Company Insights Mubadala Investment Company Finance Mubadala Investment Company News Tech MGX makes $2bn crypto investment in Binance UAE technology investment company MGX has invested $2 billion-worth of stablecoins into Binance, the world’s largest exchange for digital tokens by trading volume and users, according to a statement. Binance said on Wednesday that acquisition of a minority stake in MGX is the “biggest-ever” injection of funds into a crypto company, the largest investment ever […] March 13, 2025 Infrastructure Project finance central to funding Gulf infrastructure Financing a project and project finance are not necessarily the same thing. Irrespective, project finance is as important as ever in the Gulf in funding billions of dollars of infrastructure projects, from energy and water schemes to data centres and battery storage facilities, according to experts. Abbas Hussein, global head of infrastructure and development finance […] March 13, 2025 Finance Mubadala-Alpha Dhabi JV raises credit target by 150% A joint venture between Mubadala Investment Company, one of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth funds, and the holding company Alpha Dhabi Holding has raised its target for deploying funds into private credit by 150 percent. The joint venture said it wanted to invest up to $2.5 billion in credit by 2028, after reaching $1 billion since […] March 11, 2025 Finance Mubadala sells stake in UK smart meter provider Calisen Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company has completed the sale of its indirect stake in Calisen, a UK supplier of energy smart meters. Private equity infrastructure investors EQT and Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC will buy Calisen in a deal that values the company at around $5 billion. Mubadala, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs […] March 10, 2025 Oil & Gas Adnoc targets foreign listing of investment arm XRG Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) is considering listing its international investment arm XRG on an exchange outside of the UAE, three people with knowledge of the matter said. This could potentially create one of the largest listed energy companies in the world. The discussions to list a minority stake of XRG, which was established late […] March 10, 2025 Aviation Airbus weighs production of military aircraft parts in UAE European planemaker Airbus is exploring the possibility of manufacturing components and setting up a maintenance facility for the A400M, a military transport aircraft, in the UAE. The plan includes integrating local entities – including EPI, part of defence company Edge Group, and Strata, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi investment vehicle Mubadala – into the A400M’s global aerospace […] March 5, 2025 Finance UAE interest in crypto jumps after Trump’s ‘strategic reserve’ call Interest in cryptocurrencies has accelerated in the UAE after a rally in prices that followed President Donald Trump’s announcement of plans to create a so-called crypto strategic reserve. Online searches for bitcoin prices in the UAE more than doubled following Trump’s announcement on his Truth Social platform at the weekend, data from Google Trends showed. […] March 4, 2025 Petrochemicals Adnoc and OMV seal deal for $60bn chemicals JV Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) and Austria’s energy group OMV have agreed to merge their polyolefin operations to form a $60 billion joint venture. Borouge Group International (BGI) will be the world’s fourth largest by nameplate production capacity, the UAE company said. BGI will acquire Canada-headquartered Nova Chemicals Corporation from Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund […] March 4, 2025 Health Waha Capital to expand UAE health business Abu Dhabi’s Waha Capital, a listed company with $3.2 billion of assets under management, plans to expand its healthcare business in the UAE, and could make acquisitions to do so. The company aims to tap demand from the emirates’ expanding population and visitors from India, its chief financial officer said. Waha is part-owned by Abu […] February 19, 2025 Banking & Finance Mubadala puts $436m into BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF Mubadala has invested $436 million in BlackRock’s bitcoin exchange-traded fund. The Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund acquired 8.2 million shares in the iShares bitcoin ETF during the fourth quarter of 2024, according to Mubadala’s latest filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. iShares, managed by BlackRock, is one of the world’s largest providers of […] February 17, 2025 Posts navigation Previous 1 … 3 4 5 … 34 Next
Tech MGX makes $2bn crypto investment in Binance UAE technology investment company MGX has invested $2 billion-worth of stablecoins into Binance, the world’s largest exchange for digital tokens by trading volume and users, according to a statement. Binance said on Wednesday that acquisition of a minority stake in MGX is the “biggest-ever” injection of funds into a crypto company, the largest investment ever […] March 13, 2025
Infrastructure Project finance central to funding Gulf infrastructure Financing a project and project finance are not necessarily the same thing. Irrespective, project finance is as important as ever in the Gulf in funding billions of dollars of infrastructure projects, from energy and water schemes to data centres and battery storage facilities, according to experts. Abbas Hussein, global head of infrastructure and development finance […] March 13, 2025
Finance Mubadala-Alpha Dhabi JV raises credit target by 150% A joint venture between Mubadala Investment Company, one of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth funds, and the holding company Alpha Dhabi Holding has raised its target for deploying funds into private credit by 150 percent. The joint venture said it wanted to invest up to $2.5 billion in credit by 2028, after reaching $1 billion since […] March 11, 2025
Finance Mubadala sells stake in UK smart meter provider Calisen Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company has completed the sale of its indirect stake in Calisen, a UK supplier of energy smart meters. Private equity infrastructure investors EQT and Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC will buy Calisen in a deal that values the company at around $5 billion. Mubadala, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs […] March 10, 2025
Oil & Gas Adnoc targets foreign listing of investment arm XRG Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) is considering listing its international investment arm XRG on an exchange outside of the UAE, three people with knowledge of the matter said. This could potentially create one of the largest listed energy companies in the world. The discussions to list a minority stake of XRG, which was established late […] March 10, 2025
Aviation Airbus weighs production of military aircraft parts in UAE European planemaker Airbus is exploring the possibility of manufacturing components and setting up a maintenance facility for the A400M, a military transport aircraft, in the UAE. The plan includes integrating local entities – including EPI, part of defence company Edge Group, and Strata, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi investment vehicle Mubadala – into the A400M’s global aerospace […] March 5, 2025
Finance UAE interest in crypto jumps after Trump’s ‘strategic reserve’ call Interest in cryptocurrencies has accelerated in the UAE after a rally in prices that followed President Donald Trump’s announcement of plans to create a so-called crypto strategic reserve. Online searches for bitcoin prices in the UAE more than doubled following Trump’s announcement on his Truth Social platform at the weekend, data from Google Trends showed. […] March 4, 2025
Petrochemicals Adnoc and OMV seal deal for $60bn chemicals JV Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) and Austria’s energy group OMV have agreed to merge their polyolefin operations to form a $60 billion joint venture. Borouge Group International (BGI) will be the world’s fourth largest by nameplate production capacity, the UAE company said. BGI will acquire Canada-headquartered Nova Chemicals Corporation from Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund […] March 4, 2025
Health Waha Capital to expand UAE health business Abu Dhabi’s Waha Capital, a listed company with $3.2 billion of assets under management, plans to expand its healthcare business in the UAE, and could make acquisitions to do so. The company aims to tap demand from the emirates’ expanding population and visitors from India, its chief financial officer said. Waha is part-owned by Abu […] February 19, 2025
Banking & Finance Mubadala puts $436m into BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF Mubadala has invested $436 million in BlackRock’s bitcoin exchange-traded fund. The Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund acquired 8.2 million shares in the iShares bitcoin ETF during the fourth quarter of 2024, according to Mubadala’s latest filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. iShares, managed by BlackRock, is one of the world’s largest providers of […] February 17, 2025