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Dubai Group Restructuring Lifts Debt Cloud

Dubai Group, an investment company owned by Dubai's ruler, has agreed to a $10 billion debt restructuring with its main bank creditors after three years of talks, potentially lifting a cloud of uncertainty that has engulfed the emirate since the fin ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 05/09/2013 - 20:03 - 0 comments

Dubai’s Off-Plan Property Demons Return

The inadequacy of off-plan sales was supposed to be one of the lessons developers and regulators learned from the crisis, which sent real estate prices tumbling by more than half in some parts of Dubai. Such sales were problematic because customers paid ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 05/06/2013 - 20:36 - 0 comments

UAE’s Dana Sukuk Restructuring Vote Postponed To April 23

Dana Gas, the Abu Dhabi-listed energy firm, postponed the shareholder vote for restructuring of the $920 million sukuk to April 23 after a meeting on Sunday failed to meet the required quorum, Gulf News reported on a Reuters story. This is the second tim ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 03/24/2013 - 21:27 - 0 comments

UAE's Dana Gas Sukuk Restructuring Vote Postponed

Dana Gas, the Abu Dhabi-listed energy firm, said a shareholder meeting to vote on the restructuring of the $920 million sukuk did not met the required quorum, Reuters reported. A new meeting has been scheduled for March 21, the company said in a filing t ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 03/14/2013 - 20:01 - 0 comments

Dubai Suitcases of Cash Circumvent Loan Rules

Cash is king in the Persian Gulf emirate’s rebounding property market, limiting the power of regulators to control rising prices that fueled the last property bubble by imposing restrictions on mortgage loans to foreigners. Buyers from Iran to Russia to ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 01/29/2013 - 00:15 - 0 comments

Dubai's Amlak Confirms $1.9 Billion Debt Restructure Talks

Dubai-based property lender Amlak Finance is in talks with creditors to restructure debts of around AED7bn (US$1.9bn), in the latest attempt to resurrect a victim of Dubai's property crash, ArabianBusiness.com reported. The sharia-compliant mortgage ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 01/17/2013 - 21:43 - 0 comments

UAE Banks Seek Solution To Mortgage Restrictions

Property buyers using mortgages will have to stump up more than twice as much out of their own pocket to make a down payment as a result of the Central Bank’s new mortgage rules, new research found yesterday, The National reported. Buyers’ self-fundi ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 01/14/2013 - 20:56 - 0 comments

U.A.E. Limits Mortgages to Foreigners at 50 Percent of Home Value

The United Arab Emirates plans to restrict mortgages for foreigners to 50 percent of the property’s value, threatening to derail a nascent recovery in Dubai home prices after more than three years of declines, Bloomberg News reported today. U.A.E. citize ...

Daily Headline - abi_admin - 12/31/2012 - 10:22 - 0 comments

Dana Gas Completes Restructuring Sukuk Owned by BlackRock

Dana Gas PJSC, whose bondholders include BlackRock Inc and Ashmore Group Plc, completed the restructuring of $920 million of Islamic bonds after agreeing to pay twice the average yield on emerging markets corporate sukuk, Bloomberg Businessweek reported. ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 12/10/2012 - 23:38 - 0 comments

Netoil Submits Revised Offer for Petroplus Refinery in France

Netoil Inc., a Dubai-based company, has submitted a revised offer for insolvent Petroplus Holdings AG’s Petit-Couronne refinery in Normandy, France, teaming up with BP Plc., Bloomberg Businessweek reported. “We didn’t have a supplier before, now, we have ...

Daily Headline - global.abi.org - 11/07/2012 - 00:01 - 0 comments

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