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Workers at Japanese banks aren’t having to rush back to the office, unlike their counterparts on Wall Street, even as the country gradually returns to normal life after the pandemic. The nation’s three largest lenders — Mitsubishi UFJ Financial group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial group and Mizuho Financial group  — said they are allowing more flexibility, eschewing a minimum number of ...

Rishi Sunak might be a safe pair of hands for the UK economy, but investors don’t expect his premiership to give a significant boost to country’s beaten-down equities. While the ex-Goldman Sachs banker is set to bring an end to the kind of extreme volatility that characterised Liz Truss’s brief tenure in Downing Street, Sunak’s more prudent fiscal approach is ...

A record exit by overseas investors from mainland-China equities is putting a fresh focus on stocks with high foreign ownership. Statistics on foreign ownership was the primary client query at Bank of America Corp (BofA) after a leadership reshuffle — which tightened President Xi Jinping’s grip over the country’s ruling party — spurred a historic market rout. “The number one ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM International Holding Company (IHC) is scaling up its information technology businesses, as part of its long-term strategy to grow its capacity in the tech industry across different sectors. Accelerating the growth of its tech businesses portfolio, IHC has increased its technology deals by 100% compared to last year, crossing AED1 billion in the first 10 months. ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank PJSC (ADCB) on Monday reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2022 (Q3 2022). Solid earnings growth as UAE economy remains resilient against challenging global backdrop. During Q3 2022 and compared to Q3 2021, the bank recorded a net profit of AED1.591 billion, an increase of 25%, a net ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala) and KKR, a leading global investment firm, on Monday signed a strategic partnership that will see the two firms co-investing across performing private credit opportunities in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The partnership aims to deploy at least AED3.67 billion ($1 billion) of long-term capital, providing bespoke credit solutions to companies and sponsors. ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE is the latest member state to join the Schools Meals Coalition (SMC), coming off the back of the ministerial meeting in Helsinki. The unfolding food crisis and resulting rise in food insecurity is leading to the new urgency to expand the coalition in all countries and to ensure that every child has the opportunity ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Pakistan Assistance Programme (UAE PAP) has announced the results of the UAE Polio Vaccination Campaign carried out in Pakistan from 2014 to the end of September, highlighting that the campaign succeeded in administering 647,758,365 doses of vaccination against polio in nine years in Pakistan. The move follows the directives of President His Highness Sheikh ...

Dubai / WAM Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower) on Monday announced its intention to proceed with an initial public offering (IPO) and to list a portion of its ordinary shares for trading on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM). In a press conference, Empower said that one billion (1,000,000,000) shares, each with a nominal value of AED0.10 (ten fils) will ...

Lisa Jarvis Some rather alarming headlines recently circulated about the newest members of the omicron family. “Nightmare Covid variant,” read one. “The most immune-evasive Covid variants yet.” Or, as one would-be pandemic influencer said in a tweet shared thousands of times: “MOTHER OF GOD… #COVID variants worse than CDC has been admitting.” Apparently, it’s spooky season for Covid variants. Or ...