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DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) imposed financial penalties of $299,300,000 and $15,275,925 (AED56,062,645) on Abraaj Investment Management Limited (AIML) and Abraaj Capital Limited (ACLD) respectively. In a press statement, DFSA said that the investigation, which began in January 2018, was complex and spanned multiple jurisdictions. Bryan Stirewalt, Chief Executive of the DFSA, said, “The size of ...

Bloomberg The pound slumped for a fourth day as investor concerns over a no-deal Brexit intensified. Sterling continued its slide versus both the dollar and the euro, with investors pricing a higher chance of the UK crashing out of the European Union on October 31. As differences between the two sides increase, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said the UK ...

SHARJAH / WAM Air Arabia, the Sharjah-based low-cost carrier (LCC) has received its second Airbus A321neo Long Range. The aircraft flew nonstop from Hamburg, Germany to Sharjah International Airport. The addition of the second A321neo LR will enable Air Arabia to expand to new medium-haul markets in addition to strengthening its existing routes, the company said. The A321 neo LR ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump’s assault on the World Trade Organization — and the global system of rules that guide inte- rnational businesses — may be quietly scoring a major victory. Thanks to a US veto on new appeals judges, the WTO’s dispute arm is expected to start slipping into the institutional equivalent of a coma at the end of ...

KUALA LUMPUR / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, met on Tuesday with Mohamed Azmin Ali, Malaysia’s Minister of Economic Affairs. The two sides discussed bilateral ties between the two countries, and means to enhance them across multiple sectors, particularly in the trade ...

ABU DHABI / WAM A specialised fund launched by the Department of Culture and Tourism — Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) worth AED600 million, has been announced as part of an initiative to enhance Abu Dhabi’s portfolio of world-class leisure and business events and attract global event organisers to the UAE capital. The new financial stimulus announced by DCT Abu ...

ABU DHABI / WAM A total of 562,589 people have benefitted from local aid campaigns and programmes launched by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) between January and June 2019, with the total value of the programmes reaching AED94 million for the period. The cost of social aid provided by the ERC amounted to AED71,108,670 while the value of seasonal projects ...

Emirates Business The Dennemeyer Group marked 57 years of experience and success in the provision of international services in the field of intellectual property, such as the payment of annual fees for patents, the renewal of trademarks, filing of Recordals, the strategic consultancy in the field of IP, and advanced software solutions for the effective management of intellectual property as ...

SHARJAH / WAM Bee’ah, the sustainability pioneer of the Middle East, has launched a new project to enhance waste segregation and recycling practices to supplement the efforts of the company’s ongoing residential recycling programme. In 2012, Bee’ah had launched the UAE’s first door-to-door residential recycling program-me, which supplied communities with awareness kits on recycling. The new programme takes this initiative ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business The higher end of Dubai’s real estate market is rather resilient. The luxury property sales market in Dubai has seen an uptick in the volume of transactions from January to June 2019, compared to the same period last year, according to Data Finder, a real estate insights and data platform under the Property Finder Group. Any ...