Chief Who Built Biggest Arab Bank Takes Over Qatar Finances

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For Ali Shareef Al Emadi, managing the finances of the world’s richest country is a job he’s already been involved in for eight years.

During that time, the chief executive officer of Qatar National Bank SAQ, who was appointed finance minister in a new Qatari government late yesterday, helped build the company into the Middle East’s biggest lender. QNB grew its assets to more than $100 billion in the period, the only Arab bank to reach that threshold, data compiled by Bloomberg show.