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DUBAI / WAM The UAE is the biggest trade partner of Hong Kong in the Middle East, as the value of the non-oil trade exchange between the two countries accounted for $8.9 billion in 2017, with 5.1 percent annual growth compared to 2016, Juma Al Keet, Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Trade Affairs at the UAE Ministry of Economy (MoE) said ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Matar Salim Ali Al Dhaheri, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, on Tuesday received Lt General Sir John Lorimer, UK’s Defence Senior Adviser on the Middle East, and his accompanying delegation. Al Dhaheri welcomed Lt General Lorimer and praised the relations between the UAE and UK which he said are witnessing great development across various sectors. ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business From facial recognition and iris scans, to crypto currency, the UAE’s banking and finance security innovation is driving the GCC’s cybersecurity market to $8 billion in 2018, industry experts said. UAE banks are rapidly deploying multi-factor authentication to confirm a person’s identity, with several factors, such as a smartphone, a password, and a facial scan. The ...

LONDON / WAM UAE-linked Petrofac, a leading international service provider to the oil and gas production and processing industry, has secured new orders worth $1.8 billion in the first half of 2018, according to an update released to the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday. “We are trading in line with expectations, delivering best-in-class project execution, continued momentum in new orders ...

DUBAI / WAM It is estimated that Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) contribute 40 percent to Dubai’s GDP and employ 42 percent of the total workforce, said Fahad Al Gergawi, CEO of Dubai Investment Development Agency (Dubai FDI). In a statement released on the occasion of ‘Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day’, which is observed on June 27, Al Gergawi, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International Financial Centre in Abu Dhabi, and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) signed a cooperation agreement on Tuesday to jointly promote and enable financial services innovation, and accelerate cross-border FinTech business opportunities in Hong Kong and the UAE. With this agreement, ADGM has established strategic FinTech collaborations with eleven leading ...

KATHMANDU / WAM The UAE is the third largest exporter to Nepal as the trade exchange between the two countries amounted to $425.2 million in 2017, a 14.4 percent annual growth compared to 2016, Abdullah Salih Al Salih, Under-Secretary of the UAE Ministry of Economy for Foreign Trade Affairs, said. Speaking on Monday at the opening ceremony of the UAE-Nepal ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM With the objective of providing deeper insights on its cyber threat intelligence sharing platform, the UAE Banks Federation (UBF), on Tuesday hosted a workshop on ‘TASHARUK’ for its member banks in Abu Dhabi. Organised by the UBF’s Information Security Committee for the heads of information and cyber security within the banks in the UAE, the workshop ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Matar Salim Ali Al Dhaheri, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, on Tuesday received Lt. General Sir John Lorimer, UK’s Defence Senior Adviser on the Middle East, and his accompanying delegation. During the meeting, Al Dhaheri welcomed Lt. General Lorimer and praised the relations between the UAE and UK which he said are witnessing great development ...

Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation announced the new fees for recruiting domestic workers, via four packages provided across 11 ‘Tadbeer’ service centres. Khalil Ibrahim Khouri, Assistant Under-Secretary for Assistive Employment Affairs, highlighted the ministry’s desire to provide packages at reasonable prices for recruiting domestic workers, according to specific criteria adopted by the ministry through the ...