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...Al Natoor cited the case of UAE energy company Dana Gas’s $700m sukuk default in 2017, which also caused worries about enforceability among global sukuk investors....
...For decades, Dubai’s success has been built on its transformation from pearl-diving backwater into global entrepot with some of the world’s busiest ports and airports, as well as a financial centre that...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...This was meant to be the moment that SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son would confirm his investment genius to the world....
...They argue that it makes little sense to ban a non-strategic company such as Rusal while leaving Sberbank, VTB and Gazprom et al still tradeable in the US....
...In letters last week, the state’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) requested information about loans and other financial arrangements between the Kushners and Deutsche Bank, Signature Bank and New...
...However, New Zealand’s Overseas Investment Office has declined the Chinese airlines-to-financing conglomerate’s application after regulators were unable to verify who controlled HNA....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Alongside Snap, there is heightened interest in the potential listings of three Chinese tech groups: Ant Financial, the payments arm of Alibaba; Lufax, the online financial platform set up by insurer Ping...
...Amazonfresh v Ocado Brooke Masters has been comparing Amazon’s Fresh grocery delivery service, launched in the UK this week, with her regular home deliveries from Ocado. Fresh had one key flaw....
...Qatar’s largest projects are centred on connecting the country’s rail network to its neighbours ahead of the 2022 football World Cup....
...And this “managed” approach will still get China what it wants: recognition that the renminbi is a major global currency and that Chinese financial markets are of global significance This is all obviously...
...(New Yorker) If Apple were a country it would have grown more rapidly than the world economy over the past few years and would make up one one-thousandth of global output....
...Basically, another angry reflection of how important rising wages are to Abenomics’ success and how irritated Abe et al are at those big companies refusing to part with the extra yen Abenomics has brought...
...Mr al-Sayed earned a master's degree in banking and financial law from Boston University....
...Mr Ansari led Dubai International Capital, the private equity vehicle owned by Dubai’s ruler, through a high-profile boom into a huge bust during the global financial crisis....
...The Financial Times this week revealed that the UK’s Financial Services Authority and the Serious Fraud Office are looking into such allegations, adding yet another blow to Barclays’ attempts to repair its...
...The eurozone’s political tarantella may still be roiling global markets but some of the world’s savviest investors are already turning their attention elsewhere....
...“The region is overbanked and very competitive, so the ones that are best placed are the ones that can really offer the whole service.”...
...Either the sovereigns that matter will, after many years of austerity, restore solvency or there will be orderly restructuring of Italy, Spain et. al. in addition to Greece, Portugal and Ireland....
...The biggest innovation challenge for the US in relation to Asia is not financial but human....
...Financials were lower. JPMorgan pulled back 2.6 per cent to $38.54 and Morgan Stanley lost 3.6 per cent to $26.13....
...as well as the George V Hotel in Paris and the Fairmont Raffles....
...However, it is integrating the 2008 merger of Thomson Corporation and Reuters and may be wary of increasing its exposure to financial services, analysts have said....
...Today the top four prime brokers handle about 68 per cent of global hedge fund assets. That sounds concentrated....
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