While many financial institutions elsewhere were suffering or facing bankruptcy, Lebanese banks saw their deposits grow by 12% and their profits by 10% last year.rnThey owe this satisfactory state of affairsrnto the measures taken by Riad Salameh, the governor of Banque du Liban, the nation's central bank.rnFour years ago, he bucked international trends and defied pressure from the business community by ordering Lebanese banks not to invest in mortgage-backed securities. This move put Lebanon in a position to regain its status as the Middle East's preeminent banking and finance center, and its financial institutions have taken steps to secure that position. Banks have restructured, invested in new technologies, refined their markets and extended their horizons toward Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Kurdistan as well as the Gulf states.
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机译：黎巴嫩其他银行的许多金融机构正遭受破产之苦或面临破产之际，去年它们的存款却增长了12％，利润增长了10％。rn赖邦银行（Banque du Liban）省长里亚德·萨拉梅（Riad Salameh）采取的措施，使这种状况令人满意四年前，他命令黎巴嫩银行不要投资抵押贷款支持的证券，从而逆转了国际趋势，并克服了工商界的压力。这一举动使黎巴嫩能够重新获得其作为中东杰出的银行和金融中心的地位，其黎巴嫩的金融机构已采取步骤来确保这一地位。银行已经进行了重组，投资了新技术，完善了市场，并扩大了对叙利亚，伊拉克，土耳其和库尔德斯坦以及海湾国家的视野。
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