INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

Samsung biggest chip investor

The tech giant invested nearly $59.2bn in 2025.

flynas to set up new hub

Five destinations in first phase of operations.

AD Ports Group acquires CLI

CLI is Brazilian agri-bulk terminal operator.

$1.59bn Makkah project awarded

A consortium will develop two districts in the Holy City.

2PointZero posts profit surge

Growth driven by merger consolidation.
  • Last few years have seen a lot of tension between governments and central banks around the world, on the one...

    Concerns are rising that these currencies could be used to fund illegal actions and for money laundering.

    Several countries have taken strict measures to crack down on the industry that is viewed with suspicion uniformly across the world.

  • Supply-side issues such as semiconductor scarcity and port backlogs may strain supply chains and weigh on trade in particular areas,...

    The forecast projects export volume growth in 2021 will be 9.3% in the Middle East

    The current trade projections, according to the forecast, imply that the ratio of trade growth to GDP growth will rise to 2.0:1 in 2021

  • Users of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp across the world, including the Gulf countries, remained heavily affected for hours.

    The outage was first reported at around 1545 GMT or 7.45pm UAE time

    Washington, Paris, Dubai and Delhi were few major cities that remained affected

  • The world's airlines made a joint pledge Monday to reach "net zero" CO2 by 2050, as the aviation industry ramps...

    "The important decision that we must make today will secure the freedom to fly for future generations"

    IATA represents 290 member airlines comprising 82 percent of pre-pandemic global air traffic

  • The DMCC welcomed around 1,800 companies to Dubai from Q1 to Q3 this year.

    DMCC last month welcomed 215 new businesses to its free zone and business district in the best September performance since inception

    This year also saw its best H1 performance since 2013; its best June and August performances on record are also from this year

  • Alturki Holding oil arm, the Saudi Sawafi company, has bought out Newsco, the US drilling services company, for an undisclosed...

    Newsco is one of the most important directional drilling companies in the petroleum industry in the world

    Sawafi, the global leader in upstream technologies, will now control about 9 patents in directional drilling

  • The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates has penalized six exchange houses for flouting rules to combat money laundering...

    The sanctions imposed last month followed the exchange houses’ failures to comply with AML & Sanctions Compliance Frameworks by end-2019

    The UAE has in recent months beefed up regulations targeted at banks and financial institutions to combat and prevent money laundering

  • Home buyers in the Middle East are looking to settle in rural areas and possess bigger homes than they have...

    Around 57 percent of respondents in the region said they would be most likely to buy a villa

    Half of the respondents cited the energy efficiency of their home being a “very important” issue

  • Talaat Moustafa Group, the Egyptian real estate company, is looking to expand into Saudi Arabia and Iraq to take advantage...

    TMG has formed a committee to study investment opportunities in Saudi Arabia and Iraq

    The company recently proposed the Nour City project, east of the capital Cairo

  • Sales soared between June 2020 and June 2021 as auctioneers quickly adopted a more online approach.

    NFTs, or "non-fungible tokens", allow people to buy the rights to online art, including images, animation or even tweets.

    In March, US artist Beeple sold an NFT of his digital artwork "Everydays: The First 5,000 Days" for $69.3 million.