Three times oversubscribed and priced 50 basis points tighter than initial guidance, a fresh $750 million bond from the UAE’s largest bank just broke a two-month drought in GCC debt capital markets. For investors tracking regional credit appetite, the signal is hard to ignore. Emirates NBD priced an Additional Tier 1 capital issuance at a … Read more
An Abu Dhabi-regulated crypto exchange just bought a Saudi financial media company, and the logic behind the deal says more about where digital asset adoption in the Gulf is heading than any trading volume chart. Rain Financial’s acquisition of Digital Ma’arefa is not a content play dressed up as strategy — it is a distribution … Read more
Nearly 700,000 attendees across four editions and $14.9 billion in announced deals from the last round alone — those are the numbers that turned a Riyadh tech conference into one of the most commercially significant gatherings on the global calendar. Now LEAP returns for its fifth edition, and the programme suggests the ambition has not … Read more
After 15 years steering the world’s most valuable company, the man who turned Apple into a $4 trillion machine is handing the keys to an engineer. For Gulf sovereign funds and MENA investors with heavy exposure to US mega-cap tech, this is not a routine boardroom shuffle — it is a signal about where Apple’s … Read more
Nine thousand completed homes across a single master-planned community is no longer a projection on a sales brochure — it is a physical reality taking shape across 24 million square feet of Sharjah. The latest milestone comes from Arada’s Il Teatro Residences, where 138 apartments have just been handed over, and I think the timing … Read more
A 260-billion-parameter AI model designed specifically for industries where a single compliance failure can cost millions — that is the bet G42-backed Domyn is now placing at the centre of enterprise AI in Europe and the Gulf. Domyn has launched Domyn Large, a reasoning model built for regulated sectors including banking, pharmaceuticals, government, and defence. … Read more
Five days, four multilateral forums, and a string of bilateral talks — that is what the UAE packed into a single week in Washington, signalling just how seriously Abu Dhabi treats its seat at every major table in global finance. During the Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, held … Read more
A single chokepoint just reminded global energy markets how fragile the supply chain really is. When Brent crude jumps nearly US$7 in a single session, the message from traders is unambiguous: the risk premium on Gulf crude is back. Oil prices climbed over 7% in early Monday trading after the closure of the Strait of … Read more
When a government minister rings the market-opening bell at Nasdaq Dubai to mark a fresh AED 1.1 billion Islamic Treasury Sukuk listing, it tells you something concrete about where the UAE’s capital markets ambitions stand right now. The gateway to raising capital in the Gulf has never had more lanes open at once. Across Abu … Read more
An undersea oil pipeline connecting two South Asian neighbours would redraw energy logistics across the Indian Ocean — and the conversation to build one just moved from concept to diplomatic agenda. For anyone tracking Gulf crude flows into Asia, this is a development worth watching closely. Indian Vice President C P Radhakrishnan and Sri Lankan … Read more
