Bloomberg Brad Demong and Leander Christofides, senior private-credit investors who left JPMorgan Chase & Co. last year, rejoined the bank to run a newly formed global special situations group in its asset management division. As the team’s co-chief investment officers, the pair will report to Anton Pil and Chris Hayward, co-managing partners of JPMorgan’s global alternatives unit, according to a ...

Dubai / WAM The Mohammed bin Rashid Fund (MBRF), the financial arm of Dubai SME, an agency of Dubai Economy mandated to develop the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, and Beehive, the first and only regulated peer-to-peer lending platform in the MENA region, providing innovative online financing solutions for SMEs, have signed an MoU to facilitate SME financing and ...

ASTANA / WAM Ministers and high-level officials from 85 countries have sent a strong signal in a statement adopted at the Ministerial Conference during the Eighth International Forum on Energy for Sustainable Development, which has opened in Astana, Kazakhstan. Seven voluntary actions in the Ministerial Declaration outline ways to accelerate the transition to a sustainable energy system, from establishing national ...