Holy Grail: Interview with the World Trade Organisation
Catch a sneak peek of the exclusive first-of-its-kind interview of Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, by Meghna Pant of Trade and Export Middle East. This is an excerpt from the interview. For the full version, read the February issue of the magazine. Can you tell us the role of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and its main objectives? How is [...]
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The new silk route
The first ‘IHT Global Conversation,’ held in Dubai to kick off the 125th anniversary of The International Herald Tribune (IHT), presented compelling viewpoints on the post Arab Spring world, with the panelists discussing the region’s current developmental challenges, the role of the US and Asia, and the significance of the Middle East on the ‘New [...]
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Links Group and the Australian Gulf Council come together
The Links Group and the Australian Gulf Council (AGC) have signed a strategic partner agreement to promote and facilitate trade, investment and other opportunities between Australia and the UAE and Qatar. The partnership was formalised during the Annual Investment Meeting in Dubai last week, a foreign direct investment conference organised by the UAE Ministry of [...]
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Mashreq upgrades its SME product
Mashreq, announced that it’s ‘Business Banking’ solely dedicated to cater to the SME segment has been upgraded Trade & Working Capital facility for Small Business Segment. The new upgrade of the product is a partially secured facility offered to customers to meet their working capital requirement and for import/export of goods and or services. The [...]
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Banks come together for a syndicated loan
Türkiye Finans, a Turkish participation (Islamic) bank, has signed a murabaha syndicated loan deal led by Noor Islamic Bank, ABC Islamic Bank, HSBC, and Standard Chartered Bank. The signing ceremony was held at Conrad Hotel Istanbul, with the participation of Türkiye Finans General Manager Derya Gürerk, ABC Islamic Bank Turkey Representative Muzaffer Aksoy, HSBC Global Banking [...]
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Europe’s third largest paint manufacturer expands regional operations
Dubai Industrial City, the region’s leading manufacturing and logistics destination and a member of TECOM Investments, has signed a project development agreement with Europe’s third largest paint manufacturer, Deutsche Amphibolin-Werke (DAW), to become the location for their Middle Eastern regional office of Caparol Paints LLC. Under the agreement, Caparol Paints which began its regional operations [...]
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DED and Dubai FDI sign agreement with the Australian Gulf Council
The Department of Economic Development (DED) and Dubai FDI, the foreign investment office of DED, have signed a strategic partner agreement with the Australia Gulf Council (AGC) to promote and facilitate trade, investment and other opportunities between Australia and Dubai. The partnership was formalised following the Annual Investment Meeting 2012, hosted in Dubai recently by [...]
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- OANDA launches new community-based trading platform
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