Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), has won the title of ‘World’s Best Islamic Bank’ in The Banker Magazine’s Awards for Islamic Banks in 2018 the highest accolade that the Financial Times-owned publication awards to Islamic banks. ADIB also won two regional awards for ‘Islamic Bank of the Year – UAE’ and ‘Islamic Bank of the Year ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM New York University (NYU) Libraries on Sunday announced that the philanthropic foundation Carnegie Corporation of New York has made a grant of $500,000 to support Arabic Collections Online (ACO), a major project to create a publicly available, digital library of public-domain Arabic language content. ACO aims to digitise 23,000 volumes from NYU and partner institutions and make ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai continued to be the destination of choice for businessmen and investors as the Department of Economic Department (DED), issued 1,689 new licenses and completed 26,184 transactions relating to business registration and licensing in the emirate during May 2018. Renewal of existing licenses accounted for the largest share of the total transactions as their numbers reached 12,618, ...