Bloomberg Standard Chartered Plc started its first brokerage business in Japan with 100 employees as institutional investors in the country seek products from emerging markets in Asia, the Middle East and Africa for better returns. The UK bank will deploy 20 salesmen to meet with Japanese life insurers, brokerages, banks and asset managers to sell products that invest in ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The General Index for Consumer Confidence in Abu Dhabi’s economic performance during Q1 of 2016 recorded about 115 points on average, reflecting continuous optimism among the consumers of different demographic and social segments towards the economic conditions in Abu Dhabi. This further reflects consumers’ confidence in Abu Dhabi’s economic capabilities to accommodate the current economic challenges ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates Islamic, one of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the UAE, was honoured with the prestigious Excellence in Practice Citation Award by the Association for Talent Development (ATD). The bank won in the Organisational Learning & Development and Learning Technologies categories for its ‘CX Learning Initiative’ that aims at inculcating the customer-centric philosophy of ...