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    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
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      Daily Mail in talks over Qatari funding for Telegraph bid

      Gulf finance in demand as rival media groups circle conservative broadsheet

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    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      Sport
      Saudi Arabia makes first move in mixed martial arts by taking stake in league

      Deal with Professional Fighters League will establish Middle East competition

      Two mixed martial arts female fighters
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Reliance Retail
      Qatar sovereign wealth fund to invest $1bn in India’s Reliance Retail Ventures

      Bet on country’s growing middle class values Mukesh Ambani’s shopping company at $100bn

      Customers ride an escalator at a Reliance mall in Mumbai, India
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Hedge funds
      Lure of sovereign wealth fuels hedge fund rush to Dubai

      Low tax and booming internal job market helps emirate cement position as a global industry hub

      The Burj Khalifa skyscraper in Dubai
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      Luxury goods
      Kering buys 30% stake in Valentino from Qatari fund

      French luxury group has option to purchase full control of Italian fashion house within 5 years

      Model pon catwalk at Valentino’s Winter/Autumn show
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      Qatar Investment Authority
      Qatar sovereign fund seeks stake in Mukesh Ambani’s retail arm

      QIA considers investing in Reliance as Indian conglomerate looks to expand consumer businesses

    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
      Golf
      Saudi Arabia sought central role in professional golf

      PGA Tour officials tell US Senate their planned tie-up with LIV is best chance to preserve sport’s independence

      Richard Blumenthal, the Democratic senator from Connecticut, speaks during a hearing in Washington into last month’s surprise agreement between the PGA Tour and Saudi-funded LIV Golf
    • Monday, 10 July, 2023
      Qatar Investment Authority
      Qatar Investment Authority takes 5% stake in Washington Wizards owner

      Sovereign wealth fund invests $200mn in US sports franchise owner Monumental Sports

      Washington Wizards’ Quenton Jackson aims to dunk basketball during a match
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      UBS Group AG
      UBS shakes up Middle East wealth management team

      Bank under pressure to keep staff happy following combination with Credit Suisse

      UBS office with logo
    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
      Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia
      Saudi Arabia set to launch multibillion-dollar sports investment group

      Plan signals Riyadh’s ambition to expand its push into football, golf, tennis and beyond

      Golfer Dustin Johnson swings his club
    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      HSBC Holdings PLC
      HSBC set to hire Credit Suisse’s Qatar team in blow to UBS

      CS provided banking services to some of country’s wealthiest citizens

      Aladdin Hangari, head of Credit Suisse’s Qatar operations, being interviewed
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      News in-depthAmericas companies
      Colombian tycoon and Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Tahnoon seek global reach for Nutresa

      New owners of Latin American food group spent $2.7bn over 18 months to gain control

      Jaime Gilinski and Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan
    • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
      McLaren Group Ltd
      Bahrain tightens grip on McLaren with purchase of Saudi stake

      Sovereign fund Mumtalakat buys shares from PIF ahead of recapitalisation of UK supercar group

      The Artura supercar, pictured on a track at the Goodwood Festival of Speed
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      Financial services
      Abu Dhabi’s ADQ wealth fund held talks to acquire Lazard

      Move underlines oil-rich emirate’s ambitions to acquire a western financial services company

      Sheikh Tahnoon and Ken Jacobs
    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
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      Sports deals cement Yasir Al-Rumayyan’s reputation at Saudi wealth fund

      PIF boss bets big on golf and football but domestic issues are his biggest challenge

      Yasir al-Rumayyan at Newcastle United’s St James’ Park ground
    • Sunday, 28 May, 2023
      New Development Bank
      Saudi Arabia in talks to join China-based ‘Brics bank’

      Multilateral lender founded as competitor to west has struggled to raise funds because of Russia exposure

      The New Development Bank logo with the flags of its founding members
    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Egypt
      Egypt struggles to lure Gulf buyers in state asset sell-off

      Cairo’s allies have shifted from handing out traditional support to seeking commercial deals and demanding reforms

      Cairo skyline
    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      News in-depthVenture capital investment
      Silicon Valley VCs tour Middle East in hunt for funding

      Liquidity crunch leads investors such as Andreessen Horowitz to sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE

      A montage of photos of Mohammed bin Salman and Ben Horowitz against the Riyadh skyline with a chart
    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      Abu Dhabi
      Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed names his son crown prince of Abu Dhabi

      UAE leader appoints Sheikh Khaled as heir apparent as part of series of changes at top of Gulf state

      Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan
    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      News in-depthIPOs
      Middle East on ‘radar’ of global investors as it enjoys IPO boom

      Frenzy of activity across the region contrasts sharply with Europe’s moribund market

      Dubai skyline
    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Money laundering
      Lebanon’s central bank chief in court to face money-laundering allegations

      Riad Salameh for the first time appears in front of European investigators probing the accusations

      Riad Salameh speaks in an interview
    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Iran
      Iran’s top security official to visit UAE as regional relations thaw

      Trip by Ali Shamkhani follows China-brokered deal between the Islamic republic and Saudi Arabia

      Iranian secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani
    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
      Sheikh Tahnoon named chair of $790bn Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund

      UAE founder’s son — who is both national security adviser and a prominent private sector figure — extends influence

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      The Big Read
      The new Gulf sovereign wealth fund boom

      Companies are flocking to the Middle East to raise capital just as they did in 2008. But funds say they are being more strategic about investments

    • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
      Egypt
      Egypt reaches $3bn IMF loan deal after agreeing to float currency

      Egyptian pound plunges 14.5% after Cairo moves to flexible exchange rate demanded by fund

      A currency exchange office in Cairo
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