Regional e-FX Perspective on the Middle East — e-FOREX
July 22, 2015 | By: Flex Advantage
e-FOREX’s Richard Willsher investigates FX trading in the Middle East region, which not only presents a mixed picture of accelerating growth in technology but also slower development in product offerings. FlexTrade’s Vishal Kapadia, Vice President of Business Development in Mumbai, comments.
From the article:
The Middle East region needs careful definition. The Arabian peninsula provides a useful guide, as it includes the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait. Lebanon and Jordan fall within our definition. We can effectively exclude Syria, Iraq and Iran from our e-forex market for reasons of conflict and sanctions, while further north Turkey’s geographic location, economic and trade dynamics set it apart and beyond the Middle East region. Using this as our working map includes a patchwork of countries moving at different speeds for a variety of different reasons though a unifying theme is the increasing growth of improved communications infrastructure and the inexorable spread of e-trading trading technology.