Three global celebrities today signed Letters of Commitment to establish their respective businesses in Abu Dhabi, including Meditation guru Deepak Chopra, Manchester United icon Patrice Evra and NBA Los Angeles Lakers legend Metta World Peace. The three are in the UAE capital as part of Maven Global Access’ business expansion programme, Access Abu Dhabi, supported […]
KPMG Lower Gulf (LG), comprising the UAE and Oman, today announces the appointment of Emilio Pera as the company’s next Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 January 2023. He takes over from Nader Haffar who resigned from the Company after five years as Chairman and Chief Executive. Mr. Haffar will remain in office until 31 December […]
Phoenix Technology, one of the leading cryptocurrency mining hardware retailers in the region and part of the wider Phoenix Group of companies, announced today that it has entered a strategic, exclusive, regional partnership agreement with MicroBT, a technology company based on blockchain – to sell their WhatsMiner brand in the GCC countries (UAE, Bahrain, KSA, Oman, […]
Zain KSA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with StarLink for cybersecurity and cloud computing services (StarLink MDMC) to discuss the opportunities of further cooperation between the two parties. The MoU demonstrates Zain KSA’s thriving to boost the propagation and expansion of 5G applications in the Kingdom, especially in the business sector. This will be […]
Khaleeji Commercial Bank (KHCB), one of the leading Islamic banks in the Kingdom of Bahrain, has announced the appointment of Ms. Ameera Al Abbasi as the Bank’s Head of Retail Banking. Ms. Ameera Al Abbasi has undertaken several leadership roles since joining KHCB in the year 2008, as she was the Head of Business Banking […]
Students from Canadian University Dubai (CUD) are responding to the call to build coding talent in the UAE, inspired by the recent UAE Codes Day. Computer Science majors and Ali Hussein and Helia Haghighi told how they have been spurred on to develop their passion into a career, following the largest community movement to promote […]
Venture investor firm Knuru Capital announces that it will be providing KLAIM with a $5 million seed investment into an innovative securitized financing structure to help scale its receivable purchase operations in the UAE. KLAIM is a FinTech company dedicated to healthcare that provides working capital to small and mid-size healthcare providers to ease their […]
Ahmed Abu-Sharkh, Country Senior Partner, KPMG in Qatar, said: “Qatar’s CEOs have confronted many disruptions to their growth ambitions over a short period in recent times – COVID-19, geopolitical tensions, supply chain disruptions, cyber threats, the war on talent, and a looming recession. Nevertheless, resilience and optimism in long-term growth prospects prevail. CEOs ranked emerging/disruptive […]
The Department of Planning and Development – Trakhees, the regulatory arm of the Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation, has succeeded in executing more than 24,000 transactions through the Licensing Department at Trakhees during the first nine months of 2022, with a growth rate of 50% compared to the same period last year. Eng. Abdulla […]
The UAE government launched “Jahiz”, an upskilling initiative for the future of government talents, which was recently endorsed by the UAE Cabinet headed by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. It aims to enhance UAE Government readiness through upskilling all government […]
