{"id":3291,"date":"2018-10-16T10:50:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T10:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/hsbc-google-and-credit-suisse-pull-out-of-saudi-conference\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T10:50:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T10:50:26","slug":"hsbc-google-and-credit-suisse-pull-out-of-saudi-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/hsbc-google-and-credit-suisse-pull-out-of-saudi-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"HSBC, Google and Credit Suisse pull out of Saudi conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Riyadh skyline\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/8FC8\/production\/_103880863_riyadhbbc.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The chief executives of HSBC, Google and Credit Suisse have become the latest people to pull out of a business conference in Saudi Arabia next week.<\/p>\n<p>HSBC&#8217;s John Flint, Google&#8217;s Diane Greene and Credit Suisse&#8217;s Tidjane Thiam will not now go to next week&#8217;s event, dubbed &#8220;Davos in the Desert&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>JP Morgan chief executive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45859719\" class=\"story-body__link\">Jamie Dimon said on Monday he would not attend.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It follows tensions between the US and Saudi Arabia over Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi&#8217;s disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>Ford chairman Bill Ford and Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi are among others not attending the Riyadh event.<\/p>\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" class=\"bbccom_slot mpu-ad\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<\/div>\n<p>A page with a list of confirmed speakers has been deleted from the website for the conference, which runs from 23 to 25 October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-45853598\" class=\"story-body__link\">Britain and the US are also considering boycotting the event,<\/a> while others distancing themselves include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45833910\" class=\"story-body__link\">Sir Richard Branson, who has halted talks over a $1bn Saudi investment in Virgin space firms.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45876239\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief executives of HSBC, Google and Credit Suisse have become the latest people to pull out of a business conference in Saudi Arabia next week. HSBC&#8217;s John Flint, Google&#8217;s Diane Greene and Credit Suisse&#8217;s Tidjane Thiam will not now go to next week&#8217;s event, dubbed &#8220;Davos in the Desert&#8221;. JP Morgan chief executive Jamie &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}