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Real estate trusts struggle despite strong Dubai market

Dubai’s resurgent property market has delivered riches to property owners and shareholders of leading developers like Emaar Properties, but investors in two listed Dubai real estate investment trusts – Emirates REIT and ENBD REIT – are nursing sustained losses. Both trusts are listed on Nasdaq Dubai. The emirate’s international bourse launched in 2005 with the […]

The group of UAE banks will increase financing for new innovations, ecosystem restoration and biodiversity preservation

UAE banks to increase green financing to $272bn

Major national banks in the UAE are to boost their green financing commitments, aiming to exceed a collective AED1 trillion ($272 billion), sources have told AGBI. The banks aim to accelerate financing in areas such as assisting businesses in transitioning to zero carbon emissions, particularly in harder to abate and small and medium-sized enterprise sectors.  […]

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DFM to launch pilot for trading carbon credits

Dubai Financial Market (DFM), the operator of the Dubai stock exchange, will launch a pilot programme for trading carbon credits during Cop28. The pilot programme for institutional investors starts from December 4 to 8, 2023, with the offsetting period ending on January 10, 2024, the UAE state-run Wam news agency reported.  The inaugural pilot will see […]

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UAE bank profits grow on greater lending and higher interest

The UAE’s top 10 banks expanded their combined net profits in the third quarter versus the previous three months thanks to growing demand for corporate and retail borrowing, improved lending margins and lower impairments. A report by consultants Alvarez & Marsal studied the country’s biggest homegrown lenders by assets including leading duo First Abu Dhabi […]

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Dubai’s investment arm almost doubles profits

Transport and finance have helped the Dubai government’s investment body almost double profits for the first half of the year. Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD) reported an 86 percent rise in first-half net profit on Thursday as earnings from its financial services and transportation divisions surged. ICD, which is the Dubai government’s main investment unit, […]

Dubai Taxi Company's offer price is expected to be announced on November 30

Dubai Taxi’s market value forecast at $1.25bn on listing

Dubai Taxi Company, a unit of the state-owned Roads and Transport Authority, has set the price range for its initial public offering (IPO) at AED1.80 to AED1.85 ($0.49 to $ 0.50) per share. This gives a market capitalisation of between AED4.5 billion and AED4.6 billion at the time of listing. The subscription period for retail […]

The Dubai government’s finance department owns all the shares offered in Dubai Taxi Company's IPO

Dubai Taxi Company to list 25% stake in IPO

Dubai Taxi Company has announced plans to launch its initial public offering (IPO) after its legal status was amended to a public joint-stock company. The company will issue 624.75 million shares at a nominal value of AED 0.04 on the Dubai Financial Market, representing 24.99 percent of its total issued share capital. The subscription period […]

The Dubai government’s finance department owns all the shares offered in Dubai Taxi Company's IPO

Dubai taxi operator to raise $300m in IPO next month

Dubai Taxi Corporation, a unit of the Road and Transport Authority (RTA), aims to raise nearly AED1.10 billion ($300 million) from a share sale in November, Bloomberg reports. The taxi operator intends to distribute a dividend of AED71 million in April for the fourth quarter of 2023, the news agency reported, citing an investor.  Dubai […]

UAE Swiss trade Julien Thiel, CEO of Deasyl (left) and Yousif bin Saeed Lootah, CEO of Lootah Biofuels Lootah Biofuels enters into a partnership with the Swiss Deasyl during ADIPEC

UAE-Swiss trade golden age adds technology to luxury

The trade relationship between the UAE and Switzerland is enjoying a golden era, with the European nation now the top non-oil destination for Emirati exports. Gold, jewellery and luxury watches traditionally dominated non-oil bilateral trade but innovation is growing in importance, according to Swiss Business Hub Middle East. It said that technology was increasingly important […]

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Investcorp Capital to list on Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange

Investcorp Capital has revealed plans to offer 643 million ordinary shares in an initial public offering on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange. The shares, which represent an estimated 29.34 percent of issued share capital after the IPO, will have a nominal value of $0.50 (AED1.84), according to a statement from the Bahrain-based alternative investment company. […]