Middle East Business News

UAE Central Bank Removes 3% Early Settlement Fee For Mortgages

UAE banks can only charge borrowers a 1% early settlement fee or AED 10,000 Read more

Beehive Funds First SME In Bahrain

Mira Packaging Factory to use cash injection to expand and diversify product offering Read more

Russia Sovereign Fund Opens Saudi Office Ahead Of Vladimir Putin Visit

Russian Direct Investment Fund said it hoped to boost bilateral cooperation in economic and other spheres by setting up ... Read more

Fines For Bounced Cheques In Dubai Can Be Paid By Smartphone

Bounced cheques of up to AED200,000 represented 87% of cases settled by the Penal Order legislation between November 201... Read more

UAE Excise Tax On E-cigarettes, Sugary Drinks To Start On December 1

UAE's Federal Tax Authority called on producers and importers to register for the excise tax system at the earliest to a... Read more

Jassim Alseddiqi Named CEO Of Shuaa Capital Following ADFG Merger

The combined entity will exit non-core businesses to focus on becoming the leading asset management and investment banki... Read more

Top Level DIFC Delegation Completes Mission To Indian State

Dubai International Financial Centre chases more Indian FinTech businesses during trip to Maharashtra Read more

Dubai's Liv Says Customers Rush To Open Accounts To Win Private Island

Digital-only lifestyle bank by Emirates NBD reveals it has seen 44,000 new accounts opened since launch of competition t... Read more

UAE's Mubadala Says $19bn Spent On Expansion Plans In 2018

Abu Dhabi wealth fund says it invested in new areas such as medtech, pharma and agribusiness last year Read more

India's Largest Commercial Bank Cuts Interest Rates

State Bank of India's move may affect millions of Gulf-based non-resident Indians Read more

Abu Dhabi's ADCB Quarterly Profit Drops 11% On Cost Of Funds

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank combined with local rivals Union National Bank and Al Hilal Bank to create the Gulf region's f... Read more

DIFC Bucks Global Trend With Double-digit Growth In Companies

Malaysia's Maybank Islamic Berhad, Cantor Fitzgerald and Australia's Atlas Wealth Management were among the financial fi... Read more

Dubai's DSA Investments May Join Bid For Mines Once Owned By Guptas, Glencore

The venture would be between Orchid Mining, a unit of DSA, and Nehawu Investment Holdings Read more

UAE Islamic Banks See Slower Financial Growth

Fitch Ratings predicts asset-quality metrics for Islamic banks in the UAE will remain under pressure for 2019 Read more

KIPCO Raises Over $312 Million From Rights Issue

Issue saw a 17 percent oversubscription for 452,748,662 ordinary shares Read more