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Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

CFA Society Bahrain and Ahli United Bank collaborate in women-led mentorship programme & amp podcast

December 8, 2020

CFA Society Bahrain, in collaboration with Ahli United Bank, has launched a transformational mentorship programme entitled Qodwa. Initiated and chaired…

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Executive Moves

Holborn Appoints Group Chief Financial Officer

December 8, 2020

Holborn Assets, which has locally regulated offices in the U.K., Asia, UAE and South Africa, has hired a new group…

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Regulation, Risk & Compliance

Central Bank of Egypt extends tourism, retail loan initiatives to 2021 end

December 8, 2020

The Central Bank of Egypt has decided to extend the validity period of its initiative to support the tourism sector…

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Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

Turkey is the odd one out in CEE’s primary equity revival

December 8, 2020

Emerging Europe has been enjoying a mini-boom in IPOs.   Poland, Russia and Kazakhstan have produced deals worth $1 billion…

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FinTech

Investcorp portfolio company ABAX acquires Automile

December 8, 2020

Positions ABAX as second largest company in the European telematics market  Investcorp, has announced that its portfolio company ABAX has…

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Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

Egypt steps up support for exporting companies

December 8, 2020

Egypt’s Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait said that the government has distributed EGP 28 billion ($1.78 billion) in export subsidies…

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Financial Results

Provisioning grows faster than credit in Qatar banks in Oct: QCB

December 8, 2020

Qatar’s banking sector saw provisioning grow faster year-on-year than the total credit this October, indicating the conservative approach of the…

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Comment & Analysis

New Microsoft research: Is hybrid work here to stay?

December 8, 2020

Microsoft has released its Work Reworked study for 2020, which has found that almost all (97 percent) of business leaders…

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Financial Results

Experts confident of Saudi construction sector returning to normal soon

December 8, 2020

The total value of construction contracts awarded in Saudi Arabia during the third quarter (Q3) of this year collapsed by…

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Executive Moves

APCO Worldwide reinforces MENA leadership team

December 8, 2020

APCO Worldwide have reinforced its leadership team in the MENA region with the appointment of two senior leaders to new…

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FinTech

Codebase and AMF publish Mena open banking report

December 8, 2020

Codebase Technologies along with the Arab Monetary Fund and the MENA Fintech Association have published a report on an “Open…

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FinTech

French digital payments company IDEMIA snaps up Saudi company

December 8, 2020

A digital payment enabling company, IDEMIA, has acquired Pcard, a card personalisation bureau in Saudi Arabia. The former will now…

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