UAE Companies Editor, Gulf Business Review
Layla Al Mansoori covers UAE companies, investment and trade, with close attention to how group-level announcements translate into operating activity in individual emirates.
The beat is reported from official statistics, regulator publications, company filings and named institutional research. Forecasts, commitments and completed outcomes are labelled separately.
Layla's UAE coverage keeps corporate group announcements tied to the place where activity actually occurs. Abu Dhabi, Dubai, individual free zones and the wider federation can represent different legal, regulatory and operating contexts, so she avoids turning an emirate-level development into a national claim without evidence.
She also follows the distance between investment language and delivery. Partnerships, memoranda, capital commitments and operating assets are treated as different stages, with company disclosures and official records used to establish what has moved from announcement into commercial activity.
A maintained research index connecting Gulf sovereign wealth funds, state-backed companies and major projects while separating commitments from delivered assets.
A sourced tracker of major UAE data-centre and AI infrastructure projects, including Stargate UAE, Khazna and Microsoft-G42 capacity.
Talabat's Q2 2026 results show the scale of its eight-market MENA delivery platform. We examine revenue, GMV, customer density and what growth means in the Gulf.
The Central Bank of the UAE and Core42 are building dedicated cloud infrastructure for the financial sector, turning data sovereignty and operational resilience into shared financial infrastructure.
Central-bank projections point to continued growth; recorded national accounts remain the evidence for what occurred.
Bank balance sheets can expand through property, government entities, households or private companies, with very different implications for the economy.
Group structure, free-zone status and qualifying income require facts at legal-entity level, not broad labels.
The central bank expects contained inflation, while rent and imported costs can differ sharply by emirate and company.
Announced, awarded, under-construction and completed projects create different revenue outcomes.
A large trade total confirms the federation's hub role; re-exports, domestic production and logistics services create different economic value.
How UAE population growth is changing demand for housing, transport, services and business infrastructure, using official population evidence and capacity indicators.
Finance, manufacturing and construction support the expansion, but federal output cannot be read as a Dubai-only measure.