Deutsche Bank named “Best Flow House in the Middle East" and "Best Equity House in the UAE"
Deutsche Bank has been awarded “Best Flow House in the Middle East" and "Best Equity House in the UAE" in…
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Qatar's Barwa eyes expansion in US, UK, Turkey
Barwa Group, Qatar’s largest real estate company, is to expand outside the Gulf state and is exploring potential projects…
Qatar First Bank 2012 income hits QR113.2m
Qatar First Bank’s net income increased to QR113.2m ($31.1m) for year ended December 31, 2012, up 21 percent compared…
Beyond Convention report sheds light on wealth
The Report found that wealthy families in the Middle East have a strong entrepreneurial spirit, want to play an…
Economist calls for a new global currency
The economist calls for a new international ‘cocktail or basket of major world currencies’ Amman: Robert Mundell, an economist and…
Turkey builds up new Islamic finance tools
As Turkey seeks to boost political and commercial ties with the Gulf and diversify its borrowing, one of the…
Gulf issuers warm to cross-border sukuks
The Islamic finance industry is centred in the Middle East and southeast Asia, but for the most part those…
UAE asset managers shun soft commission
The payment of so-called ‘soft commission’ to advisers in the United Arab Emirates by some asset management companies is causing…
Expats accounted for 94% of Qatar's labour force in 2012
Expatriates accounted for 94% of the country's total labour force of 1.3mn in 2012, shows a new report. This,…
Top wealth owners prefer to invest in the Mideast
The Middle East, whose wealth is estimated to be in excess of $4.5tn with about 35 billionaires, is the…
Can Turkey rival M'sia as world's top sukuk issuer?
When Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan came to power a decade ago it would have been almost unthinkable for…
Swiss private bank Plans Hunt for African Rich With Wealth Management Expansion
UBS, the Swiss bank seeking to boost profit from wealth-management, said it plans to expand in Africa as economic growth…