As international financiers rush into Saudi Arabia, they are asking if the Kingdom can deliver on its grand promises.

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Sulaiman Abdel-Aziz al-Rajhi, the Saudi money changer, is conservative, pious and modest. The firm he founded is worth a far-from-modest $7 billion. How he prospered. By Michael Field