Latest economic and financial news about Syria, currency markets, and regional economy updates.
The Central Bank of Syria issued a decision barring banks from charging commissions on salary and zero-balance accounts and requiring full disclosure of all fees, giving lenders one month to comply.
Read More →Syria's tourism minister said memoranda worth about $1.5 billion have become binding contracts exceeding $3 billion, as French and Gulf operators commit to hotel and development projects.
Read More →Syria will pay retiree pensions at post offices in all governorates from 8 to 25 November 2026. A presidential decision also resumes pensions halted for security reasons before 8 December 2024 and pays the accumulated arrears.
Read More →Syria and Saudi Arabia signed memorandums on industrial cooperation, agriculture and environmental protection during President Ahmed al-Sharaa's second visit to Riyadh in under a month, alongside six concessional loan agreements worth more than $403 million.
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Syria and Saudi Arabia sign six concessional loan agreements worth $403.6 million to finance healthcare, housing, civil defense, electricity, water and digital transformation projects, with a 20-year repayment period including five years of grace.
Read More →The Syrian Petroleum Company has begun building a 186-kilometer section of the Arab Gas Pipeline, part of a roughly 566-kilometer cross-border system, as Lebanon announced its own stretch to the Syrian border is ready to carry about 2 million cubic meters of gas a day.
Read More →Syria formally rejoined the Arab constituencies at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group on 1 November 2026, leaving the Russian-led bloc it had belonged to since 2012 and opening the way to resumed consultations and a reconstruction fund.
Read More →Syria's agriculture ministry approved about 211 million Syrian pounds in compensation for 8,289 farmers across seven governorates whose crops were destroyed by hail, spring frost and Euphrates flooding, lifting this year's disaster payouts to 10,030 farmers.
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Syria's finance minister and a senior International Finance Corporation official discussed a possible fund for startups, expanded financing for small and medium enterprises, and reform of state financial institutions, part of a push to attract private investment.
Read More →American lawmakers led by Senator Joe Wilson are urging the Commerce Department to remove Syria from the E:1 export-control list, saying the remaining curbs still block US investment months after Syria left the US terrorism blacklist.
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