Last monsoon, in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra, a dairy farmer named Ramesh Jadhav watched his Primary Agricultural Credit Society (PACS) chairman approve a ₹14 lakh fertiliser contract with his own brother-in-law’s supply firm. Fourteen members knew it was wrong. Not one knew what to do about it. I’ve heard versions of this story from Rajasthan … Read more
Five years of progress that was supposed to take fifteen — that’s the timeline compression the new chairman of the Arab Federation of Capital Markets says has already reshaped the region’s exchanges. Now the question is whether that momentum can be extended beyond a handful of dominant markets to the broader Arab world. Abdulla Salem … 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
