AMSTERDAM – Tuesday, January 31st 2012 [ME NewsWire] Banking Card That Facilitates Easier Payment and with Added Security Features is Also Certified By “Groupement d’Intérêt Economique – Carte Bancaire” (BUSINESS WIRE)– Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announces it is behind Crédit Agricole’s large-scale deployment of contactless EMV banking cardsin [...]
Doha- Qatar – Sunday, January 29th 2012 [ME NewsWire] QInvest, Qatar’s leading Investment bank, has acquired 30.5% of Al Nakheel Agriculture and Trading Company W.L.L. and AG Middle East LLC (together the “Group”). Based in Doha, Qatar, the companies specialize in providing landscaping and related maintenance services to governmental, corporate and industrial customers. This acquisition [...]
Full-Year 2011 Net Income of $1.4 Billion, or $0.01 Per Diluted Share CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Thursday, January 26th 2012 [ME NewsWire] Strong Capital Generation With Tier 1 Common Equity Ratio at 9.86 Percent Global Excess Liquidity Sources Remain Strong at $378 Billion, up $42 Billion in 2011 Investment Bank Maintained No. 2 Global Ranking in [...]
Appointments underscore bank’s commitment to strengthen its merchant banking business and promote greater capital flows between the Middle East and Asia SINGAPORE & MANAMA, Bahrain – Thursday, January 26th 2012 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)– The Islamic Bank of Asia (IB Asia) today announced two key senior appointments to drive the bank’s focus on investment banking [...]
MINNEAPOLIS – Wednesday, January 18th 2012 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)– Syncada from Visa announced today that its global financial supply chain network processed more than $21 billion in payments during 2011, a substantial increase from 2010 and a record in annual payments for the company. “Creating efficiency in the financial supply chain has a direct, [...]
January 14th, 2012 Amman – Gate2Play, the regional company specialized in e-payments and online consultancy, launched the first integrated e-payment system in the region, accepting all types of credit and prepaid cards, bank transfers and other payment transactions made by users online or via their mobile phones. Gate2Play e-payment system offers a complete online payment [...]
December 19, 2011 Al Hilal Bank, a progressive Islamic bank, won as ‘Best Retail Bank (GCC)’ during the 6th edition of the prestigious Islamic Business & Finance Awards held recently in Dubai. This marks the fourth major industry recognition for the bank this year. Al Hilal Bank won the most number of votes under the [...]
ROAD TOWN, Tortola – Monday, December 19th 2011 [ME NewsWire] (BUSINESS WIRE)–iFOREX, a foreign exchange rates and currency trading provider, recently revealed the infographic of their two-part learning guide for traders new to the foreign exchange market. The new design incorporates simple to follow infographics and text as well as clear examples on how to [...]
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – Monday, November 21st 2011 [ME NewsWire] UAE Exchange joins hands with Bank of Kathmandu Nepal becomes the second country, after India, to experience FLASH “Account Credit is now a real time phenomenon in Nepal too.”, exclaimed Mr. Y. Sudhir Kumar Shetty, COO – Global Operations, UAE Exchange, while announcing [...]
Dubai, UAE November 2011: As buoyant growth shifts towards emerging markets, the GCC region looks set to emerge as the new economic power by 2020, according to Steve Hamilton-Clark, CEO of leading custom consumer research house, TNS MENA. “The GCC will see continuous development and show above-average growth at 3.9 per cent in 2012, compared [...]
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