Global Finance

Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc: Plus Ça Change

In a fast-moving world driven by relentless technological progress that disrupts everything in its path, unhurried comfort and timeless style have become statements of...
Muttrah - Port Sultan Qaboos

OMRAN – driving Oman’s renaissance in tourism

“ACCESSIBILITY, safety, good weather, and friendly people. We have everything here,” says OMRAN CEO Peter Walichnowski, rolling out Oman's welcome mat for tourists and...
Duqm Port Muscat

Duqm Or Bust!

Tiny port on the Arabian Sea is set to become one of the most economically strategic places on earth… By Darren Parkin CHANCES are you’ve never...

ZICA ASSIS (Founder, Beliza Natural): A real rags to riches tale

AS a child in the seventies, Zica Assis and her family had nothing. They lived, like thousands of others in the run-down favelas of...
Factoring

When debt can be an asset…

FACTORING could be simplified and summed-up as buying debt. Along with wider bank support and government initiatives, it is seen as a route to liquidity...

Mohamed A El-Erian: The Great Policy Divergence

Over the next few weeks, the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are likely to put in place notably different policies. The...
Business, finance, currency, SME banking illustration

SMEs find banks ‘biased against them’

NEARLY three quarters of UK SMEs say their banks discriminate against them in favour of larger companies. Fintech platform HedgeFlows canvassed the leaders of 500...
US Federal Reserve building

Holdun Family Office finds serenity and growth amid pandemic chaos —...

Holdun’s uncorrelated Alternative Investment Funds provide shelter from the oscillations of the volatile equity market. MICHAEL O’CONNOR reports. THE FIRST half of 2020 has been...
Cheese shop

The cheese! The cheese! US tariffs hit EU where it will...

By Hal Williams OH DEAR, Gromit! The US is set to impose 25 percent tariffs — worth $7.5bn (£6.1bn) — on EU exports of cheese,...
Cathay Pacific 747

Cathay Pacific losing altitude

Once held up as a benchmark of luxury long-haul air travel, the company’s determination not to jump on the low fair bandwagon looks like...