Visa, a world leader in digital payments, today released the annual Stay Secure study in the UAE, which assesses consumer awareness and behaviors around digital commerce and fraud. This year’s edition, conducted by Wakefield Research, highlights how AI‑enabled shopping and social commerce are changing consumer behavior even as expectations around trust and protection remain firmly
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Gulf Capital, one of the largest and most active private equity firms investing from the GCC to Asia, together with Karthik and Sneha Polsani, founders of ECLAT Health Solutions (“ECLAT”), and the ECLAT management team, today announced the completion of Gulf Capital’s successful exit from ECLAT through a Management Buyout. The transaction returns full ownership
As the UAE accelerates its ambitions to become a global centre for innovation, entrepreneurship and food resilience, one local founder is bringing together some of the region’s most influential Food & Beverage voices to ask a boldquestion: Why import the future… when we can build it right here? On 18 June, Seda Solmaz will host
The horse “Wasmy Al Khalediah” was crowned champion of the UAE President’s Cup for Purebred Arabian Horses at the Sweden leg, the second European stop on the 33rd edition’s calendar, held on Saturday, at the Gärdet Turf Racecourse in Stockholm, coinciding with the National Day celebrations of the Kingdom of Sweden. The Sweden leg featured
Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, Chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority, visited Washington, D.C., where he and the accompanying delegation met with US Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg, and a number of members of the US Congress.
Total assets of the UAE banking sector, including bankers’ acceptances, increased by 0.2 percent to AED5.57 trillion at the end of April 2026, compared with AED5.556 trillion at the end of March, according to the Central Bank of the UAE’s Monetary and Banking Developments Report for April. The report showed that gross bank credit rose
