
 
 
 
IN FOCUS – IRAQ’S SMALL BUSINESS SUCCESS
 
For businesses in Iraq security is not the only problem, so is getting access to credit.  For businessmen in the country finding finance for companies can be a long and complicated process. Now a non-governmental organization is facing the lack of credit problem head on, providing loans ranging from $5000 to $250 000. Since the program began in the spring of 2008, more than 970 Iraqi entrepreneurs have borrowed close to $18 million from nine private banks. This week MME takes a look at some of the small business owners in Iraq who attribute their success to this program.
 
FACETIME: Umayya Toukan, Governor, Central Bank of Jordan
He has been the Central Bank Governor of Jordan since 2001 and this week is being awarded as Middle East Central Bank Governor of 2009. The award from ‘The Banker Magazine’ celebrates his conservative banking and maintaining stability and growth in the overall banking sector within Jordan. MME talks to Umayya Toukan, the Governor of Jordan’s Central Bank about his projections for the region in 2010.