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  • At a Glitzy Saudi Investment Forum, Almost No Mention of War

    “Notwithstanding the regional war ensuing, the Gulf political elites, in particular in Saudi Arabia, need to project that they are open for business,” said Aziz Alghashian, director of research at the Observer Research Foundation Middle East, a think tank. “Restructuring the economy is not a matter of preference or desire, but the Saudis are considering the restructuring of the economy as an existential matter,” he added. “They need to make sure regional turmoil does not hinder these economic ambitions.”

  • Abu Dhabi Heavy Hitters Skip FII, Showing Riyadh Competition

    Key figures from Abu Dhabi, like Mubadala Investment Co. Chief Executive Officer Khaldoon Al Mubarak, have previously attended the event. But not many prominent names from the emirate have made the short trip over to Riyadh this year for the eighth edition of the summit. To solidify its advantage, the emirate started a conference of its own, Abu Dhabi Finance Week. That’s drawn prominent names, including billionaire Alan Howard who last year said the emirate could become a global financial center, and Bridgewater Associates Founder Ray Dalio, who has become the face of Abu Dhabi’s success in drawing hedge fund luminaries.

  • Gulf region is world’s ‘most ambitious economic reform story,’ says Templeton executive at FII 2024

    “If you think about it, really, from a broad global landscape today, we’re seeing global growth is fairly sluggish. We’re seeing emerging markets being mixed bags,” Khatoun told Arabian Business. ”There’s a few areas of the world today where you can look at and say there’s an embedded structural, multi-year structural growth story.” The transformation encompasses multiple dimensions, he noted. “The stories are folding in many different ways. But there’s economic reform, there’s capital markets reform, and there’s social reform, and for investors like us, that’s unlocking tremendous opportunities.”

  • Compliance Issues in the Construction Supply Chain in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    The construction industry in the Middle East, especially in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), has witnessed rapid growth due to the mega-projects and Vision 2030, which aims to diversify the KSA’s economy. This expansion has also brought about complex compliance challenges in the construction supply chain. Financiers, developers, contractors, suppliers and stakeholders must ensure adherence to local laws and international standards to enable the successful delivery of projects. Non-compliance with such requirements can result in financial penalties, delays, additional costs and reputational damage.

  • Saudi Arabia Vows to Maintain Its Status as an Oil Giant

    As Saudi Arabia prepares to tender 44 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy projects, it will continue to maintain its oil-producing potential to ensure global energy security, officials from the Kingdom said at the annual investment forum in Riyadh on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude oil exporter, will keep its maximum sustainable capacity of 12.3 million barrels per day (bpd) going forward. By 2027, the Kingdom will have more than 1.1 million bpd of production of oilfields currently under development, which are expected to offset the natural decline of legacy fields.

  • Saudi Arabia Looks for More Global Investments in Chemicals Push

    The kingdom is already in talks to buy stakes in companies in China and the state-run Saudi Aramco has said it wants more deals this year and the next. Investing in plants that produce chemicals — which Riyadh sees as a driver of growth of future oil demand — as a way to ensure it has a ready market for its vast crude supply. “We will be using oil to chemicals, domestically and abroad, and that’s why you see us, or you see Aramco investing a lot in China and we will be investing a lot everywhere else on planet Earth,” Saudi Arabia Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman said at the Future Investment Initiative summit in Riyadh. “In this room in 2019, I did say we will monetize every molecule of energy this land has. Period.”

  • Saudi’s first China-focused ETF to become the largest in Middle East

    Saudi Arabia's first exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track Hong Kong-listed shares, mainly Chinese firms, are expected to be the largest such funds in the Middle East. Trading of the product, which kicks off on Wednesday on the Saudi Stock Exchange, has raised more than $1.2 billion at the start, issuer Albilad Capital and its partner Hong Kong's CSOP Asset Management said. The initial size will surpass the current largest Islamic ETF - Al Rayan Qatar ETF - listed on the Qatar Exchange, LSEG data shows.

  • Yemen’s Houthi rebels target ship in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off Red Sea

    The attack ended an 18-day lull in reported assaults attributed to the Houthis, who have been attacking ships traveling through the Red Sea corridor for nearly a year now over the Israel-Hamas war raging in the Gaza Strip. The violence has disrupted international shipping through the region, once valued at $1 trillion in goods annually.

  • Saudi Arabia is ready to mediate between Russia and Ukraine, TASS cites envoy as saying

    Saudi Arabia is ready to act as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine, Russian state news agency TASS cited the Saudi ambassador to Moscow as saying on Tuesday. It quoted the envoy as saying that the kingdom was supportive of moves to de-escalate the Ukraine crisis and "ready to make intermediary efforts in order to establish contacts between all involved parties". No peace talks have taken place between Russia and Ukraine since the first weeks of the war in 2022, although several outside parties including China and African leaders have come forward with peace initiatives.

  • Saudi Arabia condemns Israeli parliament’s decision to ban UNRWA

    The move “constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and a direct violation of the rules of international legitimacy, in light of the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe facing the brotherly Palestinian people,” the Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA.