5th Technology Investment Meeting
The technology investment meeting (TIM2023) is an international event with the aim of attracting capital to accelerate Knowledge-based companies, Startups and other investees from member countries of the “D-8”, Group of Eight Islamic Developing Countries. The fifth round of the meeting hosted by “Pardis” Technology Park will be held on February 26th and 27th. This […]
Foreign investment promotion and protection act (FIPPA)
PART 1 Definitions The terms and expressions used in this Act shall have the following meanings: Act: The Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act. Foreign Investor: Non-Iranian natural and/or juridical persons or Iranians using capital with foreign origin, who have obtained the Investment Foreign Capital: Various types of capital, whether in cash and/or in-kind, imported […]
WHAT INVESTORS WANT
What Investors Want: Four basic points that we can learn from this article and the examples the guiding principles of investment decision making are: 1- more benefits, in the form of profits or cash flow, are preferred to less 2- near-term benefits are preferred to more distant benefits 3- safe investments are preferred to risky […]
D-8 and Islamic Development bank (IsDB) agree to strengthen existing cooperation
D-8 Secretary-General Ambassador Dato’ Ku Jaafar Ku Shaari visited the headquarters of the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah on 7thAugust, 2019 and met with the Vice president, Country program H.E Dr. Mansur Mukhtar. The Secretary-General thanks the Vice President of hosting him on behalf of the President of bank, H.E Dr. Bandar Hajjar and appreciated […]
MUSIAD delegation visits the D-8 Secretary-General
A delegation headed by the Chairman of International Trade and Cooperation Commission of Independent Industrialists and Businessmen Association (MUSIAD), Mr. Mehmet Zeki Guvercin, paid a courtesy call to the Secretary-General of the D-8 on 5th September, 2019 at the D-8 Secretariat in Istanbul, Turkey. The Secretary-General welcomed the MUSIAD to the Secretariat and exchanged pleasantries […]
42nd Session of the D-8 Commission held from 09-10 October in Istanbul, Republic of Turkey
D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation convened its 42nd Session of the Commission and the last session of the Commission under Turkey’s chairmanship from 09-10 October, 2019 in Istanbul Turkey. The meeting was chaired by the D-8 Commissioner and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey H.E Ambassador Faruk Kaymakci and co-chaired by the Alternate Commissioner […]
D-8 Workshop on International Investment Agreements Reform
“Workshop for D-8 Countries on International Investment Agreements Reform for Sustainable Development” jointly organized by D-8 Secretariat and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), in cooperation with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and Turkish Coordination and Cooperation Agency (TIKA) was held from 12-13 September, 2019 in D-8 Headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey. Leading experts […]
Gobi Partners to back Pakistani startups with new fund
Venture capital firm Gobi Partners has partnered with Fatima Ventures, the investment arm of Pakistan-based Fatima Group, to launch a US$20 million fund to back early stage tech companies in Pakistan.
