Under the patronage of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the annual conference of the Federation of Arab Stock Exchanges was launched at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beirut on April 26, 2017, in the presence of the Governor of the Banque du Liban Riad Salameh and Mr. Saad Azhari, Vice President of the Association of Banks in Lebanon and Chairman of BLOM Bank, and many banking and economic bodies representatives, along with officials and mass media professionals.
On the occasion, Mr. Saad Azhari gave a speech on the performance of the Lebanese banking sector and the role played by the latter in the development of financial markets.