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ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International Financial Centre in Abu Dhabi, and the Responsible Finance and Investment Foundation (RFI) have announced the setting up of a partnership to bolster the growth and sustainability of the FinTech ecosystem through financial inclusion and ethical and responsible finance practices. The collaboration agreement was signed by Blake Goud, Chief ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Events Licensing System (ELS), which was launched earlier during the year by Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) has experienced unprecedented growth of 19.5 percent in total applications between Q1 and Q2. Operated by TCA Abu Dhabi on behalf of Abu Dhabi Government, the ELS, a mandatory register of all ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business The Community Development Authority’s (CDA) team of professionals dedicated to implem- enting the Dubai 10X strategy is organising a week-long series of brainstorming workshops to turn their initiatives into pragmatic projects. The series kicks off with a workshop for CDA’s tier-one and tier-two leaders, where, along with the Authority’s Dubai 10X team, attendees will explore pragmatic ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Amlak Finance PJSC, a leading specialized real estate financier in the Middle East, announced its financial results for the first half ended June 30, 2017. Amlak reported net profit of AED 15.5 million for the first half ended June 30 2017. The company reported profit of AED 8.1 million for Q2 2017 compared to loss of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) announced that it is in advanced discussions with more than a dozen potential partners who have expressed a significant interest in the offshore concession, currently operated by the Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO) that expires next March. The potential partners are a mix of existing concession holders in ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The preferred mobile plan for tens of thousands of UAE SMEs is now more powerful than ever. du has enriched its Business Mobile Plans to meet the communication needs of SME businesses even better, enabling them to have more flexibility, customisation and simplicity in managing the communication needs of their businesses and employees. “We understand that ...

Bloomberg After relying on oil to fuel its economy for more than half a century, Saudi Arabia is turning to its other abundant natural resource to take it beyond the oil age — desert. The kingdom is converting thousands of square kilometers of sand into new cities as it seeks to diversify away from crude, create jobs and boost investment. ...

TRIPOLI / Reuters Production from Libya’s largest oil field was returning to normal after being briefly disrupted by armed protesters who broke into a control room in the coastal city of Zawiya, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Monday. A pipeline supplying jet fuel and gasoline from Zawiya to Tripoli that the protesters had also closed has reopened, the ...

CAIRO / Reuters Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal will invest about $800 million to expand the Four Seasons resort in Sharm el-Sheikh, in partnership with Talaat Moustafa Holding Group, Egypt’s Investment Minister Sahar Nasr said. Billionaire Alwaleed’s investment will also include establishing two new hotels in al-Alamein, a town on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, and Madinaty, a residential compound east ...

Bloomberg Uganda chose a group including General Electric Co. to build and operate a 60,000-barrels-a-day refinery that will process part of the crude extracted from fields being developed by Total SA and Tullow Oil Plc. The Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium — which also includes Yaatra Ventures LLC, Intracontinent Asset Holdings Ltd. and Italy’s Saipem SpA — was picked after a ...