The Port Fund, a Kuwaiti investment firm specialising in logistics developments, is pressuring UAE authorities to help unfreeze close to $500 million of its assets which are currently sitting in a bank in Dubai.
Mena’s private equity (PE) market is in danger of losing the deal momentum it has gradually built up in the last decade following the financial crisis, according to a report from Fitch Solutions.
Bahrain-based alternative fund manager Investcorp has splashed out $311 million to add to its US multi-family property portfolio.
UAE-based Al Hilal Bank has made what it claims is the first sukuk transaction to be processed on the blockchain.
Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) has expanded its presence in China by opening an office in Shanghai. The official ceremony was conducted by Kuwait’s minister of finance and the KIA’s chairman of the board of directors Nayef Al-Harjaf.
Amid a fresh wave of American sanctions, Romil Patel spoke to Meysam Hamedi, director of financial markets and instruments at Iran’s Securities & Exchange Organization (SEO).
In 2016, global consulting firm PWC forecast the emergence of five global ‘megatrends’ in the next two decades. Stephen Anderson, its Middle East clients and markets leader, talks about their...
With the MENA region at a tipping point, our panellists talk about economic diversification, the impact of regulation and the delayed Saudi Aramco listing. Chaired by Romil Patel in Dubai.
Our cross-industry panel discuss the positive backdrop in Egypt, the Dana Gas controversy and the potential index upgrades of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Chaired by George Mitton in Dubai.
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ETF Report 2018