ABU DHABI / WAM Masdar City has been named “Best Free Zone for Start Up Support” by the Financial Times and has collected three other prestigious global awards. The Global Free Zone of the Year Awards, hosted by the FT’s fDi Magazine, are among the most high-profile awards in the free zone sector, with approximately 65 free zones entering this ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Agility, UPAC, and NREC, the consortium behind Abu Dhabi’s Reem Mall, a retail, leisure and entertainment destination, announced that financing for the $1.2 billion project is now complete, by signing the largest real estate asset based facility in the United Arab Emirates in 2017. “The business climate in Abu Dhabi is one of the things ...

Bloomberg OPEC has an Iraq problem: the group’s second-biggest exporter is lurching between quota busting and production-crimping crisis, clouding the policy-making picture as ministers decide how long they need to extend output curbs. After consistently exceeding its output quota all year, Iraqi production plunged in October when clashes between the federal army and fighters from the semi-autonomous Kurdish region disrupted ...