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Qatar’s overseas investment portfolio is growing and the country is expected to spend tens of billions of dollars in the year ahead as it expands its investments around the world, a UAE-based English daily said.

Fuelled by the largest exports of liquefied natural gas in the world, the country is already well known for its recent acquisitions of trophy assets such as the London department store Harrods and a stake in a fund that owns most of the posh business towers of the city’s Canary Wharf.

By Bradley Hope, The National

Qatar is expected to spend tens of billions of dollars in the year ahead as it expands its investments around the world.

Fuelled by the largest exports of liquefied natural gas in the world, the country is already well known for its recent acquisitions of trophy assets such as the London department store Harrods and a stake in a fund that owns most of the posh business towers of the city's Canary Wharf.

By Regan E. Doherty, Reuters

Robust appetite for Qatari paper has led a wide spectrum of the country's companies to tap debt markets recently, with a slew of further issuances expected in coming months, bankers said on Thursday.

The Gulf state has seen a flurry of new issues in recent months as companies seized strong international demand for Qatari debt, with many issues substantially oversubscribed.

استحوذ كيوإنفست، البنك الاستثماري الرائد في قطر، على نسبة 28% من شركة "معارض ومؤتمرات الأعمال الآسيوية المحدودة" (ABECL)، الشركة الهندية الرائدة في تنظيم المعارض والمؤتمرات.

أثبتت شركة ABECL حضورها القوي كلاعب رائد في قطاع المعارض التجارية الذي ينمو بسرعة في الهند. تضم محفظتها أكثر من 15 معرضاً يتكون من 65 فعالية في 9 قطاعات اعمال مختلفة لا تتعارض و أحكام الشريعة الإسلامية، من ضمنها معارض عالمية المستوى مثل " ACETech ". وتعدّ ABECL رائدة أيضاً في تنظيم المعارض المتعلقة بقطاعات التعليم والعقارات.

Growing platforms and strategic partnerships are generating growth

Having a vision of becoming the leading global Islamic investment bank is a bold statement. And when you’ve only been in existence for only three years operating on a regional landscape with some established players, such ambitions may be considered idealistic and overly ambitious.

But when you are the leading investment bank in the State of Qatar, and part of that country’s drive to create a world class financial services sector, visions and ambitions take on a whole new meaning.

• 350 مشاركاً من 30 بلداً يحضرون أكبر منتدى للإستثمار خلال هذا العام

• هيئة مركز قطر المالي يرعى المنتدى

رحب كيوإنفست، البنك الاستثماري الرائد في قطر، بأكثر من 350 من صانعي القرار من الخبراء في صناعة وتمويل الأعمال المصرفية في منتدى المستثمر العالمي الثاني في قطر

2010 والذي يستضيفه سعادة الشيخ جاسم بن حمد بن جبر آل ثاني، رئيس مجلس إدارة كيوإنفست.

With the global recession laying many countries’ financial systems bare, Islamic Finance is becoming ever more attractive to weakened economiesIslamic Finance experienced exponential growth in the 1980s and is nowadays enjoying another ‘rebirth’ as banks in Western countries begin offering more and more Shariah-compliant financial services.

أعلنت "مايكروسوفت قطر" يوم الاثنين الموافق 18/10/2010 أن "بنك كيو انفست"، بنك الاستثمار الإسلامي الرائد في قطر يعتزم اعتماد Microsoft Exchange Server 2010، وذلك في إطار خطته الاستراتيجية لتعزيز استمرارية أعماله الرئيسية وبنيته التحتية التقنية.

وبذلك، يصبح البنك أول مؤسسة قطرية تعتمد الإصدار الأحدث من هذه المنصة، كجزء من جهودها الرامية إلى تحقيق مستويات جديدة من الموثوقية، والأداء، والتعاون المتكامل والاتصال والتواصل.

QInvest, the leading investment bank in Qatar, offers a new perspective in investment banking, investment management, brokerage

and wealth management. The Bank is increasing its geographic and business footprint, in tandem with Qatar’s expanding role as a

regional financial centre.

 

In 2010, QInvest, acquired a 24% stake in Ambit Group, giving it access to position in the rapidly growing Indian market. That

followed its strategic investment in 2009 of 47% stake in the London-based stockbroker Panmure Gordon. Together with its strategic

كلف مصرف قطر الاسلامي (المصرف)، المصنف من قبل مؤسسة فتش (Fitch) كل من كريدي سويس (Credit Suisse) و HSBC وكيوانفست (QInvest) كمدراء وامناء سجل عملية اصدار صكوك بالدولار الامريكي مصدرة وفق معايير Reg S.

يتوقع اصدار الصطوك المذكورة بعد الاخذ بعين الاعتبار تقلبات السوق وبعد عرضها ابتداء من تاريخ 24 سبتمبر 2010 على مجموعة من المستثمرين في منطقة الشرق الاوسط واسيا واوروبا.

Islamic Finance has been growing at twice the rate of conventional financing in the region because of the increasing range of financial instruments and services that are now more readily available. 

 

By Regan E. Doherty

• CEO sees improvement in regional IPO market by Q4 

• Firm optimistic about India as investment destination 

• Recent domestic bond issuance by Qatar "a good first step"

Qatari investment bank QInvest expects initial public offerings (IPO) in the region to revive during the second half of this year, particularly in the fourth-quarter, the company's CEO Shahzad Shahbaz said.

QInvest, Qatar’s leading investment bank, has acquired a 40.8% stake in Intercat Hospitality and Butlers Dry Cleaning and Laundry Services (the “Group”), one of the UAE’s leading outsourced business services companies. 

QInvest, Qatar’s leading investment bank, has agreed to make a strategic investment in Ambit Group for a 25% stake in the firm, subject to regulatory approval. QInvest’s CEO, Shahzad Shahbaz, will join Ambit’s board.

This represents QInvest’s first investment in India and underpins the bank’s focus on the rapidly growing Indian market. In addition, QInvest will commit incremental capital to various funds managed by Ambit Group.

QInvest and Fortis Bank Nederland today signed a joint venture agreement and each committed US$ 50 million to the QInvest-Fortis Bank Nederland Shipping Fund (the Fund), making it the world’s first Sharia’a compliant ship financing fund.

Jointly managed by QInvest and Fortis Bank Nederland through QF Investment Management, the Fund will soon be opened to third party subscriptions.