Abu Dhabi: Potential Growth
(Oxford Business Group - 27/10/2009)
Although the insurance industry in Abu Dhabi has felt the effects of the global economy, downturns in regional equity markets and a slump in construction activity, it still presents opportunities for growth.
Over the last six years, Abu Dhabi...
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Kuwait: Maximising Efficiency
(Oxford Business Group - 27/10/2009)
Kuwait appears to be sharpening its industrial focus, looking to build on its existing strengths while reinforcing existing high-profit revenue earners.
Although Kuwait has sought to diversify its economy away from a dependency on oil product...
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Bahrain: Growth at a Premium
(Oxford Business Group - 27/10/2009)
Already a force to be reckoned with, Bahrains insurance industry looks set for a period of sustained growth in the future, having apparently seen off the worst of the international economic crisis.
There are some 160 insurance companies and o...
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Qatar: Riding the Crest of the ICT Wave
(Oxford Business Group - 27/10/2009)
Qatar is planning to improve further its information and communications technology (ICT) services through a public access government portal, while encouraging the wider use of advanced technological applications by the public in their dealings with the s...
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RAK: In With the New
(Oxford Business Group - 27/10/2009)
This years Cityscape - the annual gathering of leading real estate figures in the UAE and beyond - seemed to attract an inordinate amount of attention from the international media, largely because the turbulent path of Dubais real estate market has becom...
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Surplus on global gas markets may reach 15%
(Press Release - Booz & Company - 26/10/2009)
The economic downturn has the potential to profoundly change global gas markets. Deeply negative forecasts for industrial output in developed countries will reduce world-wide demand for natural gas in 2009 and 2010 - the first time in history; while pote...
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KPC: What happened to our diesel?
(Kamel Al-Harami - Al Watan - 26/10/2009)
Since MEEDs (Middle East Economic Digest) oil survey in May 2007 and KPC (Kuwait Petroleum Corporation) and the oil corporations are moving from oil crisis to another. The latest being the smuggling of diesel oil and selling it more than 20 times from it...
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Time to change perception
(Mushtak Parker - Arab News - 26/10/2009)
Islamic banking is the most accelerating business in the world and is becoming more and more important with Shariah-compliant products now being very popular in the Arab World, said two bank governors from Libya and Jordan.
The comments were m...
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IFC lists $100m sukuk in Dubai
(Uta Harnischfeger - The National - 24/10/2009)
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the world’s largest investment bank for development, will list a US$100 million (Dh367.2m) Islamic bond in Dubai and Bahrain, in the first such listing by a non-Islamic multilateral organisation.
Ni...
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Dubai borrowers find welcome abroad
(Wayne Arnold - The National - 24/10/2009)
Officials from Dubai travelling this week for meetings with international investors are trying to play down the risk of lending to the emirate. Analysts and bankers say risk may be just what investors are now in the mood for.
The Dubai Departm...
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