INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

Borouge okays $656m dividend

The company said dividend reflects its resilience

DEWA posts record H1 profit

Revenue reaches record $4.04 billion.

Tabreed H1 revenue $308m

Blurb: Profit reaches $52 million in H1

ADNOC L&S to expand fleet

It will acquire 11 carriers for $1.3bn.

Empower profit climbs 16%

Dubai district cooling demand lifts earnings
  • Dubai Chamber has announced that it will shift to a four-and-a-half day working week  from 3 January 2022. This is...

    The new working week is in line with the newly approved workweek for UAE federal government employees.

    The official working hours will be nine working hours per day Monday-Thursday, from 8am to 5pm, and four working hours on Friday, from 8am to 12pm.

  • Kuwait's leading Islamic bank, Warba Bank, celebrated the listing of the bank's $250 million perpetual Tier-1 Sukuk on Nasdaq Dubai...

    This was the third listing after a $250 million and a $500 million instrument in Mar 2017 and Oct 2019 respectively.

    The new listing brings the total outstanding value of the bank’s Sukuk on the exchange to $898 million.

  • The total number of tourists coming to the Kingdom in the period has surpassed 2.1 million, while the number of...

    The total number of tourists coming to the Kingdom in the period has surpassed 2.1 million, while the number of overnight tourists has inched up by 8.9 percent

    Jordanian Minister of Tourism Nayef Al-Fayez said that the National Tourism Strategy is geared to attract more tourists than recorded in 2019, before the outbreak of the pandemic

  • The airline will work with the Henan Province Airport Group.

    The virtual MoU was signed during the virtual Zhengzhou Week event at the China Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai

    It is said to contain plans for Etihad’s potential operation of regular cargo services between Abu Dhabi and Zhengzhou

  • The regulatory approval, the first in the Middle East and North Africa region, may push Binance to set up its...

    The regulatory approval, the first in the Middle East and North Africa region, may push Binance to set up its headquarters in Manama

    The second regulatory approval for Binance has come from Canada, which has approved a money services business license

  • The Saudi Central Bank "SAMA" has released a public consultation on rules for regulating the business of real estate refinance...

    The draft can be reached by visiting Public Consultation Platform affiliated with the National Competitiveness Center at https://istitlaa.ncc.gov.sa.

    SAMA has invited the public, specialists, and interested individuals to provide their views and observations on the rules within 30 days.

  • Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has announced that it will commence a Monday to Friday working week from 1 January...

    ADGM said the new working week brings Dubai's business community and financial sector closer to global markets and real-time economic and trading activities.

    More than 3700 entities are registered with the ADGM and it has a strong pipeline of growth, said the IFC in a statement.

  • Central Bank will acquire the Societe Generale Bank Jordan.

    The acquisition is said to be part of a drive to expand the Central Bank's foothold regionally and domestically

    Its chairman Bassem Al Salem said the bank would also issue $100 million in perpetual bonds to help drive growth

  • No Way Home has grossed $467.3 million in North America and $587 million internationally since its release earlier this month.

    Spider-Man has become the first billion-dollar-grossing film of the pandemic era

    The movie took an estimated $81.5 million in North America over the Christmas weekend

  • The Chinese real-estate firm has $300 billion in liabilities.

    In recent months, Evergrande has repeatedly said it will finish its unfinished projects and deliver them to buyers

    This, despite the company having missed a payment of more than $1.2 billion earlier this month