DUBAI / WAM The Commercial Compliance and Consumer Protection (CCCP) sector at Dubai Economy and Souq.com, the Middle East’s largest online retail and marketplace website, have announced co-operation on the ‘Digital Protection’ initiative for consumer rights protection. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the CCCP and Souq.com aims at promoting consumer confidence in the region’s growing e-commerce industry and …

ABU DHABI / WAM First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) has been recognised as the ‘Best Trade Finance Bank in MENA’ at the GTR Leaders in Trade 2016 Awards in recognition of its excellence in the trade, commodity, supply chain and export finance markets. FAB received the award at a ceremony organised by Global Trade Review, GTR, magazine, in London recently. …

DUBAI / WAM The World Economic Forum (WEF) will convene its first Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York on September 18-19. The Summit is dedicated to accelerating progress towards Sustainable Development Goals and Paris climate agreement through public-private cooperation and the application of technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Building on conversations at the Forum’s Annual Meeting 2017 in …