Driven by enhanced liquidity in the banking sector, rising property prices and an overall improvement in the domestic economy, Dubai’s capital markets began 2013 in full recovery mode. In June 2013 the UAE was finally upgraded from “frontier” to “emerging market” status by the global index compiler MSCI, after nearly five years of efforts to...
Despite the ample liquidity in the Gulf region, Dubai’s exchanges still lack diverse debt-financing tools for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and are in need of new listings from major national companies to boost trading volumes and broaden the institutional investor bases of bourses.
How strongly held is the view in the industry that trade finance remains a largely untapped sector?
Is the absence of institutional investors in Gulf bourses a serious impediment to market depth?
The Islamic financial services (IFS) industry has grown increasingly popular in recent years, with worldwide assets totalling $1.8trn in 2012 and forecast to top $2trn by the end of 2014. Having already established a reputation as a leading regional financial centre with abundant liquidity, Dubai has emerged as a major beneficiary of the IFS growth story. Sharia-compliant project financing,...
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