The London-based investment fund has backed online fashion site Namshi just one year after it launched.
Winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award, Innovator of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, Businesswoman of the Year, Special CSR Award and the overall Business Leader of the Year.
Gulf International Bank’s bond programme is 97.2 per cent owned by the Saudi government, giving a safer level of risk.
The winning companies of the year from banking, real estate, aviation, retail, media, energy, tourism, education and technology.
The winners from the Gulf Business Industry Awards 2012, a glittering showcase of the UAE’s finest business leaders, as voted by independent judges.
FGB has hired five banks for a new benchmark bond, according to sources.
The Eurozone debt crisis poses the biggest threat to the global economy, says IMF chief.
A consortium led by Saudi International Company for Water and Power (ACWA) won the major contract.
The Gulf state will help set-up a Franco-Qatari fund aimed at investing millions of Euros into depressed French suburbs.
Tonight’s awards will celebrate the UAE’s top performing business leaders and companies.
State-owned Jebel Ali Free Zone (JAFZA) attributed the fall in H1 profit to rising costs.
Proceeds from the issue will be used for repayment, said DEWA CEO, Saeed Mohammed al-Tayer.
Dubai’s flagship airline will begin two additional flights to the archipelago, taking its weekly number up to 13.
Experts from Emirates NBD, Falcon Private Bank, Lombard Odier, Bank Sarasin-Alpen Group and Julius Baer reveal their regional wealth management strategies to Gulf Business.
The country’s OPEC Governor Ali al-Yabhouni said that the UAE will work towards maintaining oil market stability.
CBK Capital is believed to have $53.5 million in capital and manages a Kuwaiti stocks fund and an Islamic finance fund.
Middle East investors are still seeking high-yielding investments, says Daniel Savary, head of Eastern Mediterranean & Middle East markets at Julius Baer
Rohit Walia, executive vice chairman & CEO at Bank Sarasin-Alpen Group, Middle East and India, says that the group will focus on tapping the Islamic finance industry in Saudi Arabia.
Swiss bank Lombard Odier is aggressively increasing its footprint in the Middle East, says its head of new markets, Arnaud Leclercq.
Switzerland has lost its appeal to Gulf investors, says Eduardo Leemann, CEO of Falcon Private Bank
Mark McFarland, chief investment strategist, Private Banking at Emirates NBD, says its time for wealth preservation.
The Asian City-state has signed a five-year extension deal on the same weekend it hosted its fifth F1 Grand Prix.
Property agents paid labourers to stand in line 48 hours before doors opened in bid to secure new prime location.
The investment bank is reducing staff in Dubai and relocating some jobs to Qatar, say sources.
Middle Eastern cities such as Cairo and Amman lead the increase in occupancy rates.
United Arab Emirates are once again able to buy weapons from the European country after a previous ban following re-exported grenades is lifted.
The country’s non-oil trade reached Dhs76.6 billion in February this year, according to official statistics.
The Mohammed al-Mojil Group say its losses exceed three-quarters of its capital and its liabilities exceed its assets.
The UAE network is eyeing up new ventures into core markets, funded by a $510 million sale of its Indonesian stakes.
State-owned Tawazun Holding will build guidance weapons in Abu Dhabi in a joint venture with South African defence company.