News item: United Arab Emirates blocks overflight of Canadian Defence Minister When did we go to war with my friends in the United Arab Emirates? According to most local media outlets, multi-year landing right...
To think that robust Canadian security capabilities are becoming a pain for Research in Motion (RIM:TSX, RIMM:Q). One of the key positive attributes of the BlackBerry — Elliptic curve cryptography — has befuddled the...
News report: US$30.2 million funding approved for Abu Dhabi SMEs I see in my Arabian Business journal that The Sheikh Khalifa Fund for Support and Development of Small and Medium Enterprises has advanced another...
Hard to believe that it took another year, but a Canadian bank has finally set-up shop in the Dubai International Financial Centre. The Bank of Nova Scotia, Canada’s most international of financial organizations, was...
As nervous as I was on Friday morning about the ability of global banks to duck the impact on a payment standstill at Dubai World (see prior post “Eid’s pause won’t help Western Banks...
The markets are closed in Dubai today for Eid. After a crazy 36 hours on the local trading desks, the respite will be particularly welcome; even if Sunday is coming. A friend of mine...
Leave it to a Kuwaiti cabinet minister to tell us like it is! I had the good fortune of attending a luncheon yesterday hosted by law firm BLG. The guest of honour has Ahmad...
The big news from the Gulf region this week isn’t that the United Arab Emirates has pulled out of the planned Gulf monetary union, which essentially kills the Saudi plan to have a single...
It takes two views to make a market, doesn’t it? A buyer and a seller. Black and white. Short and long…. So it is with no delight that I bring you two distinct views...
This information courtesy of Bill Vlaad, Vlaad & Co.: “CIBC World Markets appointed veteran Trader, Jo-Anne O’Connor, Head of Liability Trading. Anthea Stanley joined the Institutional Trading desk at RBC Capital Markets after leaving...
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