The real estate company's CFO is keeping a careful eye on cash, writes Tim Burke.

Indian corporates turn to GCC banks for funding; another bumper year predicted for sukuk.

Emirates with innovative sukuk deal, BBK with bond US$400mn bond issuance. 

DCM markets in MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa in record start to year.

In a market where space limits scale, local firms have needed to be ambitious and smart about how and where they work. Qatar is the smallest country in the Gulf Cooperation Council by area and population after Bahrain. Banks and companies alike have grown accustomed to looking beyond the borders and offshore for business. For newer banks like Barwa that’s meant pushing to win work on international deals such as the UK sukuk.

Islamic finance has caught the interest of a number of African sovereigns in recent years. But on a local currency level, it has actually been around a while. Standard Bank’s global head of debt primary markets Megan McDonald, shares her insights with EMEA Finance.

Like so many hyped events, the first day of liberalised trading on the Tadawul, Saudi Arabia’s Stock Exchange, was a little bit underwhelming. Many commentators expected foreign investors to be queuing up at the door, waiting for entry into a room full of blue chip shares from previously inaccessible multi-billion-dollar market-cap companies.

AFC and IDB - Building bridges

Coverage of this year's winners across treasury services, transaction banking and trade.

Changing times for Middle East companies

Big projects and headlines, don't necessarily mean private partners can be easily

Kuwait is planning its first sovereign sukuk issuances.