August, 2018

• 13 August

  Mena data center spend poised to reach record $5bn by 2020

  

  Dubai / Emirates Business As the Middle East accelerates its digital transformation and Smart Cities growth, regional data center spend will reach a record-high of $5 billion by 2020, industry experts announced ahead of GITEX Technology Week. Middle East and North Africa data center spend to reach a record high of $5.1 billion by 2020, increasing by 8.5 percent from …

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• 13 August

  US futures pare losses as traders weigh Turkey impact

  

  Bloomberg US stocks erased earlier gains to trade lower as investors weighed the impact of the economic crisis in Turkey creeping into global markets. The dollar reached the highest in more than a year, while developing-nation currencies slumped. The S&P 500 Index was flat and Dow Jones Industrial Average retreated in light summer trading, while strength in technology propped up …

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• 13 August

  ICOs turn exclusive as wealthy investors snatch up big deals

  

  Bloomberg ICOs were supposed to be IPOs without the Wall Street middlemen and Washington meddling. Now they’re looking a bit less revolutionary. Initial coin offerings have raised $18 billion for blockchain startups this year, almost five times last year’s total, according to CoinSchedule. But unlike 2017, this is increasingly due to blockbuster sales that targeted accredited investors instead of just …

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• 13 August

  Consumers taking Bank of Canada rate hikes in stride

  

  Bloomberg Higher Canadian interest rates don’t appear to be worsening the pain for consumers, yet. Some 53 percent of Canadians say rising borrowing costs haven’t had a negative impact on their personal spending, according to a survey by Nanos Research taken earlier this month. Around 43 percent of respondents say they are feeling at least somewhat of a pinch, with …

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• 13 August

  BEA falls most in 3 years after cut from Hang Seng Index

  

  Bloomberg Bank of East Asia Ltd. slumped the most since July 2015 following news it will be cut from Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index along with China Merchants Port Holdings Co., which also tumbled. BEA closed down 5.8 percent on Monday, making it the worst performer on the Hong Kong benchmark, even after paring some earlier losses. China Merchants Port …

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• 13 August

  Malaysia investment banks get more women chiefs

  Bloomberg Malaysia has a higher proportion of female investment bank chiefs than any other big country. In the male-dominated world of investment banking, women are increasingly rising to the top in a place you might not think to look. Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim country better known for its recent political turbulence than its gender diversity, now has female bosses at …

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• 13 August

  Morgan Stanley intern nabs senior Southeast Asia role in seven years

  

  Bloomberg Morgan Stanley is promoting a pair of dealmakers in Southeast Asia, with one banker rising from intern to a senior position in just seven years. The US firm has appointed Jannie Tsuei, who started as an intern in New York in 2011, as chief operating officer for Southeast Asia investment banking, according to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg. …

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• 13 August

  ‘Deutsche Bank’s Asia cuts largely completed’

  

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG has almost finished restructuring its Asian investment-banking business and plans to add bankers in the coming months, said regional head James McMurdo. “Yes we did trim, but we trimmed where we thought we were less competitive, or where we thought the opportunity was not that significant and that has largely been completed,” McMurdo, who leads corporate …

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• 13 August

  China shouldn’t rapidly push internationalised yuan: Zhou

  

  Bloomberg The internationalisation of the yuan has happened “earlier than expected,” but China should be keeping a low profile and not push it aggressively, former central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said. The loss of trust in the dollar after the global financial crisis and other external events were factors increasing the use of the currency internationally, and China cannot force …

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• 13 August

  Eshraq Properties’ H1 income hits 4-year high

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Eshraq Properties, the Abu Dhabi based real estate company listed on Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), reports a net profit of AED14.8 million for the first half of 2018 versus a net loss of AED0.32 million for the same period last year. The results are the best half-yearly results for the company since the first …

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