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CREALOGIX launches Conversational Banking as SaaS solution to help drive customer loyalty

August 25, 2020

When secure and self-contained processes are developed in digital and mobile banking using the same formats, the focus is squarely…

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Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

Bahrain's GFH Financial picks up majority in Global Banking Corp.

August 25, 2020

GFH Financial Group has acquired an additional 21.8 per cent stake in Global Banking Corporation (GB Corp), which gives it…

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Comment & Analysis

Abu Dhabi comes back to bond market with three-part dollar issue

August 25, 2020

Abu Dhabi started marketing on Tuesday a U.S. dollar-denominated bond offering split into three tranches of three, 10 and a…

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Comment & Analysis

Ahmad Abu Eideh, CEO, United Arab Bank

August 25, 2020

On ensuring banking resilience and the increasing importance of digitalisation in the post-Covid-19 world.   In what ways has Covid-19…

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Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

UAE- Noor Takaful, Ajman Bank enter strategic partnership

August 25, 2020

The UAE's second-largest Islamic insurance entity, Noor Takaful (a Dar Al Takaful company), has entered a strategic partnership with Ajman…

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Comment & Analysis

Family silver next in line in Turkey’s debt crunch

August 25, 2020

The fresh currency turbulence in Turkey saw the price of the US dollar rise about 11% in two weeks earlier…

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Investment Banking

GFH takes majority stake in GB Corp

August 25, 2020

GFH Financial Group (GFH) has announced that it has acquired an additional 21.8% stake in Global Banking Corporation (GB Corp)…

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Fraud & Ethics

The Quiet Man in Stockholm Who Laundered China’s Oil Money for Iran

August 25, 2020

By all outward appearances, Hatam Khatoun Nema was a small-time money changer working from a nondescript office in Järfälla, a…

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Comment & Analysis

Behind the Scenes at the Major MENA Startup Summit That Went Virtu

August 24, 2020

Founded in 2013 in Egypt, RiseUp became a grassroots movement that spread across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)…

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Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

QFCRA agrees settlement with GlobeMed Qatar

August 24, 2020

The Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority announced yesterday that it has agreed a settlement with GlobeMed Qatar LLC on misunderstandings…

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Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

Qatar First Bank completes $41mn acquisition of a Texas property

August 24, 2020

Qatar First Bank (QFB) has completed a $41mn acquisition of Varsity Brands, a three story, 135,0000 square foot building in…

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Executive Moves

SAMI names Eng. Walid Abukhaled as CEO

August 24, 2020

The Board of Directors of Saudi Arabian Military Industries has appointed Eng. Walid Abukhaled as CEO of the company.   …

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