Author Archives: Vianta

In these trying times of stiff economic headwinds, falling demand, paucity of credit, a liquidity crunch in the market, high fixed costs etc., companies are faced with serious questions about finance and investment some immediate ones being: What is the lending scenario likely to be over the next few years? Given bank consolidation and the […]

Tougher norms require banks to immediately make it known in their books…

Mounting delays are clogging up all avenues to instant and vital funds…

All about IBPC’s Banking, Financial Services & Insurance focus group…

Discussions with bankers, businessmen, professionals reveal a pervasive sense of confusion as to what to make of the UAE economy and where it is headed. This leads to the question permanently on everyone’s lips: When will the economy rebound?

The way the European Commission was taken to task by EU states attests to that…

Discussions with bankers, businessmen, professionals reveal a pervasive sense of confusion as to what to make of the UAE economy now and where it is headed. This leads to the question permanently on everyone’s lips – When will the economy rebound? Unfortunately, this is the wrong question. That economic headwinds are being faced is the […]

Much has been written about the unreliability of financial statements of firms in the UAE, audited or otherwise…