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...Staveley’s involvement underscores the trust she has built with al-Rumayyan since helping orchestrate the PIF’s £300mn acquisition of Newcastle United, a deal in which she also acquired a 10 per cent stake...
...Running on May 9-13, it costs from £4,700 per person; see holmenlofoten.no June Landmark Trust heads to Manchester Think of a holiday with the Landmark Trust — the charity that restores historic buildings...
...The house was owned via a Guernsey trust set up by the Royal Bank of Canada’s Channel Islands trust arm, Quendon said in court filings. RBC and Linklaters declined to comment....
...And so in the 1990s, a lot of Western banks and other companies, they chose Dubai as their base in the region....
...Last month, Premier Bank became the first Somali bank to establish a majority-owned banking subsidiary in neighbouring Kenya....
...Abu Dhabi Bank....
...In the first Gulf War, in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Eric MontalvoWhen I transitioned into the civilian community, I eventually started my firm in 2011. And I practice national and international law....
...Sheikh Jassim’s father, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, is one of the tiny Gulf state’s richest men....
...Prominent tech investors have flocked to the kingdom, sometimes with personal invites from Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s $620bn sovereign wealth fund....
...What else we’re reading The new Gulf sovereign wealth fund boom From Qatar and Saudi Arabia to the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf is increasingly viewed as one of the world’s last remaining sources of abundant...
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...Tabby Kinder is the FT’s west coast financial editor. George Hammond is the FT’s venture capital correspondent Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...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....
...The current lack of trust in the market has driven companies including Microsoft to pay people to find them credible offsetting projects, rather than rely on a stamp of approval from bodies such as Verra...
...a rare case of investor activism in the Gulf....
...He intervened to kill Keystone XL, which would have brought heavy Canadian oil to Gulf Coast refineries. The result was a disgruntled industry (and a disgruntled Ottawa)....
...He set up First Gulf Bank, which later merged with National Bank of Abu Dhabi to form First Abu Dhabi Bank, when he was just 23....
...Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the UAE’s foreign minister, and Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi “exchanged greetings” as they “inaugurated a phone link” between the countries on Sunday, the Gulf state’s...
...Now, Lebanon as the mythic phoenix from the ancient Phoenician coast always able to re-emerge from its ashes is looking crushed....
...(FT) News round-up US banks: trading places (FT Lex) US small business rescue fund runs out of cash (FT) Loeb slams Fed move into junk bonds (FT) Start-ups and larger companies set for extra UK bailout...
...The deflationary narrative of disruptive technology expounded by Brynjolfsson, McAfee et al runs deep....
...by the Gulf state and its prime minister....
...One City bank executive says: “They haven’t got the first clue.”...
...Speakers include Tony Blair, former UK prime minister; Al Gore, former US vice-president; Andrew Bailey, Bank of England governor; Kristalina Georgieva, IMF managing director; and FT editor Roula Khalaf....
...al), which improves SONG’s negotiating position. . . . . uh, great?...
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