DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, approved the Emirates Development Bank (EDB) Strategy to provide a sizeable AED30 billion financial support to businesses and start-ups in a major step to drive the national economy. Launched to support “Operation 300bn”, the EDB Strategy aims to leverage the Bank’s ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s representative offices in Africa organised a webinar in cooperation with Oxford Business Group and the Pan African Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which covered some of the key benefits of doing business in Africa. The virtual event, attended by 163 participants from the UAE and Africa, aimed to familiarise UAE companies ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME) on Monday announced the launch of Alternative Crude Ecosystem (ACE) — a new bilateral trading platform to enable participants to trade multiple crude grades through the exchange. DME, which is based in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), will make the platform available for all participants and will offer traders the opportunity to trade ...