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  • Abdulaziz Bin Nasser Al-Khalifa, CEO, Qatar Development Bank

    QATAR, 2017/08/17 Encouraging entrepreneurs and building a thriving SME sector is integral to the National Vision 2030 plan to develop a sustainable and diversified economy that is not overly dependent on oil revenues. Since 1998, Qatar Development Bank has granted QAR 4.85 billion ($1.33 billion) in loans and advances to Qatari SMEs, while the Qatar Business Incubation Center looks to nurture the emirate’s next QAR 100 million companies

  • Sheikh Abdullah bin Saud Al-Thani, Governor of the Central Bank of Qatar

    QATAR, 2016/10/08 Central Bank Governor Sheikh Abdullah bin Saud Al-Thani remains confident about the prospects for Qatar’s economy, in spite of multiple challenges facing the Middle East-North Africa region and the world at large Persistently low oil prices, rolling conflicts throughout the Middle East, a massive outflow of humanity sparking the world’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II, vicious attacks by terror groups, even the Brexit vote for the U.K. to leave the European Union: all have added to the uncertainty that is shaking international markets and, specifically, those in the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region. But through the challenges and instability, Qatar has been standing strong, not least because of a decade of prudent management by the Central Bank.

  • Finance Minister of the Year 2016

    NEPAL, 2016/01/10 Finance Minister of the Year 2016 awards celebrate the officials that have best managed to stimulate increase and stabilise their economy. Global and Asia-Pacific Ram Sharan Mahat, former finance minister, Nepal Ram Sharan Mahat receives The Banker’s World and Asia-Pacific Finance Minister of the Year awards for his exemplary work in the aftermath of the two disastrous earthquakes that hit Nepal in 2015 and in pushing for reforms to improve governance in the country’s ministry of finance.

  • Qatar takes full ownership of Porta Nuova

    ITALY, 2015/03/30 Qatar's sovereign fund has acquired full ownership of Milan's most significant business district next buying out other shareholders, property group Hines Italia announced Friday. The Qatar Investment Authority has owned 40 % of the Porta Nuova business district since 2013. Hines insurer Unipol and several investment funds were part the selling shareholders in a 25-building development conservatively valued at additional than two billion euros ($2.2 billion).

  • Qatar will maintain its plans to spend heavily on development projects.

    QATAR, 2015/03/30 Qatar will stick to its $200-billion (190 billion-euro) infrastructure spending splurge, the energy-rich Gulf national's premier vowed on Sunday, despite the fall in world oil prices. Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani told business leaders at a Doha finance conference that the kingdom would maintain its plans to spend heavily on development projects in the runup to the football World Cup in 2022. "We reiterate our commitment to investment infrastructure, health and education," he said.

  • Britain's Cameron appeals to Qatar emir for more investment

    QATAR, 2014/11/19 British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday urged Qatar to plough additional of its vast oil and gas wealth into infrastructure projects across Britain during an official visit from the Gulf national's emir. Cameron asked Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to consider further funding to help Britain's push to develop cities in the north of the country and connect them to London using a high speed rail line, a statement released by his office said. Qatar is one of the world's richest nations and is by presently heavily invested in British firms and property. Part its highest profile investments are London's tallest building, the Shard, which was funded by the Qatari royal family, and the upmarket Harrods department store owned by sovereign wealth fund Qatar Investment Authority.

  • A general view of one London's financial centres, Canary Wharf.

    QATAR, 2014/11/09 The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is seeking to acquire Songbird Estates, the owners of London's Canary Wharf financial district. An initial bid of 2.2 billion pounds sterling for the high-rise district overlooking the Thames made by QIA and a US investor, Brookfield Property Partners, was rejected on Friday.

  • Gulf investors remain key driver in Arab Emirate’s property sector

    QATAR, 2014/03/08 The highest four per capita investment are from GCC strengthens Dubai\'s position as regional property investment hub. Qatar has the highest per capita investment in Dubai realty in 2013 (AED 6.71 million), followed by Oman (AED 5.77 million), the UAE (AED 4.56 million), KSA (AED 3.71 million), Germany (AED 2.37 million), India (AED 2.22 million) and Britain (AED 2.11 million). These figures were released in connection with the International Property Show (IPS), which will be held on 8 - 10 April 2014, supported by the Dubai Land Department (DLD). The international real estate transactions during 2013 exceeded AED 114 billion, according to the same DLD statement.

  • Agreement with Hines on plan for renovation of vast area

    ITALY, 2013/05/20 Qatar is buying 40% of Porta Nuova, an ambitious renovation project involving a vast area of Milan whose buildings and skyscrapers, inclunding the new headquarters of bank Unicredit, are changing the skyline of Italy's financial capital. The Italian division of Texas-based international real estate firm Hines and Qatar Holding, an investment arm of the Gulf national's sovereign wealth fund, have signed a 'strategic partnership' which will bring the emirate's fund in a project to change a 290,000 square meter area inclunding Garibaldi, Isola and Varesine neighbourhoods close to the Garibaldi station and hip street Corso Como.

  • Qatar To Invest 10 Billion Pounds In Projects In Britain

    QATAR, 2013/03/23 Qatar has begun talks with the Government of the United Kingdom to invest up to 10 billion pounds (14.92 billion Dollars) in the vital projects of infrastructure in Britain.
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