July, 2016

• 11 July

  Emirates Islamic wins Excellence in Practice Citation award

  

    Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates Islamic, one of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the UAE, was honoured with the prestigious Excellence in Practice Citation Award by the Association for Talent Development (ATD). The bank won in the Organisational Learning & Development and Learning Technologies categories for its ‘CX Learning Initiative’ that aims at inculcating the customer-centric philosophy of ...

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• 11 July

  Dubai business conditions strengthen in June

  

    Dubai / WAM The Emirates NBD Dubai Economy Tracker said that business conditions strengthened in June amid the fastest rise in new work since March 2015. June data pointed to a sustained recovery in growth momentum across the Dubai private sector, led by improving business conditions in the travel and tourism and wholesale and retail sectors. At 54.6, up slightly ...

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• 11 July

  Aldar unveils Al Raha Beach’s 1st mural artwork

    Abu Dhabi / WAM In the presence of Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, Aldar Properties, Abu Dhabi’s leading listed property development, investment and management company, on Monday unveiled the first mural artwork in Al Raha Beach, Abu Dhabi. Visible from the roads leading into Abu Dhabi, the artwork is an expression of the ...

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• 11 July

  Kuwait’s KAMCO opens first international office at DIFC

  Dubai / Emirates Business Kuwait’s KAMCO Investment Company, a leading investment company with one of the largest private sector Assets under Management (AUMs) in the region, on Monday announced the opening of its first international office in DIFC. A subsidiary of United Gulf Bank BSC (UGB) Bahrain, KAMCO obtained a Category 4 license from the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA). ...

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• 11 July

  Is anemic growth the new normal?

  

    ST. LOUIS America’s economy has now slouched into the eighth year of a recovery that demonstrates how much we have defined recovery down. The idea that essentially zero interest rates are, after seven and a half years, stimulating the economy “strains credulity,” says James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. But last month he and ...

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• 11 July

  S China Sea row verdict needs to set precedent

    The world’s focus will be on Beijing rather than The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), the world’s oldest international arbitration tribunal, set to issue a written decision on Tuesday after the Philippines challenged China’s claim over much of the strategic waterway, China South Sea, in 2013. In an anticipation of the verdict, China has vowed it would not comply ...

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• 11 July

  Oldest and youngest may determine 2016 US polls

    Albert R. Hunt Years ago, the conservative activist Grover Norquist was the guest speaker in a class I teach at the University of Pennsylvania. “Older people are the base of the Democratic Party,” he told the class of predominantly liberal Ivy League students. “Do you know what they do every day? Die.” Ironically, Norquist’s argument, that Democrats were on ...

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• 11 July

  Economic lessons from developing nations

  Mohamed A. El-Erian Since the onset of the global financial crisis, I have pointed out that advanced economies should learn policy lessons from the experience of the developing world. This argument has been reinforced by two developments last week: the destabilization of the pound after the Brexit vote in the U.K., and indications that the U.S. now has less influence ...

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• 11 July

  UAE a step ahead in the digital race

  

    Emirates Business A newly-released report highlights that the UAE is leading the Arab world when it comes to generating economic impact from investments in information and communications technologies (ICT). The study, titled the World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report 2016, ranked the UAE 26th globally, just ahead of Qatar (27th) while Kuwait (61st) as one of the world’s ...

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• 11 July

  Al Hamra best tourism project of the year

  

    Emirates Business Al Hamra Real Estate Development (AHRED) has extended its winning streak after claiming two awards at the recent MEED Quality Awards for Projects. The Al Hamra Village-based Waldorf Astoria won Best Tourism and Leisure Project UAE. The recently-launched Bayti (meaning ‘my home’ in Arabic) picked up Best UAE residential Property of the Year. “Al Hamra Real Estate ...

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