‘Smart money’ moving towards Iranian capital market: IFB CEO

To reach an average 8 percent economic growth during the next five-year period, according to decree of the Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and following withdrawal of the financial embargo in January, the Iranian administration is shifting from a bank-based financial system into a more market-based one…

World’s biggest bank requests to set up branches in Iran

A top banking official in Tehran said on Thursday that the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) – the world’s largest bank by total assets – has request to open branches in Iran. Hossein Yaqoubi Miab, the director for the international affairs of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI),…