Bloomberg Opec Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo, an oil industry veteran who steered the group through the creation of the Opec+ alliance, has died in his native Nigeria. He was 63. Barkindo was in the final weeks of his six-year tenure as the top diplomat at Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), where he headed its Vienna-based secretariat. He had returned ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) and Bahrain Bourse (BHB) announced the launch of the region’s first digital exchange hub – Tabadul, with an official bell ringing ceremony live streamed from BHB and the ADX headquarters. Hisham Malak, Chairman of ADX, rang the market opening bell at ADX and Shaikh Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, the ...

  Dubai / WAM Increased adoption of digital-health technologies are expected to unlock an estimated $230 billion globally including $10 billion in the Middle East over the next 5 years, a new report entitled, ‘Digital Health: How Governments Can Accelerate the Value of Digital Health’, revealed. The report was produced by the World Government Summit (WGS) in collaboration with McKinsey ...