LuLu Group strikes Switzerland hotel deal

    2019-02-15T14:35:54+00:00February 14th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – February 2019|

    Indian business group LuLu, headquartered in Abu Dhabi, recently made its European entry with a hospitality deal in Zurich. The LuLu Group has announced its entry into mainland Europe with a new agreement with a Switzerland-based real estate company to develop a new four-star hotel in the Swiss city of Zurich. Twenty14 Holdings (T14H), the hospitality investment arm of Abu Dhabi based LuLu Group International, said that it has entered into a forward purchase contract with Necron AG for the upcoming IntercityHotel Zurich Airport [...]

      Why companies are planning a UK exit over Brexit

      2019-02-15T14:36:00+00:00February 13th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – February 2019|

      Latest figures from an Institute of Directors (IoD) study show that nearly one in three of its members could be forced to shift operations out of the UK as the March 29 deadline of Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU) nears. Nearly one in three (29 per cent) UK-based businesses could be forced to shift operations abroad due to Brexit, a new report by an influential lobby group made up of business leaders warned in its latest analysis. The Institute of Directors (IoD) conducted a member [...]

        A wide scope of Indian expansion in Malaysia

        2019-08-28T13:36:22+00:00February 13th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – February 2019, Home Page|

        The Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) runs through ways Indian investors can capitalise on business opportunities in Malaysia. Malaysia is no stranger to the Indian business community. The relationship has been dynamic, evolving in the rapidly changing international environment. The Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA), the principal investment promotion agency for the country, set up its overseas office in Mumbai in April 2008. This office is responsible for the promotion of quality Indian investments into Malaysia, to provide potential investors [...]

          A platform to unleash AI innovation

          2019-02-15T14:36:23+00:00February 13th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – February 2019|

          A fintech expert delves into the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the financial services sector. We are all experiencing the tremendous change that technology is bringing in, in our day to day to lives. The pace of change was not like this even in the last decade and probably will be way more accelerated in the next decade. Even at the beginning of this decade most banks and financial services avoided anything open source and vendor viability was one of [...]

            India’s impact in Latin America beyond exports

            2019-02-15T14:49:43+00:00February 13th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – February 2019, Home Page|

            A former ambassador traces the evolution of Indo-Latin American economic relations. The economic relations of India with Latin America have evolved in three stages, as in many Bollywood film stories: started with mutual ignorance, ran into occasional flirtation and climaxed in romance. In the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies, it was a period of mutual ignorance and indifference. India was grappling with its own survival as an independent country in the process of consolidating itself as a democracy with diverse languages, [...]

              India renews influence in its neighbourhood

              2019-02-15T14:37:15+00:00February 13th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – February 2019|

              A strategic expert analyses what India’s foreign policy highlights were in 2018 and where things are headed in 2019. Although the year 2018 was not marked by any major foreign policy developments – unlike previous signature events including India’s sponsorship of the UN’s International Yoga Day (2015), the surgical strikes across the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir (2016) and the first Indian prime ministerial visit to Israel (2017) – India’s ability to effectively navigate through the uncertainties and disruptions [...]