ABU DHABI / WAM The Arab Trade Financing Programme (ATFP) approved US$ 1.108 billion in credit facilities all over the last year, bringing to $13.3 billion the total credit provided by the programme for boosting inter-Arab trade since its establishment. This is announced by Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman Al-Hamoody, ATFP Chairman and CEO, during the 28th annual meeting of …

  Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the region, became the first bank worldwide to pilot ‘KinTrans,’ a technology that enables easy two-way communication between sign language communicators with hearing disabilities, and people who use spoken languages. The bank’s commitment to people with disabilities supports the ‘#MyCommunity’ initiative launched by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin …

  Bloomberg US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov vented disagreements after hours of talks in Moscow while signaling that neither side is giving up on improving relations soured by Russian hacking and deepening differences over Syria. Tillerson’s first trip to Russia as the top US diplomat was so freighted with tension that the Kremlin …