Egypt Why Belal El-Megharbel left Careem and shunned his family business This article originally appeared on the International Financial Corporation (IFC) website. By Gloria Mwaniga Odary In 2018, when Belal... Thought Leadership • 27 January, 2021 MaxAB B2B marketplace
U.A.E How can we stay productive in a hybrid world? Mohammed Arif is the business group director of modern workplace and security at Microsoft UAE As the pandemic has spread around the... Thought Leadership • 25 January, 2021 Workflow microsoft
Egypt Egyptian fintech in 2021: The journey ahead [Part Two] In the second part series, Michel Assaad, vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa strategy at Citi Bank, outlines the trends... Thought Leadership • 21 January, 2021 Fintech
Egypt Egyptian fintech in 2020: A tale of crosswinds and tailwinds [Part One] In this two part series, Michel Assaad, vice president of Europe, Middle East and Africa strategy at Citi Bank, outlines the trends... Thought Leadership • 20 January, 2021 Fintech
U.A.E Wamda participates in Ziina’s seed round Wamda has invested in UAE-based peer-to-peer (P2P) payment application Ziina’s seed funding round, which was led by the Oman... Wamda • 19 January, 2021 Ziina Fintech
Regional Women entrepreneurs can boost Middle East economies Last week, TiE held its Women Global Competition in person in the UAE. The global initiative is dedicated to empower women... Thought Leadership • 18 January, 2021 Women entrepreneurship TiE
Regional Rise of angels: More money or more inexperienced investors? Angels are coming forth in the Middle East, more ready than ever to start investing in startups. Over the past year, several new angel... Dunya Hassanein • 14 January, 2021 Angel Investment
Regional Wamda and Tarjama launch translation tool to serve the regional ecosystem Wamda, the Middle East region's leading startup ecosystem enabler, has launched an English-Arabic business terminology translation... Wamda • 13 January, 2021 wamda Tarjama Arabic digital content
Qatar What impact will the restoration of relations with Qatar have on its startups? The almost four-year blockade of Qatar was lifted last week at the GCC Summit. Now that Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have... Thought Leadership • 12 January, 2021 qatar
Saudi Arabia Businesses in Saudi Arabia are showing signs of recovery, with some big winners By Khalid Suleimani and Loulwa Bakr, senior partners at Chrome Advisory Some of the most optimistic people did not expect to... Thought Leadership • 11 January, 2021 sme Retail
Regional Mena startups raised $65.5m in December, pushing 2020 total to $654m Last year was meant to be the year that startups in the Middle East and North Africa broke the billion-dollar investment mark, but the... Wamda • 07 January, 2021 Investment
Global Why are governments hoarding Bitcoins? Khurram Shroff is the chairman of UAE-based private equity firm IBC Group which has invested in over 4000 different Blockchain products.... Thought Leadership • 05 January, 2021 cryptocurrency Bitcoin
Regional Trends to expect in 2021 Last year we outlined several trends we expected would take place in 2020 – rise in foodtech, growth of e-commerce and the year that... Wamda • 03 January, 2021 coronavirus Trends
Regional Our top stories from 2020 The coronavirus pandemic usurped every aspect of our lives. In its devastation, it dictated our movement, altered our habits and... Wamda • 31 December, 2020 entrepreneurship
Regional What 2020 has taught us about digital transformation Selina Bieber is the senior regional director for the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, and South Africa at GoDaddy The year 2020 has... Thought Leadership • 30 December, 2020 digital transformation
Global What are the four phases of leadership? Sri Shivananda is the senior vice-president and chief technology officer at PayPal SVP I have benefitted significantly in my career... Thought Leadership • 28 December, 2020 Leadership
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