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  Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates NBD, one of the leading banking groups in the region, was awarded ‘Best Mobile Banking Experience’ for its superior mobile app, reinforcing Emirates NBD’s strides in the digitisation of banking, at the recently held Smart Cards & Payments Middle East Awards 2016. The bank’s mobile app was recognised for its widely used services including ...

  Bloomberg Batteries capable of storing power at utility scale will be as widespread in 12 years as rooftop solar panels are now, revolutionizing the way consumers use energy. That’s the the conclusion of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, which forecasts the battery market may be valued at $250 billion or more by 2040. It expects 25 gigawatts of the devices ...

  Bloomberg The FBI let the Orlando mass-shooting suspect slip through its grasp despite interviewing him twice since 2013 due to a lack of evidence to hold him, a troubling fact that will pressure officials struggling to detect lone terrorists without eroding basic civil liberties. The FBI is investigating Sunday’s killing spree at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, as an ...

  Bloomberg Prime Minister David Cameron turned to his traditional rivals in the opposition Labour Party to win over undecided voters with just 10 days to stop Britain from voting to leave the European Union. Gordon Brown, who was ousted by Cameron in 2010, was to make the case to stay in the 28-nation bloc, and other media interventions have ...

  Beijing / Bloomberg German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang sought to limit conflict over trade during talks overshadowed by angst in Germany about a Chinese company’s 4.6 billion-euro ($5.2 billion) bid for robot maker Kuka AG. “We don’t want a trade war,” Li told reporters in Beijing on Monday after the two leaders presided over ...

  Bloomberg As the U.K. agonizes over its relationship with Europe, the Bank of England is readying for turmoil. With just 10 days before a referendum that could see Britain withdraw from the European Union, central bankers are putting the defenses in place to shore up market confidence and the financial system if that happens. Tuesday will see the first ...

  Bloomberg Jean-Claude Juncker and Vladimir Putin may offer clues about the way forward for a controversial project to expand Russia’s gas interconnections with Europe this week. The European Commission president meets the Russian leader at a conference in St. Petersburg and may discuss ways a Gazprom PJSC-led consortium could be allowed to double the capacity of the Nord Stream ...

  Brussels / AFP Britain leaving the European Union would strip the bloc of a nuclear-armed global player and prove “disastrous” for its presence on the world stage, analysts say. The timing could hardly be worse, as the EU struggles with its biggest migration crisis since World War II and the continent facing a growing threat from terrorism fuelled by conflict ...

  Tokyo / Tribune News Service Japan’s Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry has decided on a plan to relax the floor area ratio of buildings by 1.5 times, or up to an additional 300 percent, depending on respective conditions. The move is so that hotels can be rebuilt as bigger hotels on the same land area, The Yomiuri Shimbun ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in its continued quest to harness a robust and competitive business environment, has now commenced the evaluation of applications for both the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Award and the newly launched 1st edition of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Award. The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum ...