Shuaa Capital was once known as the UAE's biggest investment bank, but it has been four years since it turned an annual profit. In that time it has accumulated losses of almost Dh2 billion (US$544.4 million) - or about twice as much as it made in the previous four years.
The travails of the company, which generated just Dh6.8m of revenue from its investment banking operation last year, chronicles the Catch-22 of the regional industry, whose fortunes have been so closely tied to the ebb and flow of local stock markets - which have offered more ebb than flow for the past three years.
Shuaa hopes to turn its ailing business around by focusing on areas where it believes it has a market advantage - asset management, corporate advisory, small and medium enterprise finance and institutional brokerage.
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