UOB announced the completion of the acquisition of Citigroup’s consumer banking businesses in Malaysia and Thailand. Completion of the acquisition for Citigroup’s consumer banking businesses in Indonesia and Vietnam is planned for 2023. The consumer businesses comprise Citigroup’s unsecured and secured lending portfolios, wealth management and retail deposit businesses. The acquisition is part of UOB’s […]

Pakistan’s largest telecommunication group – PTCL & Ufone 4G concluded its month-long breast cancer awareness campaign by organizing a webinar in collaboration with Maroof International Hospital, Islamabad to sensitize its female employees regarding the prevention and early detection of the disease. The webinar concluded the awareness drive organized in correspondence with the global ‘Pinktober’ campaign. […]

Invest Bank and Emirates Post have recently entered a partnership to provide a seamless customer experience by enhancing the bank’s delivery services. The agreement, which was signed by Ahmad Mohd Abu Eideh, CEO of Invest Bank and Peter Somers, CEO of Emirates Post at Invest Bank Head Office in XX October 2022, will enable Invest […]

The Social Loan Company announces its transformative TLSC Platform Services will go live in Africa in Q1 2023 through two game-changing partnerships in Nigeria to improve financial inclusion in the region. Deepak H. Saluja, Co-Founder & Group CEO at TSLC, said: “Financial exclusion negatively impacts the lives of over 50% of adults in Africa. Despite massive […]

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, the ultra-low-fare national airline of the UAE, has added Kuwait City to its ever-expanding network, its fifth key destination in the Gulf region. The new route will strengthen connectivity within the GCC by providing an alternative ultra-low fare travel option for passengers between the two Gulf countries. This falls in line […]

Aramco and IBM announced preliminary plans for a strategic collaboration to establish an Innovation Hub in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The collaboration aims to support high-tech driven economic growth in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia leveraging emerging technologies in hybrid cloud, AI, and quantum computing to address objectives including circular economy, materials science, supply chain, sustainability, […]

With an increasing adoption of biometrics in the region, First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), the UAE’s largest bank, has partnered with UAE’s largest retailer Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) to launch the nation’s first biometric payment card using IDEMIA’s world-class technology delivering added safety and security to transactions. From unlocking smartphones to gaining verified access to […]

COFE, the online coffee-centric marketplace platform, is now providing users in KSA and UAE a seamless innovative experience by rolling out access to its skills in both Arabic and English through its collaboration with Alexa, Amazon’s voice AI and the brain that powers the Echo device family. In a bid to elevate COFE lovers’ experience, […]

Omantel and Huawei have inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on cloud business. The MoU was signed at GITEX GLOBAL 2022 by Talal Said Al Mamari, Chief Executive Officer of Omantel, and Frank Dai, President of HUAWEI CLOUD Middle East. As part of their strategic cooperation, Omantel and Huawei will come together to […]

The cryptocurrency world welcomed a new player as the Haqq Platform was launched recently at GITEX Global in Dubai. The new trading platform, operated and managed by the Haqq Association, will allow the general public to trade the Islamic Coin digital currency in compliance with the provisions of Shariah law. “We received an overwhelming response […]