The Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI) has unveiled a new brand identity, following the expansion of the Institute’s mandate as the knowledge beacon of the IsDB Group. Previously known as the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), the Institute was restructured and renamed as IsDB Institute in 2021, after four decades of pioneering contributions to […]
Dubai Investments, the leading diversified investment company listed on the Dubai Financial Market [DFM] has published its 2021 Sustainability Report highlighting water use efficiency with 44% recycled and reused, reiterating the Company’s proactive steps towards reducing water footprint. The other key highlights within the report included a 16% reduction in direct Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions […]
Standard Chartered PLC (the Group) today released its financial results for the first quarter, ending 31 March, 2022. The Group delivered a strong performance in the first quarter of 2022 in volatile and challenging market conditions, with underlying profit before tax increasing 5 per cent on a constant currency basis. Income grew 11 per cent […]
The Central Bank of Bahrain (“CBB”) has issued new regulations applicable to crowdfunding platform operators following a comprehensive review of the existing regulations, which were first issued in 2017. The new regulations contain rules regarding equity-based crowdfunding and financing-based crowdfunding and are covered under Crowdfunding Platform Operators Module (Module CFP). Module CFP can be found […]
His Excellency Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications stated that the importance of investing in talents and resources to implement Ai technologies in innovating solutions and systems aiding all fields to enhance UAE’s place and elevating it, to be one of the most advanced countries […]
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today announced the Cloudflare API Gateway, providing businesses a simple, fast, and effective way to protect and control all of their APIs (application programming interfaces). Organizations are using APIs more than ever before, yet many of them struggle to secure […]
The announcement, which comes ahead of the company’s participation at next month’s Arabian Travel Market, which takes place from 9-12 May at the Dubai World Trade Centre, will see an additional six properties added to TIME Hotel’s portfolio, with developments in Fujairah, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and three in Egypt being showcased at the Middle East’s […]
Netherlands-headquartered Xebia has had a presence in the region since opening a Dubai office in 2016. But this year, it has announced ambitious growth plans, backed by an ever-growing client roster. From just one local client and 14 staff in 2016, the company has experienced tremendous growth in the last six years within the Middle […]
Freshworks Inc. (NASDAQ: FRSH), a software company empowering the people who power business, today announced Freshworks CRM for e-commerce is now available in the Shopify App Store. The solution integrates directly with Shopify to provide its millions of merchants with a unified CRM that enables live conversational support, marketing and sales where and when consumers […]
BEDU, Dubai’s foremost pioneer in Web3 technologies and solutions, today hosted its first Ramadan NFT Majlis with ARTS DAO. Held at the Foundry, Downtown, Dubai, the event brought together over 100 prominent players from the NFT community to discuss the latest trends in the Metaverse, NFT, and Web3 space. During the event, BEDU also announced […]
