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UK property developer’s new project attracts interest from GCC investors

Emirates Business Select Property Group, the premium British property developer with its largest sales centre in Dubai, has announced the launch of its latest project in Manchester—the UK’s number one investment city. CitySuites 2 is already attracting significant interest across the GCC region and follows the success of the first CitySuites project that was sold in 2015, in which over ...

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Investigators to quiz Indian bank chiefs over $2bn fraud

Bloomberg Federal investigators are seeking to question the chiefs of India’s biggest lenders as they widen their probe into the $2 billion fraud at Punjab National Bank. The Enforcement Directorate has written to the heads of 31 banks asking to meet officials about the fraud, according to people familiar with the matter. The investigators will start with state-run PNB on ...

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Kazakh financial hub eyes sovereign sukuk

Reuters Kazakhstan’s financial centre expects the government to issue Islamic bonds, or sukuk, in coming months as part of efforts to develop Islamic finance business in the central Asian country, an official said on Tuesday. Final legislative changes to allow issuance of sovereign sukuk are nearly complete, alongside registration of a special purpose vehicle by the Ministry of Finance, said ...

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