Bahrain – MEIRA

In November 2018, MEIRA signed an MOU with Bahrain Bourse. This was the first step in establishing a firm presence on the ground in Bahrain in order to expand our membership base in the country and deliver networking and training events to the local IR community. The MEIRA Bahrain Chapter was formally inaugurated in April 2019 and supported by Bahrain Bourse. The founding members are:

Eline Hilal, Director of Investor Relations, Aluminium Bahrain
Marwa Almaskati (Chapter Head), Director of Marketing & Business Development, Bahrain Bourse
Faisal Qamhiyah, Chief Financial Officer, Batelco
Brendon Hopkins, Group Chief Financial Officer, Bank ABC
Sameh Mohamed Mahmandar, Executive Senior Manager - Financial Control, Ithmaar Holding
Russell Bennett, Chief Financial Officer, NBB
Fadhel Makhlooq, Chief Capital Markets Officer, SICO

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Fri, 04 Oct, 2019

Middle East IR Practitioners Survey 2019

The Middle East IR Practitioners Survey 2019, produced by MEIRA in collaboration with Carter Murray, was released at the 2019 MEIRA Annual Conference. This year's report includes some case studies and interviews with IR professionals in order to analyse the results of our annual survey.

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Sun, 23 May, 2021

Bahrain Bourse Investor Relations Best Practice Guide

As part of Bahrain Bourse's efforts to encourage Investor Relations Best Practices across listed companies, Bahrain Bourse issued the Investor Relations Best Practice Guide. The Investor Relations Guide aims to highlight the importance of the Investor Relations function and the effect of implementing Investor Relations best practices on the valuation and competitiveness of listed companies in the market.

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Sun, 21 Jun, 2020

Bahrain Bourse ESG Reporting Guide

In June 2020, Bahrain Bourse launched its voluntary environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting guideline for listed companies and other stakeholders. The voluntary ESG Guideline includes the latest reporting methodologies widely adopted by the industry and enables listed companies to navigating through the evolving standards on ESG data disclosure. Bahrain Bourse considers environmental, social and governance issues of critical importance to our core business, and takes the ambition of the Bahrain Economic Vision at heart.

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Sun, 04 Oct, 2020

Crisis Communications: Developing an IR strategy for COVID-19

The impact of COVID-19 is being felt broadly, across all regions, sectors and markets. The Investor Relations (IR) professional plays a critical role in how a company communicates through rapidly changing market dynamics. In addition to a well-thought-out crisis communications plan, it is crucial for companies to showcase basic tenets of good corporate governance, such as their leadership and business resiliency, as well as to maintain control of the dialogue when handling a crisis like COVID-19.

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Wed, 10 Jun, 2020

Post-COVID-19: Reshaping business in the Middle East

For nearly all public companies in the region, the Covid-19 pandemic has created unique and profound challenges. The effects of the pandemic, including business interruption as a result of social distancing and closure policies, have meant that management and the Board have had to address unprecedented headwinds and adapt quickly to weather the storm. As restrictions begin to ease across the region and business leaders begin to prepare for operations in a post Covid-19 world, MEIRA surveyed issuers across the region to understand common challenges companies are facing, where priorities lie for management and the Board, and how companies can improve engagement with investors during and after this time.

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Tue, 02 Jun, 2020

COVID-19: The Governance Imperative

Let’s consider two companies. First, one in the manufacturing, dairy and food sector, of course, particularly crucial in times of food safety and security. And the other in the banking sector, again, in many ways, providing the economic lifeblood of funding to regional companies. Both companies represent clear, purposeful, yet nuanced strategic and tactical approaches to the worst global pandemic in our lifetime. To set the scene and better understand the context of the adverse operating and regulatory environment, we asked a leading capital markets lawyer to help us understand the response from regulators in a time of COVID-19. As in all our MEIRA Word articles, the pivotal role of IR will feature front and centre.

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Tue, 24 Mar, 2020

Investor communication in a time of uncertainty

Each day, IROs are presented with new and seemingly impossible challenges to overcome. The outbreak of the COVID-19 has impacted the capital markets but also the entire world and its population. During a crisis, a successful IR function should focus on proactively engaging and communicating with the investment community. This white paper presents some practical pointers to understand how to successfully manage a crisis from an IR perspective, but also some international case studies on how corporates are addressing the current pandemic challenges.

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Wed, 18 Mar, 2020

MEIRA Word: Crisis, what crisis?

We’ll start with the topical case of DP World and its recent announcement that it plans to delist from Nasdaq Dubai this year. While on the face of it, this is a story that hit the markets hard, there is always another way to look at this. Above all, one common element in all our MEIRA Word articles will be the role of IR. We are fortunate to have DP World, a perennial IR award winner, as a supportive member willing to share their IR best practice.

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Interested in joining the Chapter?

Middle East Investor Relations Association
T. +971 (0)5 5786 3307 / E. info@meira.me

Bahrain Bourse
E. mbsd.info@bahrainbourse.com

Find out who is a Certified IR Officer (CIRO) in Bahrain here

Chapter Head

Marwa Al-Maskati

Chapter Head

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Marwa Al-Maskati leads the marketing and business development function of Bahrain Bourse where she is responsible for all new business opportunities and affairs. Since taking on this role in 2014, she has been instrumental in the implementation and establishment of new markets including the Real Estate Investment Trust Market (REIT) in 2016 and the Bahrain Investment Market (BIM) in 2017. Mrs. Al-Maskati has over 17 years of experience in the financial industry with a focus on areas such as strategy development, venture capital, private equity, and business development, having previously worked for a number of prominent organizations. Prior to joining Bahrain Bourse, she held key roles with prominent organizations such as the Central Bank of Bahrain, TAIB Bank, and Tamkeen. Among her notable career achievements during that time include overseeing a $2 billion real estate portfolio and managed to successfully exit assets worth $450 million at TAIB Bank, and helping to develop Tamkeen’s positioning strategy for 2007-2009 as a member of the organization’s strategy development team. Mrs. Al-Maskati earned a First-Class Honors Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde (UK) in 2006 and a Bachelors of Science in Business and Economics from the University of Wales, Swansea (UK) in 2002.