The Abu Dhabi Projects and Infrastructure Centre (ADPIC) is overseeing one of the largest government development programmes in the UAE, managing a capital investment portfolio worth more than Dh200 billion ($54.5 billion). The portfolio spans over 600 ongoing projects across housing, transportation,…
For someone who has spent about 15 years, after his 20 years in the corporate world, training others to become coaches, mentors, consultants, and trainers. Now he is launching a new program to support them in transforming into successful Entrepreneurs. Ihab ran…
For nearly two decades, Colin Silveira has approached bank marketing as a discipline closer to engineering than persuasion, building departments where none existed and holding them to the same scrutiny as risk and compliance teams. That approach has earned him a 2026…
When Dr. Hajra Nazir sat across from her five-thousandth client, the conversation likely looked much the same as the first: a business owner navigating the dense regulatory landscape of the Middle East, looking for a path through complexity that others had failed…
The fragile calm in the Gulf’s shipping lanes cracked again this week. After attacks on two tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, maritime authorities raised the threat level for vessels crossing the waterway to “severe,” and oil prices climbed as traders reassessed…
Qatar’s Ministry of Transport announced on Sunday, via its official X account, that maritime navigation can resume immediately for all vessel types, ending a suspension that had been in place since June 29. The pause was narrower than it first sounded. It…
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait closed the second quarter heading in opposite directions. The kingdom’s non-oil businesses picked up speed in June while Kuwait’s kept shrinking, and the gap between the Gulf’s two neighbours says a lot about who absorbed the Iran war…
Genel Energy is paying $360 million in cash for Capricorn Energy, a deal that gets the Kurdistan-focused oil producer into Egypt for the first time and finally spreads its production risk beyond one increasingly volatile region. The terms Genel will pay $4.70…
Seline Solberg built Voltique LLC on a different premise: that consistent communication and honest service are worth more than the lowest bid. Voltique LLC, based in New York, supplies power infrastructure for Bitcoin mining operations and high-density data centers, a sector defined…
Somewhere in the history of every prop trading scam is a review site that ranked the firm highly. Not because the traders said so. Because the firm paid enough. That single, repeating dynamic, ranking by payment rather than performance, has quietly drained…
