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Bloomberg UK car sales fall for a second straight month, sliding 4.4% in the country’s weakest September for auto purchases in more than two decades. Registrations dropped to 328,041 cars, according to data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. That follows a 5.8% decline in August and dashes hopes for an early recovery from a coronavirus-driven slump. The ...

Bloomberg Italy’s Nexi SpA agreed to buy SIA SpA in an all-share deal that will create one of Europe’s biggest payment providers. The transaction, which values closely held SIA at 4.56 billion euros ($5.3 billion) will give Nexi shareholders about 70% of the joint company. The combined business will have annual revenue of about 1.8 billion euros and a market ...

Bloomberg The dysfunction in Sweden’s credit market is creating opportunities for investors ready to take advantage of murky pricing and unreliable liquidity. Niklas Edman, a portfolio manager at Carnegie Fonder AB, says that market features such as illiquidity, a lack of transparency and price volatility are “not only a risk or threat, they can also pose an opportunity.” Given the ...

DUBAI / WAM Shuaa Capital has launched three Sharia compliant funds and already secured $75 million of commitments. The Shuaa High Yield Sukuk Fund, Nujoom Aggressive Fund and Nujoom Balanced Fund – the first Sharia-compliant funds within an ICC umbrella to launch in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) – are breaking ground as part of Shuaa’s fund platform rolled ...

Dubai / WAM The Dubai Land Department (DLD), through its Real Estate Promotion and Investment Management Sector, in cooperation with Strategic Holding, launched the “Invest in Dubai Real Estate” initiative, the virtual destination for the real estate industry and the latest and most prominent real estate promotion initiatives in Dubai. The initiative is set to unveil interactive features from November ...

DUBAI / WAM The 50-year Development Plan Committee, in partnership with the General Women’s Union (GWU) launched several discussion panels for the preparation for the next 50 years plan under the title “Planning for the Fifty-Fifty … Women are Support for the Homeland”. The discussions, under the patronage of HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union ...

Bloomberg Chile’s government is considering ways to boost the attractiveness of green-hydrogen projects as the biggest copper-producing nation strives to become carbon neutral. “We will announce the details early November,” Energy Minister Juan Carlos Jobet said in an interview in Santiago. “It will come in the form of some financial assistance to allow investors to have returns during the early ...

Bloomberg US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo will shorten his travel to Asia this week as the White House deals with the spread of the coronavirus among its top officials. Pompeo will visit Tokyo till October 6 for a meeting of the foreign ministers of four of the Indo-Pacific region’s biggest democracies, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The central bank of the UAE (CBUAE) on Saturday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Dubai Islamic Economy Development Centre (DIEDC) to reinforce and expand the reach of the Islamic banking sector, and to advance cooperation in areas of mutual interest. Saif Hadef Al Shamsi, Deputy Governor of the central bank of the UAE, and ...

DUBAI / WAM In his capacity as Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, has directed changes to be made to the travel protocols for passengers arriving or departing from Dubai. The revisions to the protocols aim to ease hassles for passengers and exempt citizens from additional procedures ...