After the 2008 financial crisis, many attributed the crisis due to the inability of financial risks to manage operational risks. The period during and after 2008 was critical in providing insight on how vital operational risk management is essential to financial institutions and how best these risks can be managed. The study begins with an overview of the concept of risk and BASEL I, II and III and how they apply to financial institutions. Further, the paper discusses the growing need for operational risk management in the context of financial institutions taking into considerations various models and approaches used in the management of financial risks. Moreover, several pieces of literature discussed operational risks in the financial institutions. The paper also looks at the various methods of operational risk identification and management before concluding that for better management of operational risks in banks, there is the need to comply with both the national and international regulations and procedures.

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Qatar is one of richest country in terms of per capita (PC) in the top ten world richest countries. The highest level of growth rate in per capita is attributed to the growth rate in population and energy production. However, There is consensus that growth rate negative affect environment especially growth of population and energy consumption. Furthermore due to Qatar national plan to diversify the economy and reduces reliance on the oil, depletion of oil reservoir in the country and market volatility in the price of petroleum products, there is need to conducted the empirical research to checked the effect of tourism development, energy consumption and urbanization on sustainable development in Qatar. After gathering time series data from the period of 1995 to 2019 and conducting preliminary tests, the study found there is negative and significant effects of energy consumption, urbanization on sustainable development and positive and significant effect of tourism development on the sustainable development. Therefore, it is recommended to plan that project which are environmentally sustainable. Secondly, energy and sustainable nexus shows that energy consumption is detrimental to sustainable development; therefore, fossil fuel energy consumption project should be replaces with energy efficient and environmental friendly projects. Lastly the rate urbanization should be properly managed which could reduce the negative environmental degradation.

This study intends to confirm whether the banks in Yemen adhere to international laws and procedures on anti-money laundering. We used primary data and descriptive analytical methods. The research encompasses 11 banks located in the Yemeni capital of "Sana"a" . The total number of branches used as study sample is 60. The analysis reveals that most Yemeni banks adhere to international laws and regulations on anti-money laundering. We recommend conducting further studies on the topic including its effect on financial results, the influence of the technological system, further controls needed in the country.

This study aims to investigate the impact of the stock market trade openness and financial development on sustainable development in Kuwait. The study employed quarterly time series for analysis and from 1993-2018, and selected variables are Sustainable development, Stock market, financial development, and trade openness. Sustainable development is treated as a dependent variable, while the others are independent variables. It is concluded that a long run association among the stock market, financial development, trade and sustainable development exists. Autoregressive distributed lagged (ARDL) model is applied for long run and short run estimates. In long run stock market, trade openness and financial development are positive and significant factors of sustainable development, while in the short run, stock market is significant negative contributor to sustainable development. It is therefore recommended that efforts should be made to encourage the investor so that the stock market should grow in future. Similarly, efforts should be made to boost the financial and trade sector should that the country could grow economically, socially and environmentally.