Sharjah / WAM Sharjah-based Hamriyah Free Zone Authority (HFZA) signed an agreement to lease over half a million square feel to Alucor, an international engineering, procurement, and construction contractor. Under the agreement, Alucor leased 555,418 sq. ft of the inner harbor quayside land in the free zone to expand its operations in the region. Alucor was founded in the UAE ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Shuaa Capital, an asset management and investment banking platform in the region, announced that it has launched a $200 million “SHUAA Financing Opportunities Fund” targeting special situations in the GCC. The fund has already attracted a total of $68 million in commitments from investors. Following Shuaa’s recent success in the private credit space in deploying and ...

Bloomberg In a couple of years, Japan will be paying the highest rates in the world to incumbent power utilities simply for maintaining generation capacity, including coal and nuclear plants, to help meet electricity demand in times of scarcity. That windfall comes at a time when Japan is seeking to liberalise its market, encourage new entrants and boost the use ...