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Offa, the UK’s first Shari’ah-compliant bridge finance fintech, has today launched an innovative new buy-to-let finance (BTL) service.

Quick Buy-to-Let Islamic Finance for British Expats Model Launched

Modern, paperless service disrupts traditional British Islamic finance. Attractive investment proposition for UAE-based Britons, family offices or other investors with a preference for bricks and...

Gold Prices Sensitive to Interest Rates

Gold prices remained steady in the early trading hours on Monday as the dollar eased and Asian stocks firmed, with the metal holding near...

Crypto in Restaurant Dining

One of the biggest challenges with Crypto is the inability to use it in our daily lives. All that is about to change, especially...

Bitcoin Price Will Be “Permanently Hiked” By Institutional Investors

A Bitcoin price drop will trigger a surge in institutional investment, driving up the price permanently. The observation from Nigel Green, chief executive and founder...

UAE Central Bank to introduce the Direct Debit System

The Central Bank of UAE has announced the introduction of the ‘Direct Debit System' in the UAE with effect from 15th June 2013, according...

Credit Suisse downgrads Dubai Financial Market

Credit Suisse has downgraded Dubai Financial Market’s rating to Neutral from Outperform while slashing its target price to from Dh2.20 to Dh1.40,...

Emaar’s new US$ 1 billion financing facility – Testament to financial...

Emaar Properties PJSC has signed a new Islamic and Conventional financing facility amounting to AED 3.6 billion (approx. US$ 1 billion) with Dubai Islamic Bank PJSC, National Bank of Abu Dhabi and Standard Chartered Bank as Mandated Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners.

Goldman Sachs cuts recommendation on global equities to ‘neutral’

Goldman Sachs has grown cautious on global equities in the near term. Last week, the investment bank cut its recommendation on equities investments to...

Development in Global Markets to Weigh on Regional Equities

Global equity markets were broadly positive during the week, but the news flow was mixed with encouraging vaccines developments compared to renewed restrictions to...

Bulgaria debuts at Global Investment Forum in Dubai

Bulgaria took part for the first time in one of the largest global forums focused on foreign investments and emerging markets in Dubai and...

Middle East investment banking fees up 22%

Thomson Reuters released its investment banking analysis for the Middle East region for the first nine months of 2013.

Frontier Markets Critical for Diversification, Research

Latest research with institutional investors and wealth managers across Europe who collectively manage over $520 billion in assets under management, identifies frontier markets as...

Investors Concerned about Overvaluation in Equity, Bond Markets

Investors see growing overvaluations in equities and bonds and have signaled concern about a valuation bubble forming, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund...

Ministry of Finance meets training centres for employee development

Ministry of Finance held annual meeting with a number of development and training centres, to better familiarize itself with different training partners

Financing still a top challenge for UAE SMEs in 2015

Top sources of funds for SMEs include family and friends, private funding, as well as savings and credit cards A new MEED survey of SMEs...

Gold Prices Trending Higher

Last Friday, gold futures advanced for a third-straight session in a row to end up nearly 2% for the week. Prices for the yellow metal...

The World’s Biggest Gold Mines

The economic carnage brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic has led to investors hedging against the ongoing volatility and that has driven the price...
Ethereum was a major growth driver, gaining 1.6% on the day to $2,350 and reversing to the downside as it approached $2,400.

Ethereum Nears Recent Turning Point

The crypto market cap remained at $1.65 trillion.   Ethereum was a major growth driver, gaining 1.6% on the day to $2,350 and reversing to the...