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ABU DHABI / WAM First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) has been named ‘World’s Best Bank for Transformation’ at the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2019, at the recent ceremony in London. This year’s awards demonstrated growing importance of UAE’s banks to global finance sector. FAB was given the award for best bank transformation after successfully merging, integrating, and enhancing its services ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Following its appointment by the Government of Abu Dhabi to deliver AED5 billion worth of landmark projects in the Emirate, Aldar Properties PJSC, Aldar, announced on Monday further details on the expected commercial and socio-economic impacts of those projects. The three projects reaffirm Aldar’s status as the partner of choice for the Abu Dhabi Government. The ...

Bloomberg Commodity markets are stripping away the case for coal in Europe, moving quicker than government efforts to close the most polluting power plants. A plunge in natural gas prices along with an increase in the cost of releasing carbon dioxide emissions shifted the profitability of generating electricity away from burning coal, according to data compiled by BloombergNEF. The trend ...

Bloomberg Royal Philips NV’s efforts to revamp supply chains to mitigate the impact of the US-China trade dispute are paying off, with the Dutch health-care company reporting better-than-estimated profit. The maker of scanners and diagnostic gear needs China as state-owned facilities invest in the latest equipment and a private healthcare sector emerges. Demand there drove a double-digit increase in orders ...

Bloomberg Iran, locked in a worsening political standoff with Western powers, has handed down death sentences to several nationals accused of being part of a CIA-trained spy network uncovered earlier this year, an official said on Monday. Seventeen people were arrested in all, a senior intelligence official told foreign media in Tehran. None of the suspects are dual nationals, according ...

Bloomberg India successfully launched its second mission to the moon on Monday, a week after a technical snag forced the South Asian nation to postpone the attempt. The unmanned Chandrayaan-2, which means “moon vehicle” in Sanskrit, was launched at 2:43 pm local time from a tiny barrier island in southeastern India. The country is attempting to become the first nation ...

Bloomberg India is facing a silent fiscal crisis owing to a shortfall in tax revenues, and the government’s budget suggests it may have grossly underestimated the problem. That’s the assessment of Rathin Roy, a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, who said the budget presented this month won’t help fully reverse the problem in the current financial year ...

Bloomberg Public backlash in South Korea against Japanese products has dented some sales of tour packages, and analysts say the boycott could spread to luxury cars and retailers as a trade spat between the two countries shows no sign of abating. While Fast Retailing Co doesn’t have a large exposure to Korea through its Uniqlo stores, the clothing chain may ...

BEIJING / WAM The UAE “will become a shining pearl along the Belt and Road,” a senior Chinese official said on Sunday, as His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, started his state visit to China. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed’s visit to China “will go ...

DAKAR / WAM President Macky Sall of Senegal welcomed an official UAE delegation led by Hussain Jasim Al Nowais, Chairman of the Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development (KFED) to the Senegalese capital, Dakar. During the delegation’s visit, President Sall praised the strong ties and friendly relations between his country and the UAE. He also expressed his country’s keenness towards supporting ...