DUBAI / WAM Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) is set to acquire Noor Bank, enhancing Dubai’s position as the capital of Islamic economy and creating the region’s most powerful Shari’a banking group. The DIB’s board meeting recommended its shareholders consider the takeover of 100 percent shares of Noor Bank, after obtaining all necessary approvals from the competent regulatory authorities and taking ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump threatened to raise tariffs on China again if President Xi Jinping doesn’t meet with him at the upcoming Group of 20 summit in Japan. Trump was asked in an interview with CNBC on Monday whether tariffs on about $300 billion in Chinese goods would be enacted immediately if there’s no meeting at the summit later ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE and the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena), on Monday, signed a supplementary agreement to the headquarters agreement that was signed in 2012 on hosting the Agency’s permanent headquarters in the UAE capital. The new document outlines the specific conditions governing the occupancy by Irena of its headquarters premises Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, ...