05/20/2018
Only 32% of UAE residents would recommend their bank, survey shows
Data from Souqalmal.com found that personal loans and credit cards are the most searched for financial products
Research, Comment and Analysis
05/17/2018
Revealed: The world's largest banks by assets
This is up $1.727 trillion since last year’s ranking, with half of this growth due to a strengthening yuan against the US dollar.
05/17/2018
DIFC’s Governor & China’s Vice Minister of Commerce Hold Talks On Future Collaboration
Meeting focused on DIFC-China longstanding relationship and enhancing collaboration
05/16/2018
UAE ‘as competitive’ for international wealth as the US
Deloitte compares the centres based on business environment, provider capability, stability, and tax and regulation.
05/16/2018
March remittances drop 9.8% in March amid repatriation
The countries that registered the biggest declines in cash remittances were Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and the United States.
05/16/2018
MENA energy needs set to grow at 6.4%: Apicorp
Apicorp’s report also finds that the renewable energy drive in the region is led by the UAE, Morocco, and Jordan
05/16/2018
The Wealth-X Billionaire Census 2018
The report attributes this significant increase in wealth to a synchronized upturn in the world economy and climbing equity markets.
05/16/2018
As Digitization Raises the Stakes, Investment Banks Must Raise Their Games
Despite Recent Revenue Uptick, Continuing Migration to Digital Services and Business Models Is Pressuring Banks to Be More Client Centric, Attract Fresh Talent, and Become More Agile, Says Report by The Boston Consulting Group
05/15/2018
Opportunities in a complicated world by Gary Dugan
OPEC meets again next month in Vienna.
05/14/2018
The Deloitte International Wealth Management Centre Ranking 2018
The winding road to future value creation
05/14/2018
5 Saudi Women in Top Financial Positions
Rania Mahmoud Nashar is now the chief executive of Samba Financial Group.
05/11/2018
The GCC’s first Gateway Gulf Investor Forum kicks off, here’s what went down
HRH the Deputy King highlighted the regional opportunities available to investors, including the plethora of projects to be showcased during the forum, noting that these opportunities reflect Bahrain’s wider strategy to increase the role of the priv
05/11/2018
Remittances of expats in Kuwait fall
If this bill is passed, Kuwait will be the first GCC country to levy the remittances of nearly 2.17 million expatriates in Kuwait.
05/11/2018
Why switch your offshore company to the UAE?
Let’s take a look at some of those key markers.
05/10/2018
Revealed: Top Indian business leaders in Arab world
These expats, some of them self-made billionaires, recognised for their 'phenomenal success'
05/10/2018
Moody’s launches operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is also a key market for Islamic Finance, an area in which Moody's is recognised as a global thought leader through ratings, research and speaking engagements at leading conferences and events globally
05/09/2018
Lower confidence of job security and chances of pay rises, say UAE residents as cost of living increases bite back
According to sentiment tracker, 43 per cent feel less confident about their financial health than they did a year ago
05/09/2018
The World’s Billionaires Under 30
The majority of these young billionaires under 30 have inherited wealth from their families.
05/08/2018
Boursa Kuwait hosts 3rd Investor Relations workshop in collaboration with MEIRA
Boursa Kuwait vision is to develop a liquid, reliable and sound capital market providing issuers with efficient access to capital, and investors with diverse return opportunities, evolving into a leading regional exchange.
05/04/2018
SAGIA aims to get Kingdom in top 20 for ease of doing business by 2020
But he said that there was a “great interest” among international investors to get more involved in business in the Kingdom and reforms were being pushed through fast.