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Macro · Aug 17, 2026 · 3 min read
The Central Bank of the UAE published its Financial Stability Report for 2025 on 17 August. Total banking system assets rose 17.1…
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Macro · Aug 16, 2026 · 4 min read
UAE banks added AED 24.7 billion to gross credit in June 2026, roughly double May’s AED 12.3 billion increase. Almost all of…
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UAE · Aug 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Real estate transactions in Abu Dhabi reached AED 117 billion in the first half of 2026, an increase of 112 percent on…
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UAE · Aug 8, 2026 · 3 min read
The United Arab Emirates has extended its corporate tax Small Business Relief by three years, the Ministry of Finance announced on 7…
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Macro · Jul 29, 2026 · 7 min read
The UAE listed its first sovereign retail Treasury Sukuk on Nasdaq Dubai on 2 July, drawing 445 million dirhams at 4.30 percent,…
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Macro · Jul 23, 2026 · 8 min read
First Abu Dhabi Bank and Qatar National Bank have both reported for the first six months of 2026, and the results present…
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Macro · Jul 22, 2026 · 3 min read
Abu Dhabi has launched Marsa Al Saadiyat, a waterfront development with an investment value of 100 billion dirhams, about 27 billion dollars…
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Energy & Commodities · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has taken a final investment decision worth about 6.2 billion dollars, roughly 22.6 billion dirhams, to develop…
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China · Jul 18, 2026 · 3 min read
The Edge for Economic Consultancy has published a special report, "The 725 Billion Dollar Question: Who Is Really Winning the Global AI…
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Energy & Commodities · Jul 14, 2026 · 3 min read
Abu Dhabi’s Masdar has reached financial close on what it calls the world’s first gigascale round-the-clock renewable-energy project, a 6.1 billion dollar…
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Energy & Commodities · Jul 13, 2026 · 4 min read
Abu Dhabi's national oil company is giving buyers of some of its crude a way to take delivery without sailing through the…
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MENA · Jul 11, 2026 · 3 min read
The UAE attracted 177.3 billion dirhams, about 48.3 billion dollars, in foreign direct investment inflows in 2025, up 6 percent from a…
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The Central Bank of the UAE published its Financial Stability Report for 2025 on 17 August. Total banking system assets rose 17.1 percent to 5.3 trillion dirhams, the loan portfolio grew 17.8 percent, and net profits rose 11.7 percent to 90.8 billion dirhams. The asset quality trend is the finding. The non-performing loan ratio fell…
UAE banks added AED 24.7 billion to gross credit in June 2026, roughly double May’s AED 12.3 billion increase. Almost all of it went outside the country. Foreign credit rose AED 19.9 billion, or 3.5 percent on the month, to AED 582.4 billion. Domestic credit rose AED 4.8 billion, or 0.2 percent, to AED 2.175…
Real estate transactions in Abu Dhabi reached AED 117 billion in the first half of 2026, an increase of 112 percent on the same period a year earlier, according to figures published by the Abu Dhabi Real Estate Centre on 24 July 2026. Transaction volume rose 61.7 percent year on year. Sales accounted for AED…
The United Arab Emirates has extended its corporate tax Small Business Relief by three years, the Ministry of Finance announced on 7 August 2026. Under Ministerial Decision No. 131 of 2026, which amends Ministerial Decision No. 73 of 2023, the relief may now be claimed for tax periods ending on or before 31 December 2029….
The UAE listed its first sovereign retail Treasury Sukuk on Nasdaq Dubai on 2 July, drawing 445 million dirhams at 4.30 percent, against a federal auction programme where short dirham yields rose about 30 basis points through the first half of 2026.
First Abu Dhabi Bank and Qatar National Bank have both reported for the first six months of 2026, and the results present a more nuanced picture than a simple ranking of the two largest banks by assets in the Middle East and North Africa. At the end of June Qatar National Bank was the larger…
Abu Dhabi has launched Marsa Al Saadiyat, a waterfront development with an investment value of 100 billion dirhams, about 27 billion dollars on our calculation at the currency’s peg, in one of the emirate’s largest real-estate and tourism projects to date. The launch was witnessed by the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khaled bin…
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has taken a final investment decision worth about 6.2 billion dollars, roughly 22.6 billion dirhams, to develop the natural-gas cap at its Umm Shaif offshore field, part of the United Arab Emirates’ drive to expand domestic gas supply and reach self-sufficiency. The project will tap the layer of natural gas…
The Edge for Economic Consultancy has published a special report, “The 725 Billion Dollar Question: Who Is Really Winning the Global AI Race?”, examining who leads across the five layers of the artificial-intelligence economy. The report finds no single winner but a contest increasingly defined by capital and infrastructure: Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta alone…
Abu Dhabi’s Masdar has reached financial close on what it calls the world’s first gigascale round-the-clock renewable-energy project, a 6.1 billion dollar plant in the emirate that will pair a vast solar array with one of the largest battery systems yet built to deliver a steady gigawatt of clean power day and night. The company…