Bloomberg EasyJet Plc’s newly hired chief executive officer is taking a pay cut to match the salary of his predecessor, Carolyn McCall, as the discount airline joins UK-wide efforts to reduce the national gender gap in remuneration. Johan Lundgren’s salary, originally set at 740,000 pounds ($1.04 million), will be reduced 4.6 percent to the 706,000 pounds earned by McCall in ...

ABU DHABI / WAM First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s leading and safest financial institutions, reported its financial results for the full year ended December 31, 2017. FAB delivered a resilient performance in a transitional year with a full year 2017 group net profit at AED10.92 billion ($3 billion), compared to AED11.32 ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business A buoyant GCC Bond and Sukuk market achieved an all-time high issuance of $70 billion in 2017, with sustained investor appetite expected in 2018, according to a co-authored white paper from Emirates NBD Asset Management (Dubai) and Fisch Asset Management (Zurich). The paper, titled “The GCC Fixed Income Market: Then and Now” identifies key themes in ...