The emirate’s largest sharia-compliant lender says it is entering a growth phase domestically and internationally.
Hong Kong has the priciest commercial upper-storey floor space in the world, according to a new index from Knight Frank.
Employees are increasingly seeking holistic workplaces, writes Jayde Walters, Human Resources manager, MENA at Acer.
Great strides have been made getting women into education, but more needs to be done at board level, says Grant Thornton managing partner.
A timeline of events in the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner which vanished from radar screens on Saturday.
The incident is likely to rekindle a debate about whether black box flight recorders should be replaced with satellite-based systems capable of sending back telemetry in real time.
The Gulf should pivot towards the East, writes the founder and president of Nasser Saidi & Associates.
The Fund’s traditional lending programs are meant for countries with an urgent crisis, and come with stringent conditions attached.
Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar last week.
Eros is planning to open five new stores in 2014, confirms CEO Deepak Babani.
Nadella is the recently appointed CEO of Microsoft.
More needs to be done to stamp out pay differences based on skin colour in the GCC, Robert Anderson.
The 2014 Gulf Business Salary Survey reveals the best-paid jobs in the Kingdom.
MENA is one of the fastest growing toy markets in the world says Sabri Al Kathiri, CEO of distributor Toy Triangle.
Dubai and Abu Dhabi feature among the top 10 global cities seeing a rise in luxury residential property prices, according to Knight Frank.
Singapore tops the list, while Jeddah and Riyadh feature among world’s cheapest cities.
The 2014 Gulf Business Salary Survey reveals the best-paid jobs in the UAE.
Steen Jakobsen, chief economist at Saxo Bank, believes Russia could be approaching recession unless reforms take place.
Most phone manufacturers unveiled new products at the event in Barcelona this year.
Insolvency reform in the UAE is vital for doing business, writes Peter Beynon, regional director, ICAEW Middle East.
Changes to the legal system are seen as crucial for wider social reforms aimed at reconciling Saudi Arabia’s ultra-conservative traditions with the demands of a young population.
Each country has until November to come up with its own supposedly “concrete” plans, but there is nothing to enforce their implementation.
Gulf Business speaks to Terrence Zwambila, managing director, 3M Gulf.
James McCallum, CEO & chairman of the LR Senergy Group, writes that the oil and gas sector needs more young talent from a selection of fields.
Mesaieed, a unit of state-owned Qatar Petroleum (QP), raised 3.2 billion riyals ($880 million) in an IPO of about 26 per cent of its shares.
At a glance, $19 billion seems an extortionate amount for a company that has little more than just 50 employees and is selling something that is almost free, writes Wael Abdulhadi, head of digital at Cheil MENA.
Regional loyalty marketing is slowly becoming more sophisticated, says the general manager of loyalty company ICLP.
Islamic finance has so far made only marginal progress in continental Europe.
What Facebook has not bargained for is that consumers are getting wary of putting out their content on larger social networks, writes Vidya S. Nath, director of digital media at Frost & Sullivan.
The region boasts talented and innovative youngsters, who wield considerable influence or could potentially do so in the future.