Good afternoon, friends, and welcome to a new workweek. Riyadh is still firmly leading the conversation in our neck of the woods, as it ...

PLUS: Saudi Fund for Development to deploy first USD 406 mn into Syrian energy, health, housing, and roads, and Kuwait’s development fund is weighing ...

Turkey has the proximity, the SMEs, and the engineering depth. What it doesn’t have is the balance sheet to match the reconstruction opportunity ...

The public dispute raises fresh questions about oil revenue leakage a few months after the country got a rare unified budget ...

Limited liability companies and simple limited partnerships in Egypt could soon be allowed to set up and manage their own investment funds in Egypt, as the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) works ...

PLUS: Russia’s Rosatom joins Egypt’s battery-localization pipeline alongside China’s CATL and UAE’s Amea Power ...

Counterparties will have until 30 October to wind down transactions and stakes in entities in which the bank owns 50% or more ...

Attacks on ships in Hormuz have also picked up. “We are nowhere near normal in the Middle East,” says RBC’s Helima Croft. Prices eased this morning after Washington waived sanctions on Russia. Saudi ...

The operator is also moving forward the autonomous vehicles it piloted years ago, in a market where GACA has so far cleared only medical ...

Two of the Kingdom’s biggest construction-sector trade shows, Saudi Build and Saudi Elenex, have been postponed from their original 2-5 November in Riyadh to 1-4 November 2027, because of ongoing ...

A widening gap between what data centers cost and what AI actually earns has frozen the listing window and dragged the biggest “neocloud” bonds ...

PLUS: Heidelberg Materials Egypt takes 36.4% stake in waste-to-fuel firm ZeroCarbon to lock in cement’s alternative fuel supply ...