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• Dubai: the City that Cried Wolf

  
  Dubai Informer — Authority: 121
  A week ago, Dubai announced to the world that one of its largest entities, Dubai World, will be seeking a moratorium on its debt, believed to be somewhere in the range of $60 Billion.Soon after, various holidays around... Hey Dubai Fan - Please click the headline above so you can read the full version of this ...
  3 days ago

• Breaking news from FT: Dubai rejects debt guarantee. This is going to hurt!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Breaking news from FT: Dubai rejects debt guarantee Dubai’s government will not guarantee the debts of Dubai World, the state-owned holding company struggling under the weight of $59bn (£36bn) in liabilities, arguing that lenders were mistaken to think that there was sovereign backing. Abdulrahman al-Saleh, ...
  5 days ago

• UAE mobile subscribers expand to 7.44m at the end of third quarter

  
  Dubai for Visitors — Authority: 155
  The number of mobile subscribers in the UAE has expanded to 7.44 million at the end of the 
third quarter, depicting a net gain of 180,000 subscribers or 2.5 per cent quarter-on-quarter and 5.5 per cent year on year, in contrast to a loss of 81 Read more here:  UAE mobile subscribers expand to 7.44m at the end of ...
  5 days ago

• Dubai Debt Crisis: Implications for Gulf Economies & Global Financial Markets

  
  Risk Watchdog — Authority: 126
  Suggestions of a technical default on November 26 by UAE-based Dubai World have sent shockwaves through the financial world. Not only are creditworthiness concerns reaching boiling point, but global equity markets, too, seem to initially have gone into panic mode. Business Monitors Liz Martins and Terry Alexander ...
  1 week ago

• Dubai: Decoding The Default

  
  Risk Watchdog — Authority: 126
  The news that Dubai World, one of the stalwarts of the Dubai economy, is potentially defaulting on its debt is, quite simply, massive. It highlights the sheer scale of a financial crisis that Dubai has been doing its best to keep under wraps for more than a year. The situation is far from clear, but here is my ...
  1 week ago

• Bursa Malaysia and KRX: Support of the Malaysia International Islamic Financial Centre’s Initiative aims to boost Growth of Islamic Finance Market- Event 19.11.2009

  
  FiNETIK - Financial Industry Networked Thinking - Asia and Latin America — Authority: 476
  The Korea Exchange (KRX) and Bursa Malaysia will be playing host to the Korean investment bankers, advisers, issuers and institutional investors at its inaugural KRX-Bursa Malaysia Islamic Capital Market Conference, which will be held on 19 November 2009 in Seoul, Korea. This conference which is co-organised in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jordan: Government eyes Islamic sukuks

  
  GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE CENTRE (GIFC) — Authority: 122
  AMMAN –– The Ministry of Finance (MoF) is planning to tap Islamic sukuks (bonds) in a bid to attract more capital to finance government projects. Essa Saleh, the assistant secretary general and spokesperson of the MoF, told The Jordan Times on Monday that the plan seeks to encourage Islamic banks and financial ...
  4 weeks ago

• Countries Will Find Their Niche In Islamic Banking

  
  GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE CENTRE (GIFC) — Authority: 122
  KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 3 (Bernama) -- Malaysias first mover advantage in the Islamic banking and finance industry will remain intact, said Standard Chartered Saadiqs Chief Executive Officer, Afaq Khan.Malaysia is a long-term player in the industry and it is very established, he said."It has a deep Muslim population. It has ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dubai to issue $1.93 billion sukuk

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 513
  The Dubai Government will issue a $1.93 billion Islamic bond, or sukuk, almost $600 million less than initially reported, according to Zawya Dow Jones . Of the $1.93 billion sukuk, $1.25 billion will be dollar-denominated, and the remaining $681 million (AED2.5 billion) will be in dirhams. The bond has received ...
  5 weeks ago

• IFC to list its first Islamic bond in ME – Sukuk is similar to a bond in Western finance but complies with Islamic Shariah law, which forbids charging interest.

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 152
  International Finance Corp to list its first Islamic bond in Middle East for ‘positive’ impact. By P. Parameswaran – WASHINGTON The International Finance Corp., a wing of the World Bank, said Wednesday it would list its first Islamic bond in the Middle East.  The IFC Hilal Sukuk, a greenback-denominated 100 ...
  5 weeks ago

• Budget 2010: Malaysia To Drive Towards High-Income Economy

  
  GLOBAL ISLAMIC FINANCE CENTRE (GIFC) — Authority: 122
  KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has laid down a firm foundation to drive the nation towards embracing a high-income economy in the 2010 budget through bold proposals to raise private equity, invigorating the stock market, further developing Islamic finance while emphasising ...
  6 weeks ago

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