About ABL

Communication and PR

Communication and PR
On the media level, the Association sees to strengthen communications and relationships with officials responsible for economic issues in various Lebanese mass medias, thus providing an ongoing and overall coverage of the Association’s activities and the publishing of the Association’s positions. The Association publishes a monthly bulletin distributed within Lebanon and the Almanac of Banks in Lebanon which is updated annually. The Directorate of studies and statistics prepare a monthly periodical in English (The Economic Letter), which comprises a concise presentation for the development of the most important sectors in the Lebanese economy, with statistical tables, distributed over a number of banks, institutions, personalities and establishments in Lebanon and abroad, the Key Indicators are also prepared on monthly basis; the evolution of the portfolio of Treasury Bills in LBP and foreign currencies is also developed and the Annual Report. The Association publishes the annual training and rehabilitation program and the series of “The Assocation’s files” which comprises research and studies for financial and banking affairs.
As for documentation and the internal library, the Association has a databank and a media archive whose contents go back to 1990, in addition to a public library, which is rich in specialized publications and periodicals in three languages (Arabic, French and English). Therefore, the Association can put at the disposal of the banking cadres and specialized researchers a sufficient series of documents and references which may be useful to them.

The Association continues to update the contents of its website (www.abl.org.lb). The websurfer can then have the possibility to read, in three languages (Arabic, French, and English), the Members’ guide , the structure of the Association and its Secretariat General, the structure, management and commissions of the Council. S/He also has the possibility to access various services it provides, activities it organizes, and publications it publishes, in addition to the text of the collective labor agreement which governs the professional relationship between the banks’ administrations and their employees.