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  Dubai / Emirates Business Gidea Technology Company launched a new service to the payment sector market in Saudi Arabia, which facilitates the linking system of electronic for Saudi banks with UnionPay network “the global payment network that serves the world’s largest cardholder base” through the Saudi Payments Network System (MADA) in cooperation with the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency. It ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Nissan has signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Greater Amman Municipality in Jordan as part of a landmark initiative to provide the Kingdom with its first 100 Nissan LEAF and Nissan e-NV200 electric vehicles (EVs). The vehicles, to be supplied by Bustami & Saheb (BSTC), Nissan’s exclusive distributor in the Kingdom, will ...

  Bloomberg The IMF weighed in once more with its thoughts on Britain’s referendum, warning the U.K. could slide into a recession if it quits the EU. In a 64-page document, the Washington-based fund said that the size of the hit would depend on a multitude of factors, though its overall assessment is that the U.K. “would likely be worse ...

  Bloomberg It’s almost upon us: the week when Britain takes the historic decision of whether to remain in the EU. And whatever the polls say in the days to come — and regardless of the result on June 24 — the pound is set for a wild ride. One-week anticipated volatility surged to the highest on record, posting the ...

  Bloomberg The surge in demand for sovereign debt that drove yields on German government bonds to record lows this week is poised to resume before the U.K. referendum on EU membership on June 23. While yields on the Germany’s 10-year bunds halted a three-week decline on Friday, they dropped below zero on June 14 for the first time on ...

  Bloomberg The U.S. and the European Union should impose stronger sanctions against Russia to kill the country’s plan for a natural gas pipeline supplying Germany because it would raise prices for consumers and jeopardize energy security, said Andriy Kobolyev, chief executive officer of National JSC Naftogaz of Ukraine. Naftogaz, Ukraine’s state oil and gas company, is calling on the ...

  Bloomberg Prices fell and volume surged in a week of heightened anxiety for U.S. investors, whose dreams of reaching a record high anytime soon all but faded away. A streak of six weeks without a 1 percent drop was broken as the S&P 500 Index dropped 1.2 percent to 2,071.22, the worst retreat since April. Shares slid on four ...

  Bloomberg Peruvian legislation allowing workers to tap their pension savings to repay home loans may lead pension funds to sell dollar assets to meet the increased demand for soles, according to central bank President Julio Velarde. The changes will add strength to the sol and hurt credit growth as outstanding mortgage loans decline, Velarde told reporters in Lima. About ...

  Bloomberg After a week in Washington, Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown prince is heading west to meet with technology executives in Silicon Valley and then to New York to pitch his nation’s new economic plan to Wall Street investors. Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman wants to discuss how Saudi Arabia can benefit from innovations spawned in California and then ...

  Washington / AFP Vale SA is holding discussions with Asian mining companies about a potential sale of a minority stake in its Brazilian iron-ore assets that could fetch as much as $7 bn, according to people familiar with the matter. The world’s top iron-ore producer may also consider streaming deals, the people said, asking not to be identified as the ...