ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, invited more than 500 local and international suppliers, to a major conference in Abu Dhabi aimed at transforming the traditional buyer and supplier relationship. Hosted by the company’s Procurement and Supply Management team, the theme of the event was ‘Transformation’. The mandate set for …

  Dubai / Emirates Business Investbridge Capital — an independent alternative asset management and advisory firm based in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) covering emerging growth markets — has announced that it arranged and advised on a cross-border US$25 million (AED 92 million) convertible loan by the International Financial Corporation (IFC) to Carbon Holdings. The latter is an Egyptian …

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has issued a directive ordering major operators Etisalat and du to put a ceiling, or hard cap, on their respective mobile data bundles in a bid to protect consumers from unwittingly incurring disproportionately higher additional charges. Directive (1) of 2016 applies to all mobile data bundles whether included as part …