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Dubai’s banks are no longer just regional institutions serving a fast-growing city. They have become part of a much larger machine: a financial system built to connect Gulf capital with Africa, Asia, Europe, and the wider Middle East. That matters for offshore investors, international entrepreneurs, family offices, and globally mobile clients who want more than … Read more
The Beginning: Bretton Woods and the Foundations of Private Placement Trading Private Placement Trading, often referred to as Private Placement Programs (PPP), has its origins in the post-World War II monetary restructuring efforts that led to the establishment of the Bretton Woods system in 1944. The agreement sought to stabilize global currencies, peg them to … Read more
DIFC Combined revenues exceed USD272 mn for the first time DUBAI, UAE, Feb. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region’s leading global financial centre, continued to grow at record-breaking pace in 2022. The total number of active registered companies in Dubai grew to 4,377 in 2022, up 20% from 3,644 in 2021. During 2022, … Read more
Fintech Business, Beehive, is the First Peer to Peer Lending Platform to Receive DFSA Regulation DUBAI, UAE, March 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — New regulation key to driving growth of Fintech businesses in region Lending based crowdfunding important new route to finance for SMEs In excess of AED 75 million facilitated across 150 SME funding requests … Read more
Dubai is without a doubt the most exciting International Finance Centre in the world and although a relative start-up as an offshore tax havens, it’s rapidly become the most dynamic banking and financial hub of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Dubai has now grown big enough in the global banking scene to earn it’s own … Read more