Dubai / Emirates Business Noor Bank, a leading Shari’a-compliant bank in the UAE, on Monday announced that it has notched up several prestigious wins at the Banker Middle East Product Awards 2017 and at the Banker Middle East Industry Awards 2017, organised by CPI Financial’s renowned Banker Middle East magazine. Noor Bank won Best Corporate Account for its escrow account ...

Bloomberg Liberbank rebounded in Madrid trading after regulators prohibited short selling of the Spanish lender in the wake of a stock plunge last week. The shares jumped as much as 31 percent, the most since the bank’s 2013 debut, and were up 28 percent priced at 86.8 cents as of 10:06 a.m. The stock dropped 41 percent last week after ...

Dubai / Reuters Bahrain’s central bank ordered banks operating in the kingdom to freeze assets and bank accounts of the Qatar-linked 59 individuals and 12 entities that a group of Saudi-led Arab countries have accused of links to terrorism, the state news agency BNA reported in a statement. The move came after Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain, who ...