INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

EasyLease H1 profit $12.2m

Revenue rises on stronger operations.

FAB profit edges higher

Income growth supports steady earnings.

UAB H1 profit climbs

Income, lending drive first-half growth

Sanad posts record revenue

Growth driven by global demand for services.

Bank of Sharjah profit up 39%

Bank's total assets grow 10% to $14.4 billion.
  • Lebanon, a country of around 6 million people, is grappling with an unprecedented financial crisis that the World Bank says...

    Lebanon, in the throes of a brutal economic crisis, is no longer just a launchpad for Syrian refugees and other foreign migrants

    Its own desperate citizens now also risk drowning in the Mediterranean in their quest for a better life

  • The IMF's warning that developing nations are about to face what it called “economic turbulence” is bad news for the...

    GCC countries are depending on emerging nations to diversify their own economies

    With those economies now under a cloud, the GCC nations should choose their next steps carefully

  • The UAE Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratization (MoHRE) called on private sector establishments to commit to timely paying the...

    Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratization asks employers to register and document any agreement with their workers regarding the change of wages through the approved system.

    The UAE has been the pioneer in launching the WPS, which, since its implementation in 2009, has been praised by the International Labor Organization.

  • Suriname, Tanzania, and Senegal have explored investment and other opportunities to collaborate with the stakeholders from across the region and...

    Suriname is a country on the north-eastern Atlantic coast of South America, the most forested country of the world with 28 hectares of forest per capita.

    CEO Clubs Network organized an event dedicated to tourism opportunities in Tanzania.

  • The number of Saudi nationals who got jobs in the private sector crossed 1.9 million in 2021, the highest number...

    The number of Saudi nationals who got jobs in the private sector crossed 1.9 million last year, says the ministry

    The drive has also helped in creating an attractive and stimulating work environment for Saudi nationals in private sector

  • Dubai Chambers has been established as a new entity, replacing the Dubai Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and Juma Al...

    One of the decrees establishes the Board of Directors for Dubai Chambers and appoints Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair as its Chairman.

    As per the new legislation, Dubai Chambers' main responsibility is to develop plans and policies to enhance the emirate's global status as an economic hub.

  • Chemical industries topped Egypt’s plasticware exports in 2021 with a total value of $2.7 billion compared to $1.4 billion posted...

    Chemical industries topped Egypt’s plasticware exports in 2021 with a total value of $2.7 billion compared to $1.4 billion posted in 2020

    In 2021, the Egyptian exports recorded their highest growth of $31 billion despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic

  • While the likes of Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Jordan depend heavily on tourism for revenue, the UAE and Saudi Arabia...

    UNWTO Executive Director Zoritsa Urosevic has said that the ‘future is bright’ for the tourism sector

    Tourists ‘will come back’ and the industry will recover from the pandemic because it is ‘very resilient,’ she said

  • The officials from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain, as well as secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)...

    The officials from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain, as well as secretary general of the GCC Nayef bin Falah al-Hajrah, will be in China until Friday

    Recent unrest in oil and gas-rich Kazakhstan has raised concerns in China, which has long invested heavily in its central Asian neighbour's energy industry

  • Emerging economies should gird for possible rough times as the US Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates and world...

    "Risks to growth remain elevated by the stubbornly resurgent pandemic," IMF economists Stephan Danninger, Kenneth Kang and Helene Poirson wrote in a blog post

    The highly contagious Omicron strain has spread like wildfire around the world since mid-December, causing record numbers of new Covid cases