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As founder of Emaar Properties — the company behind the Burj Khalifa, Dubai Mall and hundreds of thousands of homes — he has seen storms before. Here, he explains why the UAE’s greatest chapters are yet to be written.

Parallax, a research and analytics tool, is designed to help investment teams form, review, and govern investment decisions by integrating market data, research, factor signals, scenario analysis and portfolio context into a structured workflow.

The 20th century's social contract organized economic life around employment. The 21st century is producing a new category of participant — the Economic Citizen — whose productivity, income, and identity operate independently of any single employer or geography. The countries that build the infrastructure for this category will define the next economic era. The UAE is already building it, visibly and at speed.

The free zone also recorded 1,822 license renewals, maintaining a 96% renewal rate, while total active companies surpassed 2,500 by December 2025.

Under the agreement, Legend Rent a Car will initially supply 1,000 vehicles to be listed on the Swapp platform.

This comes after the UAE ranked first in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report 2025–2026 for the fifth consecutive year and placed among the top five globally in the StartupBlink Global Startup Ecosystem Index, ranking first regionally.

A 5 Pearl rating is the highest level awarded and measures performance across energy and water efficiency, environmental impact, occupant wellbeing, and operational resilience.

Overall, Sharjah recorded 331 domestic and foreign investment projects in 2025, representing combined investments of AED12.8 billion and the creation of 11,898 jobs.

Gross credit rose 2.5% to AED2,695.6 billion from AED2,630.7 billion, driven by a AED52.4 billion increase in domestic credit.

H.H. Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairperson of Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), inaugurated the 20th edition of Art Dubai at Madinat Jumeirah on May 14.

Ma’an by Majid Al Futtaim has announced its first cohort, including 27 UAE-based creative businesses.

Finance usually changes at the edges before the center admits anything has moved. The next serious shift in money is happening where inflation, currency friction, limited banking access, and cross border restrictions turn financial infrastructure into a daily constraint. This is the space Reni Achkar has chosen to build through Cantor8, between regulated finance and […]

The funding will support Aumet’s expansion across global healthcare systems, with a focus on scaling enterprise deployments in the GCC, particularly Saudi Arabia.

Government contracts awarded to RUWAD member projects totalled AED2.32 million during the first quarter, compared to AED1 million during the same period last year.

Dubai also recorded progress in 16 out of 20 technology indicators and advanced across all four pillars of technology governance in the 2025 report.

kidney.com was developed in collaboration with more than 30 nephrologists, physicians and nurses across 13 countries, and underwent more than 14,000 chat interactions during its testing phase ahead of launch.

The transaction is expected to close in early Q3 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and customary conditions.

A new DeFi protocol is giving retail investors access to strategies once reserved for hedge funds, and it is building on the infrastructure that Wall Street’s biggest names already trust. There is a persistent myth in finance: that the most powerful investment strategies are simply too complex, too expensive, or too exclusive for ordinary people […]

The global investment conglomerate purchased a 22.27% equity stake in Emaar, increasing its total ownership to 29.73%.

Built on the company’s Munsit Arabic automatic speech recognition model, Munsit Edge enables real-time transcription across major Arabic dialects on consumer hardware.

Under the agreement, purchasers of units at ENTA Mina will be issued an investor visa and a trade license covering more than 1,500 approved business activities.

Interhash, founded by Alexander Lozben, operates in the cryptocurrency mining sector across multiple regions, including Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and has expanded its presence in the US.

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank served as the sole arranger and sole lender of the facility, which is backed by portfolios of trade receivables across TruKKer’s operating markets.

Construction is scheduled to begin in July 2026, with completion targeted between the fourth quarter of 2027 and the first quarter of 2028.

UAE GEMS positions itself less as a traditional promotion and more as a coordinated demand-generation moment within the UAE’s food delivery ecosystem.

Vision Golfe 2026 takes place in a moment when geopolitics is no longer a backdrop to commerce, but a direct input into economic decision-making, from export controls and investment screening to industrial policy and supply-chain security.

The combination of record-breaking Q1 growth and a post-conflict recovery serves as a blueprint for Dubai’s stability and its status as a destination for global capital.

The record number of membership renewals underlines Dubai’s strong capacity to adapt to global shifts, supported by a forward-looking vision that prioritises sustainable growth, competitiveness, and business resilience.

At the real GDP level, the non-oil sector accounted for 70.7%, compared to 29.3% for the oil sector.

The Ministry has also amended eInvoicing accreditation rules to enable local companies to partner with international providers, supporting knowledge transfer and accelerating the UAE’s digital transformation.