Andrew Cunningham has spent more than 30 years consulting on and writing about risk, regulation and governance, based in London, New York and the Middle East. Read More
Andrew Cunningham is the Founder and Managing Director of Darien Analytics Ltd, a UK-based consulting firm that focusses on risk, regulation and governance in both developed and emerging markets. He is a Visiting Professor at the London Institute of Banking and Finance and sits on the advisory committee of the European Chapter of the MENA Financial Crime Compliance Group. He has a long involvement with the Middle East and Islamic finance. From 2013 to 2021 he was the Editor of Arab Banker magazine.
Andrew is based in London and is proficient in French and Arabic and he has a good working knowledge of Greek.
Recent and current projects include advising a bank in Albania on how to bring its Governance practices into line with international standards; training bank directors and senior government officials in Tunisia on governance and risk management; and developing a new methodology for assessing the quality of governance at state-owned enterprises.
In this article from the September 2021 edition of Arab Banker, I reviewed Kuwait’s short-term and long-term budgetary challenges.
Here is my review of recent events in Lebanon. Written in August 2021, it remains relevant as the Lebanese crisis deepens.
Here is an analysis of how banking in the GCC has changed over the past 40 years, with two tables showing the biggest banks in 2019 and in 1988.