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Issue 876 - 08 May 2010

The First Investor launch

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The First Investor (TFI) has said it will launch two $500m funds aimed at investing in Brazilian and Russian real estate. According to the UK’s The Financial Times, TFI will partner Gazprombank to launch a fund that will mostly focus on Moscow.

Qatar
Issue 875 - 24 April 2010

IRAN:Esfahanis surprise Korean bid

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Entekhab Industrial Group in mid-April was named as the buyer for Daewoo Electronics in a deal thought to be worth some $540m. Entekhab and Swedish firm Electrolux AB on 24 March were named top bidders for Daewoo Electronics,

Iran
Issue 875 - 24 April 2010

OMAN: Investment fund looks east

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Oman Investment Fund (OIF) has become a foreign strategic partner of PetroVietnam Insurance (PVI). OIF’s Funderburk Lighthouse has acquired shares worth some $42.5m, representing 12.6%

Oman
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The World Bank has approved a $5m grant to expand access to water for poor households in peri-urban areas.

Yemen
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GSN has long profiled leading players in the Gulf, focusing on the personal, political and business relations that are rarely covered in the region. In line with this tradition, GSN is running an occasional series of profiles of major families and business entities, starting with the Al-Zawawis

Oman
Issue 875 - 24 April 2010

FUJAIRAH: ITFC cement company loan

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The Islamic Development Bank group’s International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation has signed a Dh73m ($19.8m) trade finance agreement

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Issue 875 - 24 April 2010

Qatar positions itself for Areva deal

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Qatar is lining up a potential bid for a stake in French nuclear world-beater Areva – which will have to confront French resistance to an Arab government buying into a ‘national champion’ but seems to have the support of President Nicolas Sarkozy and French lobbies that have long cultivated relations with Doha and Abu Dhabi

Qatar
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Abu Dhabi’s ambitious Mubadala Development Company has released results for 2009, which are better than those for 2008, although it appears MDC is substantially dependent on government-related operational activities, external investments and shares in foreign entities to offset losses elsewhere in its portfolio to make an overall profit. “Total comprehensive income was Dh8.6bn, largely driven by revenue from the sale of goods and services at Dh13.1bn and improvements in the fair valuation of investments at Dh6.4bn,” said MDC’s report.

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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While the secession of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) area has occupied most attention, a failure of state-building in post-Baathist Iraq might also see other regions looking for at least Kurdish levels of autonomy, if not outright independence. Of most concern to Baghdad would be the hydrocarbons-rich south. GSN spoke to a range of decision-makers in Basra to test the support for different kinds of decentralisation in the province, which has been called ‘the failed Gulf state’ by historians of the area

Iraq
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Sheikh Ahmed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, a son of the UAE’s founding president, has died after a microlight aircraft he was learning to fly crashed in Morocco on 26 March. Sheikh Ahmed was managing director of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (Adia) and had substantial business interests.

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Six Abu Dhabi government-related entities and UAE state-owned Etisalat have been downgraded, while Abu Dhabi Investment Authority’s first review lacks detail

United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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Atradius Dutch State Business has highlighted a significant series of claims and payment delays.

Saudi Arabia | Bahrain | United Arab Emirates (UAE) | Qatar
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Atradius Dutch State Business has highlighted a significant series of claims and payment delays. The Dutch export credit agency has received claims on Saudi Arabia and run into payment delays from Qatar and Bahrain “where risk was written in both cases with the 100% support of the government”, director

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The Saudi economy did better last year than most analysts expected, with the 2010 budget, the Kingdom’s largest, showing the government’s determination to support the economy through trying times, according to Riyad Capital’s latest Quarterly Saudi Economic Report.

Saudi Arabia
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Saudi Arabia’s Capital Market Authority (CMA) has revoked Ernst & Young Saudi Arabia Consulting’s securities licence because of “several violations” of the Kingdom’s capital market law and implementing regulations

Saudi Arabia