Tag: middle east

Chintan Shah will lead Apac & MEA, corporate bank, as Ole Matthiessen becomes global co-head of the corporate bank; Christof Hofmann is named as global head of cash management.

The partnership, known as GLIDE, is targeting $5bn of high-quality warehouses across the Gulf Cooperation Council; it's expected that more partners in the GCC will also participate.

Majed Julfar has joined the German bank in the Middle East from Etihad Credit Insurance, where he was director of trade credit insurance and export finance.

Ant’s e-commerce payment platform Antom will commence operations locally later in the year.

Jo Miyake to become head of banking, Asia and the Middle East, under its new Corporate and Institutional Banking unit, while Selim Kervanci will become CEO of the Middle East.

The pre-series B funding co-led by Global Ventures and existing investor Reefknot Investments will initially help expansion into the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

CT understands that Sameer Shah will join the German bank as head of cash management sales for Middle East & Africa.

Nowhere is diversifying faster than the Middle East and corporates are queuing up to invest. CT looks at three of the region’s prime hotspots.

The Chinese SME cross-border payment platform wants to facilitate Chinese merchants’ local currency collection in markets where trade flows are growing, including Africa.

Mark Evans will relocate from Sydney to Singapore, to replace Vishnu Shahaney upon his retirement in July.

The collaboration connects UAE-based users with major international payment corridors.

The market's central bank reports over 53 million digital payment transactions in the first half of 2021.