Al-Baraka Banking Group, Bahrain-based, held its second strategic annual meeting in Amman during the period 10-11/6/2008 in Grand Hyatt Amman headed by the CEO of ABG & Chairman of JIB H.E. Mr. Adnan Ahmed Yousif with the participation of the CEOs and General Managers of the Group's subsidiaries.
H.E expressed his full happiness for holding the meeting in his second country Jordan , and under the sponsorship of Jordan Islamic Bank which is considered one of the Group's largest banks and of the largest Islamic banks which has long experience in the Islamic banking market.
He added that this meeting handled the five-year future plan for the Group's banks. The plan aims at promoting the pioneer position of the ABG in the regional and international markets, and to show the Group's ability to transform to an Islamic universal bank offering investment services in compliance with the glorious Islamic Sharia'.
On another hand, H.E. Mr. Musa Shihadeh, Vice Chairman & General Manager of JIB, said that the meeting comes in line with the Group's strategic plan in order to enhance its regional and international banking position through coordinating the efforts of all banking units to apply the plan and evaluating the financial banking performance of the Group to reach significant recommendations which contribute to easily implement the work strategies that positively affect the Group's performance.
