Dubai / Emirates Business Intel Security, in partnership with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), released “Tilting the Playing Field: How Misaligned Incentives Work Against Cybersecurity,” a global report and survey revealing three categories of misaligned incentives: corporate structures versus the free flow of criminal enterprises; strategy versus implementation; and senior executives versus those in implementation roles. …

  Dubai / Emirates Business Mergers & acquisitions (M&A) in renewables sector picked up in 2016 across the Middle East and Africa after a long period of slow activity, according to EY report ‘Power transactions and trends: 2016 review and 2017 outlook’. Greenfield activities continue to dominate power and utility transactions in the region, attracting $8.7 billion investment last year …

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC) approved several projects for the fourth quarter of 2016/17 Development Plan, including a range of important commercial, residential and tourism projects in the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi. As many as 24 development projects were approved for the fourth quarter, showing an 18 percent increase compared to the third …