11+ hour, 22+ min ago   (215+ words) Kapur’s read? Years of Golden Visa-driven inflows, a maturing product shelf, and a regulatory framework built around long-term wealth holders cannot easily be “reversed,” Kapur says. Other established wealth hubs like Singapore, London, and Zurich have all weathered turbulence in…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (127+ words) What the decisions do not address is the technical plumbing — no maximum reporting latency, no required format or validation rules, no clarity on how outages or failed transmissions will be handled, and still no specification for how an approved-but-undrawn facility…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (247+ words) The government is moving to halt new external borrowing for transport projects unless the Cabinet’s Public Debt Committee signs off first. The step is meant to curb the sector’s mounting financing obligations and ease the public-debt burden, a government official…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (190+ words) Approvals for Azimut, Menthum ALSO- The FRA cleared Ashal for Digital Finance to offer microfinance through fintech platforms, and gave MNZL a final license to offer consumer and mortgage finance via fintech. Catching the phosphate rush ALSO- Phosphate Misr has…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (292+ words) Another global manager lands in DIFC BACKGROUND- Mirae joins a steady stream of global managers setting up in the hub to get closer to regional capital, just days after French asset manager Carmignac opened its first Middle East office there....

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (145+ words) SOUND SMART- The two are routinely confused. PCH is entirely state-run and subsidizes loans written by commercial banks. BDH is a bank in its own right, 80% owned by private banks and insurers and 20% by the state. Gulf money is still…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (383+ words) UAE-listed companies had a strong 2Q despite the knock-on effects of the war, with combined net income across Abu Dhabi and Dubai jumping 28.6% y-o-y to USD 21.6 bn, according to Kamco Invest’s latest corporate earnings report (pdf). Abu Dhabi did most of…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (606+ words) Abu Dhabi’s balance sheet is pointed in three directions this morning — Indian mid-caps, US AI infrastructure, and an Egyptian port operator that could end up with almost nothing trading. G42 is the exception: There, the open question is who ends up…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (282+ words) Fitch Ratings affirmed Qatar’s sovereign rating at AA and removed it from Rating Watch Negative, citing reduced risk to LNG facilities since the March attack on Ras Laffan. The outlook remains negative as “the impact of the war on the…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (646+ words) Good morning, friends. Today’s issue is all about how the country is ramping up its industrial capacity, with two stories following the same thread — one about cutting what we import, the other about making more at home. Up first, the…...