LORD NEIL BENJAMIN GIBSON COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF TRUST INVESTMENT BANK LIMITED

As of early November, Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson, via SFBBL AG, successfully completed a creative, limited merger with Trust Investment Bank Limited, a reputable, full banking institution with headquarters in Lahore, Pakistan. The transaction resulted in a 10% equity stake as part of the owner group, including a seat on the Board of Directors.

Trust Investment Bank Limited was the result of an international travel campaign to further and finalize a number of well-time business opportunities in Pakistan, specifically the areas of Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, having identified that part of the world as “emerging”, and finally ripe for investment and major development.

"Pakistan is completely misrepresented to the American and European population through media portrayals showing the area as undeveloped and antagonistic towards westerners,' Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson stated during a telephone interview from London.  "I personally can attest to the fact that the cities are completely cosmopolitan, the highways are modern and the citizens are in no way aggressive to westerners."  

Going back some months, Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson has openly stated on multiple occasions the growing strengths in the Pakistani financial markets, and that with the right infrastructure, Pakistan will most likely become one of the stronger countries for long term investments and healthy short term gains. The acquisition of Trust Investment Bank Limited further proves Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson’s commitment toward investing in Pakistan, gaining the attention of a number of watchful hedge funds and investment firms, and once again leading the way innovatively.

The partnership with the Trust Investment Bank, founded in 1992, expands the institution’s current 11 branches through the country, including a developing branch in Dubai. The bank is an institutional lending and speculative investment group comprised of more than 40 highly educated managers, offering loans from automotive to agricultural products. Trust Investment Bank’s portfolio strength lies in its diversity, making the institution healthy enough for expanding into new markets outside of Pakistan and into other Middle Eastern countries. Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson’s involvement reinforces that position and solidifies his faith in the Pakistani economy.

“The future is bright for Pakistan. I am extremely pleased to be a part of it and encourage others to look closely at what this great country has to offer,” concluded Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson.

Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson is an accomplished world humanitarian and businessman, presently working with SFBBL AG, a Swiss based company, along with the SEED Foundation, a registered 501(c)3. Collectively their efforts are to further the lives of impoverished communities through low cost, shipping container housing along with enhancing the local economy.

LORD NEIL BENJAMIN GIBSON’S OBSERVATION OF PAKISTAN’S ECONOMY

It’s of little surprise that many savvy investors and financial analysts are paying close attention to where Pakistan goes next in the world market. Despite a series of, what seemed to be endlessly, local environmental, communal and political turmoil, the county, regardless of population growth rate, has shown steady improvement.

This kind of upward economic consistency is what major super power, first world developed countries stay up late at night worrying and praying for. However, Pakistan seems to have accomplished such a feat, even in the midst of problematic decades the nation has had to face.

The World Bank in April earlier this year, 2014, commented the following.

“Inflation is steady at 7.9%. The fiscal deficit is contained at around six percent of GDP due to improved tax collection and restricted current and development expenditure. The current account deficit remains modest, at around one percent of GDP, supported by strong remittances and export dynamism, and the external position is slowly improving since monetary and exchange rate policies switched gear towards rebuilding reserves last November.

Economic activity is gradually improving says the report. Preliminary data for Fiscal Year 2014 (July 2013-June 2014) shows economic growth is picking up, driven mainly by services and manufacturing. Acceleration in growth of large-scale manufacturing came from strong performance of agro-based industries, iron and steel, construction, and external demand-driven cotton yarn- and fabrics-based textiles.”

To read the article from the World Bank in full.

http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/04/09/pakistan-dvelopment-update-economy-gradually-improving

Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson has been among the few that has identified the opportunities in Pakistan, and has been set in helping to further Pakistan. Among Lord Neil Gibson’s projects, the ISBU Housing Project remains one of the most important.

Lord Neil B. Gibson commented, “With the last few years natural disaster and political unrest tragedies, many people have become homeless and in dire need of housing. Pakistanis are hard working and intelligent people, but when they are struggling for shelter, not only for themselves but their families, productivity naturally is effected. Survival instincts kick in. It’s only natural that everything else becomes secondary. Give them housing, the basics to live, and watch how these people will contribute to their country and then the world.”

Lord Gibson and SFBBL AG through the SEED Foundation have been developing and preparing a Pakistan-specific housing project using discarded ISBU structures (storage container units) as an immediate, highly cost effective means to solve the overwhelming residential housing issues plaguing the nation.

“Shipping container homes are incredible durable and extraordinarily cost efficient by comparison to other, arguably traditional style housing. The time to build is dramatically less that other types of housing, and with architects and interior design technology what it has become today, shipping container homes are on par if not surpass the design of the home models,” concluded Neil Gibson.

“We are living in a time where thought and technology no longer lag behind one another, and the means to orchestrate change can be communicated in seconds.”