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Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia

  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    News in-depthArtificial intelligence
    Can the Gulf really become an AI superpower?

    Saudi Arabia and UAE plough billions into infrastructure but need more talent and start-ups

    Montage of Donald Trump between the flags of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    News in-depthArtificial intelligence
    Saudi Arabia seeks to use financial might to muscle into global AI industry

    PIF-backed Humain courts US tech investors and plans $10bn venture fund

    Tareq Amin, chief executive of Humain
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia launches AI venture Humain ahead of Trump visit

    Riyadh’s latest multibillion-dollar push will bring new focus to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s tech ambitions

    Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sitting inside a tent in Al Ula, Saudi Arabia in January 2025
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi companies retrench after fall in oil prices

    Businesses seek new revenue streams and brace for slowdown as lower crude weighs on government spending

    The King Abdullah Financial District metro station in Riyadh
  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    Wealth management
    Wealth manager Stanhope Capital plans Saudi expansion

    London-centred firm to partner with bank owned by country’s Public Investment Fund

    An aerial view of Riyadh
  • Sunday, 20 April, 2025
    Saudi Arabia ‘gigaproject’ stonewalls settlement offer from ex-CEO in $120mn lawsuit

    British-born executive was fired in April 2024 sparking claim seen as test case for kingdom’s reforms

    Roshn’s Almanar development
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    Games industry
    Saudi-owned Scopely buys Pokémon Go in $3.5bn gaming deal

    US-based Niantic is selling its games business as part of a pivot to artificial intelligence

    Hand holding a cell phone playing Pokémon Go game in footpath
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    PwC
    PwC and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund clash over hiring of executive

    ‘Friction and angst’ over Neom auditor preceded Public Investment Fund’s ban on Big Four firm

    graphic showing Neom, a futuristic development along the Red Sea
  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    Saudi Arabian group buys controlling stake in Singapore commodities trader

    Gulf state aims to secure critical food supply chains and reduce reliance on imports

    A person walks through a warehouse filled with large, stacked burlap sacks of cashews
  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2025
    Saudi Arabia’s PIF seeks to evict Benko family from Innsbruck mansion

    Demand by one of Signa Group’s largest creditors comes after property entrepreneur arrested for alleged embezzlement

    Rene Benko
  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    Media
    Saudi Arabia strikes $1bn deal with Leonard Blavatnik’s sports streaming business

    Surj Sports Investment will take stake in DAZN and help fund a Middle East broadcasting joint venture

    A DAZN camera operator films boxer Troy Pilcher during a WBO global heavyweight title fight in July last year
  • Friday, 7 February, 2025
    Golf
    PGA Tour says Trump has brought it closer to golf deal with Saudi fund

    US organiser credits president with helping efforts to forge accord focused on rival LIV Golf series

    Joaquin Niemann tees off in the first LIV Golf event of the year in Riyadh
  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Starmer to visit Saudi Arabia and UAE to try to secure investment

    UK prime minister is seeking billions of pounds of Gulf money to boost British growth

    Keir Starmer and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    Middle Eastern companies
    UK construction executive sues Saudi-owned developer for $100mn

    David Grover has brought a lawsuit in Riyadh against PIF-backed Roshn claiming bonuses and performance payments

    An aerial view of the Jeddah skyline
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Saudi Arabia
    Neom mega-project boss abruptly replaced in Saudi Arabia

    Nadhmi al-Nasr leaves after six years in charge of $500bn desert development

    Aerial view of a futuristic, hexagonal water city with grid-like structures, surrounded by ocean and set against a desert landscape at sunset
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Rutherford Hall
    There’s nothing scarier than Elon at your front door with a large thermometer

    A behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

    Cartoon of a man in navy suit and open necked pink shirt, wearing glasses and holding a mobile phone
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Chinese business & finance
    China to issue first dollar bond in three years in Saudi Arabia

    Choice of the kingdom highlights deepening financial ties between the two countries

    Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Selfridges & Co Ltd
    Losses for owner of Selfridges more than double

    Higher finance costs offset jump in sales at upmarket global department store group Cambridge Retail

    People carry Selfridges bags, on a shopping street, during the traditional Boxing Day sales
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Due Diligence
    Public Investment Fund’s desert mirage Premium content

    Plus, why Topgolf is parting with its owner and HSBC‘s boss says it isn’t splitting up

    A delegate films on their mobile phone as Governor of Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia Yasir Al-Rumayyan appears on a screen
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund pivots from international investments

    Public Investment Fund will focus more of its financial firepower on domestic projects

    Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Lucid Motors
    Lucid introduces electric SUV as start-up seeks to reverse stock slide

    Saudi-backed automaker hopes Gravity model will broaden its customer appeal and boost earnings

    A Lucid Gravity Grand Touring SUV is driving across a suspension bridge
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    Saudi Arabia tightens its belt

    After eight years of whirlwind construction activity and unprecedented spending, the kingdom’s new watchword is prudence

    Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    UK retail industry
    Thai Central Group brings Saudi fund PIF into Selfridges

    Deal for stake in department store and property business across three countries follows collapse of Signa

    The exterior of Selfridges department store in London, with its grand columns and holiday decorations.
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2024
    Sport
    Sports group backed by Saudi wealth fund seeks stake in European basketball

    EuroLeague is looking to sell minority holding worth €1bn, but PIF’s SURJ firm faces competition from BC Partners

    A EuroLeague quarter-final between FC Barcelona and Olympiakos Piraeus in Barcelona earlier this year
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Saudi Arabia is keeping it in the kingdom

    The country’s wealth fund shifts its focus to domestic spending and away from foreign investments.

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