Infrastructure assets offer a particularly attractive investment opportunity, especially given that infrastructure expenditure over the next ten years in the Middle East and North Africa region is estimated to be in excess of $300 billion.

No matter what, in Iraq there's a baseline of humanity, humane treatment.

We are very close to concluding an agreement.

It fills an obvious network gap for us in the Middle East and allows us to forge new direct relationships with major institutions in Kuwait.

I think because the banking system in Iraq is still in its fairly early stages of development it will be a question of putting in place fundamental services,