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July 6, 2021 6 in 10 Saudi Consumers Expect to Return to Pre-COVID Normality in the Next 6 Months

Alternative shopping options like Click & Collect, curb-side pickup (46%) and contactless In-Store experience like self-checkouts(27%) will be key to rebuilding Saudi consumers’ confidence to visit public places (stores and supermarkets) movin...

July 1, 2021 Emirates Business Rewards Programme Celebrates Small and Medium Sized Businesses with Limited Time Incentive

Emirates is empowering small and medium sized enterprises to get back into the skies and turn their travel budgets into rewards by debuting a Business Rewards incentive for new members who sign up for the programme. Small and medium sized business...

June 29, 2021 Digitalisation and Sustainability Are Top Priorities For Consumers in the Middle East, PwC Report Says

PwC Middle East launched the Middle East findings of the 2021 Global Consumer Insights Survey titled “More digital and sustainable: post pandemic priorities for Middle East consumers” which takes a look at how consumer behaviour has changed as a ...

June 25, 2021 DEWA’s Redesigned Building Facilities & Services for People of Determination Support Dubai’s Urban Environment

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) supports the design of the urban environment, and the people of Dubai, and the empowerment of People of Determination to become more productive and effective. This is done by providing its Customers and...

June 22, 2021 CBUAE Governor and Bank CEOs Discuss Continued Support to the UAE Economy

His Excellency Khaled Mohamed Balama, Governor of the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), today held a meeting with the CEOs of all banks operating in the UAE to discuss the macroeconomic environment, provide the CBUAE’s assessment of financial stabi...

June 11, 2021 The Women that Run Big Business in Africa

Africa.com undertook a rigorous research project to identify not just high profile personalities, but the women who actually run the largest, most complex businesses on the African continent. The result is called The Africa.com Definitive List of ...

June 9, 2021 Mastercard Foundation to Deploy $1.3 Billion in Partnership with Africa CDC to Save Lives and Livelihoods

The Mastercard Foundation has announced that it will deploy $1.3 billion over the next three years in partnership with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to save the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Af...

June 4, 2021 Ghana: African Development Bank Group Supports Risk-based Supervision for Capital Markets

The African Development Bank Group and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Ghana today launched a $400,000 project to strengthen the development of Ghanaian capital markets. This follows the signing of a grant agreement to develop a ri...

June 2, 2021 Path Solutions Successfully Completes System Upgrade at KFH

Path Solutions, the global Islamic banking software company, today announced that Kuwait Finance House (“KFH”), Kuwait’s Islamic banking pioneer has successfully completed the upgrade of its fully automated STP Islamic Treasury solution to the new...

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