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Saudi Arabia's National Industrialization Company (Tasnee) has signed a sharia-compliant loan facility worth SR4 billion ($1.06 billion) with seven Saudi banks and Emirates NBD. The Saudi banks which contributed are Riyad Bank, Al Rajhi Bank, Bank Al Bilad, Saudi British Bank, Samba Financial Group, Banque Saudi Fransi and Saudi Investment Bank. The financing, signed on Sunday, will be repaid in eight years including a one-year grace period. The loan, which was covered 1.5 times, will finance the company's stakes in future projects and refinance existing loans.

Saudi-based Al Rajhi Bank posted a slight rise in its second-quarter net profit. The bank made 2.12 billion riyals ($565.3 million) in the three months to June 30, compared with 2.09 billion riyals in the same period a year earlier. Profit for the opening six months of the year was 4.17 billion riyals, up from 4.10 billion riyals in the corresponding period of 2012. The results are in line with analysts' forecasts that expected the bank, on average, to post a net profit of 2.13 billion riyals for the second quarter.

Job Description

Key accountibelites:

Ensure and complete contracting requirements

Coordinate with legal dept, to approve legal contents

Supervisees and direct all the work of the contract and purchasing dept, assuring of the effectiveness and adherence to producers

Prepare the draft , revision and confirmation of contracts and legal documents. As when needed

Orientation of contracts ,legal documents and legal advice, towards protection of bank’s interests

Ensure that legal advice, contracts and recommendations are in conformity with statutes

Al Rajhi Bank will reportedly distribute dividends worth SR2.25bn ($599.9m) for the first six months of 2013. This is equivalent to 1.5 riyals per share. The amount is slightly higher than the 1.25 riyals per share which the bank paid last year. Separately, Banque Saudi Fransi said it would distribute dividends worth SR361.6m ($96.4m) for the first six months of the year. This equates to 0.4 riyals per share. In 2012, Banque Saudi Fransi paid a full-year dividend of 0.8 riyals per share, indicating that this year's payment is in line with that made last year. Al Rajhi is expected to release its second-quarter earnings around July 16.

*JOB PURPOSE:

Responsible for the tasks related to Job Classification & Design including Org. Structure review, job families categorization, position description writing, titles analysis and job evaluation methodologies.

* KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

1.Organization Structure Design

• Able to critique organization structure changes requests
• Understands overlays between functions and is able to identify clear differentiations
• Recognizes and design org structures from a process point of view
• Oracle system understanding in terms of organization creation, position creation and hierarchal updates

Job Description

Key accountibelites

Ensure and complete contracting requirements

Coordinate with legal dept, to approve legal contents

Supervisees and direct all the work of the contract and purchasing dept, assuring of the effectiveness and adherence to producers

Prepare the draft , revision and confirmation of contracts and legal documents. As when needed

Orientation of contracts ,legal documents and legal advice, towards protection of bank’s interests

Ensure that legal advice, contracts and recommendations are in conformity with statutes

Managing a diverse portfolio of accounts
Accept responsibility for achieving targets set
Analysing and managing their credit requirements
Identify new clients needs that can be fulfilled using the bank's product & services offering and grow portfolio in terms of revenue and volume to achieve sales targets
Monitor financial health of the portfolio and assist in managing the credit risk of the entire portfolio
Manage the service experience of the customer

Al Rajhi Bank has launched a new online banking portal to provide its customers with online self-service tools. The new internet banking platform is built using Backbase's Bank 2.0 Portal technology and implemented by Al Rajhi's IT department in partnership with Thales. Backbase allows the banking client to be in control of their portal and makes it possible for Al Rajhi customers to customize their banking interface to their personal needs and preferences. For the e-business side, Backbase allows for cross- and up-sell capabilities along with the ability to target relevant content and functionality to the right customer segments and individual customers.

Major Role Responsibility

• Responsible for meeting/exceeding business growth targets

• Meets potential new clients and spends substantial time on new business development.

• Analyzes working capital requirements for clients.

• Monitors financial health of the clients.

• Analyzes and target opportunities to increase share of wallet

• Makes frequent visits to clients' offices to establish strong relationships and keep track of developments.

• Proposing enhancements to existing products / relationships.

• Proactively identifies needs of the clients and prepares to cater to these needs when they come.

• Solicit new relationship for the bank, based on approved KPIs and asset targets

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IT and Shared Services professionals , Information Security Specialists, Senior Business Analysts, Senior Program Managers, Senior System Analysts

Candidates are expected to have over 5 years of experience at a financial institution.

Engineers
Senior Architect (Dammam) , Minimum 5 years experience in Design, Supervising, Project Management
Senior Architect (Riyadh), Minimum 5 years experience in Design, Supervising, Project Management
Senior Supervisor (Riyadh), Minimum 2 years experience in building mobilization, preferably with a Master’s degree in IT

According to an announcement by the Kuala Lumpur Islamic Financial Forum (KLIFF), Al Rajhi Bank is awarded The Most Outstanding Islamic Finance Product for its Al Rajhi Collateralised Commodity Murabahah-i (CCM-i). The Islamic Finance Awards 2012 ceremony took place in conjunction with the 9th Kuala Lumpur Islamic Finance Forum (KLIFF 2012).

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Indonesia’s Islamic finance industry is attracting investment from Middle Eastern and European banks as regulator is searching to double Shariah-compliant assets to 10% of the total this decade.
According to Mudassir Amray, the head of wholesale banking in Kuala Lumpur, Al Rajhi Bank is pursueing investment banking business in Indonesia and may open branches when the right time comes.
Moreoever, Bank Indonesia is proposing tax breaks to raise the industry, which has grown an average 38% annually over the past five years.

Fitch Ratings has put Al Rajhi Bank's Long-term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'A+' with a Stable Outlook and its Viability Rating at 'a'.
The affirmation of the Viability Rating shows Al Rajhi's strong profitability, stable asset quality and large retail deposit base, whilst also taking into account some name concentration within the corporate loan portfolio in line with other Saudi banks.

Al Rajhi Bank has accessed the Jordaniani market, being the first bank in Jordan that provides a Shariah-compliant, Murabaha-based personal finance program to individuals that also allows them to consolidate debts in a single installment, all this while enjoying a variety of added benefits, including one-hour approvals and 24-hour financing.
The banks main objective is to introduce quality products and services specifically tailored to meet the demands of the local market.

Kuwait's indebted The Investment Dar Company held its first face-to-face meeting with the reconstituted Coordinating Committee last Thursday in Dubai.
At the meeting, the documentation relating to the official engagement of the committee was finalised, it said, and added that committee membership now includes Jordan International Bank, ABC Islamic Bank, Lloyds TSB Middle East, Al Rajhi Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait.

Total assets of lslamic banks globally is expected to hit $700 billion, out of which two thirds is in the Arab Gulf region.
Saudi Arabia's Al Rajhi Bank is the biggest Islamic lender in the region, holding assets of $48.41 billion, followed by Kuwait Finance House at $41.57 billion.

MUSLIM countries should allocate a fraction of their sovereign funds to financial institutions which have the expertise to invest in syariah-compliant investment funds and instruments.
Perak Regent Raja Dr Nazrin Shah said one of the driving forces for Islamic finance to prosper is for large investment organisations such as sovereign wealth funds of Muslim countries to take a developmental view when determining their asset allocations.
Initiatives such as the commodity trading paltform Bursa Suq Al-Sila can be utilised to facilitate liquidity management of Islamic financial instituions.
Saudi Arabia's Al Rajhi Bank and Cagamas Bhd also collaborated to issue an innovative sukuk which aims to meet the syariah demands of investors in the Middle East as well as in Asia.

Press Release

Saudi Arabia-Based Al Rajhi Bank Upgraded To 'A+' On Strengthened Financial Profile;
Outlook Stable

*We consider that Al Rajhi Bank's strong market position in the Saudi retail market,
superior profitability, growth strategy with solid capital ratios, and improved risk
management have strengthened the bank's financial profile. *We are raising our
long-term rating on Al Rajhi Bank to 'A+' from 'A' and affirming our 'A-1'
short-term rating. *The stable outlook reflects our view that Al Rajhi Bank should
continue to benefit from its comparative advantage as a leading and well-entrenched
Islamic bank in Saudi Arabia and maintain superior financial performance and capital
adequacy.

PARIS (Standard & Poor's) May 31, 2010--Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said
today that it has raised to 'A+' from 'A' its long-term counterparty credit rating
on Saudi Arabia-based Al Rajhi Bank (ARB) and affirmed its 'A-1' short-term
counterparty credit rating. The outlook is stable.

"The rating action reflects our view that ARB's stand-alone credit profile has
strengthened in the recent past, thanks to its unique market position in the Saudi

Saudi Arabia's regulator has fined the country's biggest Islamic bank, Al-Rajhi , for not notifying it about the resignation of two senior executives, the regulator said.

According to a survey published originally by the newspaper Al Qabas it results that Al Rajhi Bank with its market value of USD 22.4 bn was ahead of leading global banks, including: Morgan Stanley with USD 20.88 bn, Deutsche Bank with USD 13.83 bn, Barclays with USD 11.58 bn, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) with USD 10.93 bn and Citibank with USD 10.63 bn.