The Financial Services Association wants to encourage the UAE's vast sovereign wealth funds to invest in local bourses to boost market liquidity and help develop a local industry for expatriate pensions. Read Article Push for UAE investment by sovereign wealth funds
The Dubai International Financial Centre fears a challenge from an increasingly competitive Qatar, which is attempting to position itself as the Gulf's next finance hub. Read Article Qatar may rival UAE financial crown
The Securities and Commodities Authority has finalised plans for a shake-up of the investment management industry, under which it will assume oversight of fund managers. Read Article Change in oversight for fund managers
Top fund managers and industry officials voiced support for the stock market regulator's new rules on share ownership, but said more legislation to protect minority shareholders was also needed. Read Article Financial industry supports new rules
Market officials have been rewriting the country's regulatory rule book in the wake of the global financial crisis in an effort to ensure investors, lenders and borrowers are able to do business in as safe an environment as possible. Read Article Crisis leads to revamp of the rules on UAE markets
The UAE's stock market regulator unveils a major reform of share ownership rules that require greater disclosure by investors building big stakes in listed companies. Read Article Overhaul for rules on ownership of shares
The stock market regulator has barred company directors from leaking inside information and obliged them to disclose the shareholdings of their spouses and children in a new rule introduced yesterday. Read Article Regulator bans leaks by company directors
Most people don't know anything about the Algerian city selected by the Arab League's cultural arm to be the capital of Arab culture in 2015. Alice Fordham reports from Constantine Constantine, the most beautiful city you've never heard of
Former England cricket captain Adam Hollioake has morphed into a cage fighter and wants to show off his new boxing skills against Carlos Spencer at Fighting Chance Dubai, writes Paul Radley. Hollioake not short on confidence ahead of Fighting Chance
Star Trek's technological feats are ahead of the times - dreamt up almost half a century ago, much of its technology is today a reality. Can’t you beam me up, Scotty?
Istanbul's famous mosque tries to strike balance between religion and tourism money by providing tourists with coverings. Thomas Seibert reports Turkey tightens Blue Mosque dress code
