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American Express® Middle East launches ‘Choose your Prize’ campaign

Campaign to make using American Express Cards even more rewarding Monthly raffle draw gives Cardmembers flexibility to select prizes that match their lifestyles In line with...

Tasweek discusses key mortgage marketing developments at Cityscape Abu Dhabi

Tasweek Real Estate Marketing and Development, a leading property advisor and solutions provider, says that easy access to mortgage financing has helped sustain Abu...

New personal loans system from May 1, 2011

A new retail loan system announced by the Central Bank earlier in 2011 aiming at regulating personal lending will be enforced on May 1,...

Interest rates on mortgages sliding

The international banking giant HSBC has become the latest lender to cut interest rates in the UAE. HSBC brought down rates on conventional and...

GoldMoney Completes “GoldMoney Standard” Testing

GoldMoney, one of the world’s largest providers of physical bullion for investors, has completed testing of all the gold bars stored for customers in...

AMAN’s AGM approves 7.5% bonus shares

Dubai Islamic Insurance and Reinsurance Company (AMAN) has successfully concluded its Annual General Meeting (AGM) yesterday (March 22, 2011) at ‘The Emirates Towers’ Hotel...

Methaq Takaful to inaugurate new branches

Methaq Takaful Insurance Company will inaugurate two new branches in Al Ain and Jebel Ali Free Zone shortly. The move is compatible with the company's...

flydubai ties up with Al Fardan Exchange

flydubai, Dubai’s first low cost airline, has signed an agreement with Al Fardan Exchange to allow customers to pay for their flights at any...

DIFC proposes New Mortgage Model

The proposed Model involves private residential mortgages being funded by the issuance of standardised bonds, creating a large and liquid mortgage bond market.

DIFC Courts introduced fully paperless infrastructure

// DIFC Courts, the Dubai International Financial Centre's (DIFC) independent, common law judicial system, on Wednesday said it introduced a new, groundbreaking, fully paperless...

New system limits personal loans to 20 times a person’s monthly...

UAE Central Bank announced today that it has adopted a new system of bank loans and other services provided to individual clients. The announcement came...

Bloomberg announced launch of a Bloomberg Islamic Finance Platform

Bloomberg Professional® service executives today announced the launch of a Bloomberg Islamic Finance Platform (ISLM), a comprehensive solution designed to increase transparency, better connect...

Chedid Re wins the 2011 Reinsurance Broker of the Year award

Chedid Re has been named “2011 Reinsurance Broker of the Year” for the second year in a row by the MENA Insurance Awards (previously...

CFA Emirates congratulates new charterholders at Annual Charter award ceremony

Last night the President and Board of CFA Emirates, the association for financial and investment professionals, hosted its annual charterholder ceremony at the Burj...

Al Ramz Securities joins Fidessa’s connectivity network

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA), provider of high-performance trading, market data and global connectivity solutions for the buy-side and sell-side, has today announced that...

Tamweel introduces promotional home finance profit rates starting from 4.99 per...

Real estate finance provider offers up to 80 per cent finance on ready residential properties in Dubai and Abu Dhabi Tamweel PJSC, the UAE-based Islamic...

Methaq Takaful Insurance Company to issue vehicle insurance policies online

Methaq Takaful Insurance Company announced that it has finalized the electronic link between its online platform and the Abu Dhabi E-Traffic services and Dubai's...

Ministry of Finance signs MoUs with ESMA and AJFD

Ministry of Finance (MoF) has announced the signing of memorandum of understanding with Emirates Authority for Standardization and Metrology (ESMA) and with the Financial...