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The steepest refinancing jump is coming to the Gulf’s strongest, lowest-coupon borrowers
Aramco, DP World, Emaar and Sharjah locked in money at 2.7-3.9% in 2019-21, and rolling it now costs 180-335 bps…
GCC AI adoption surges on paper, but scaling past the pilot stays the hard part
The gap between experimenting and embedding is where data readiness, governance and workforce changes decide the outcome — and while…
Iraq devalues to fund its budget as a record of resets limits what it achieves
Baghdad has previously moved the IQD rate in both directions, which economists say tells the market to expect more resets…
Egypt’s gold rush is early, uneven and years from a second major mine
Royalty cuts and a new bidding system drew the explorers in; a thin services base, pricey data and Eastern Desert…
The IMF wants Lebanon’s Financial Gap Law to hold the line on hierarchy of claims, but the Central Bank wants carve-outs
The longer the standoff runs, the more the losses keep landing on depositors and taxpayers while the banks clean up…
The UAE’s domestic payments rails are in place, but the money hasn’t moved yet
The UAE has assembled a full-stack domestic payments system but whether it delivers the cheaper, more resilient payments it was…
A stack of residency incentives is turning Sultan Haitham City into the GCC’s most accessible foreign-buyer real estate market
Concerns over visa and asset safety are also pushing some UAE-based investors to Oman
GCC private schools came through the year better than feared, but Kuwait’s recovery is lagging
Single-gender Qatari demand is filling the seats expat families left behind. Kuwait has no equivalent domestic offset
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