Dubai

Middle East | 18 Mar 13

Standard Chartered Bank is to use Dubai as a hub to build on growing trade between emerging markets, with plans for more regional expansion in Africa and the Middle East, a top executive at the company has said.

Middle East | 11 Mar 13

Optimism regarding global economic growth prospects has increased in the last year among Gulf intermediaries, but the Eurozone crisis remains a major concern for global financial markets, according to a poll carried out in Dubai last month by Invesco Asset Management.

People Moves | 4 Mar 13

Brooklands Pensions, the UK- and Dubai-based pensions administrator, has promoted Bernie Saker to business development director and named Matt Tailford to the new post of business development manager for the Middle East.

Middle East | 10 Jan 13

The Dubai Government has launched an initiative to create an integrated Islamic economy across a wide range of regulated and standardized products and services.

Middle East | 1 Jan 13

The United Arab Emirates Central Bank plans to limit the size of residential real estate mortgages that expatriates living in the UAE may take out to 50% of the value of the property, according to Gulf media reports, which cite anonymous banking and real estate industry sources.