Full foreign ownership of UAE firms set to go live
From 1 June, non-Emiratis will be able to own 100% of businesses based in the UAE, the ministry of finance…
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Bahrain ‘ready to implement open banking’
It’s all systems go for implementation of open banking in the country, the Central Bank of Bahrain announced yesterday. …
Arab Financial Services and Discover sign network alliance agreement
Arab Financial Services and Discover have signed a strategic network alliance agreement that will increase the global acceptance footprint for…
Farringdon AM sets up financial advice firm in Dubai
Farringdon Asset Management has set up a separately-capitalised category 4 retail financial advisory business in the Dubai International Financial Centre…
Qatar Investment Authority mulls injecting HSBC headquarters into Singapore Reit
Qatar Investment Authority is in talks to inject HSBC Holdings Plc's London headquarters building into a planned property trust being…
UAE to allow 100% foreign ownership of companies in June
Foreigners opening a company in the UAE will no longer need an Emirati shareholder or agent under changes to the…
UAE regulator revokes investment firm's licence
The UAE Central Bank said on 18 May it had struck UAE-based S&S Brokerage House off its register after imposing…
Bahrain probes $1.3bn Iranian money laundering network
Bahrain’s attorney general said that public prosecutors had uncovered a $1.3 billion money laundering racket linked to officials at Future…
Bahrain-based banks are ready for Open Banking
The Central Bank of Bahrain has announced the progress made by retail banks in Bahrain on complying with the Bahrain…
UAE struggles with new rule to get women on company boards
Getting more women on corporate boards in the United Arab Emirates was never going to be easy, and the numbers…
State bodies, investors and civil society make case for more women on boards of Turkish firms
Joint action to increase the number of women on boards of Turkish firms Inclusion of women on boards linked to…
Egypt’s e-payments to suppliers, state worker salaries record EGP 628bn, EGP 377bn respectively
Egypt’s Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait has announced that electronic payments (e-payments) made in the past 23 months to suppliers…