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Blackstone opens DIFC office as Gulf wealth management hub, plans Kuwait...
Blackstone has opened an office in the Dubai International Financial Centre to serve as the regional hub for its wealth management business across the...
State Street appoints Hamza Khushaim as Country CEO for Saudi Arabia...
State Street Corporation has appointed Hamza Khushaim as Chief Executive Officer and Country Head for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, adding senior leadership to a...
Barclays opens Riyadh office: Appoints CEO & Head of Investment Banking...
Barclays has opened an office in Riyadh's King Abdullah Financial District, completing a staged re-entry into Saudi Arabia and appointing Majed Al Hassoun as...
AlRayan Investment in Qatar appoints Bryan Crawford as Chief Executive Officer
AlRayan Investment, the wholly owned investment subsidiary of AlRayan Bank, has appointed Bryan Crawford as Chief Executive Officer. He succeeds Akber Khan, who had...
Wrise promotes Pushkin Kapoor to Middle East Chief Executive Officer
Wrise has promoted Pushkin Kapoor to Chief Executive Officer of its Middle East wealth management business, filling a seat that has been vacant since...
Barclays relocates Nikita Turkin to Dubai as Head of Equity Advisory...
Barclays is relocating Nikita Turkin as Head of Equity Advisory & Origination for MENA from London where he was Head of CEEMEA Equity Capital...
J.P. Morgan expands DIFC presence by opening new private banking branch
J.P. Morgan Private Bank today announces its new branch in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the leading global financial centre in the Middle...
ADGM grants six licence approvals in October as eight global asset...
Abu Dhabi Global Market's Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) granted six licence approvals in October 2026, three full Financial Services Permissions and three in-principle...
South Africa’s Absa opens first Gulf office in DIFC and appoints...
Absa Group, the South African banking group, has opened an office in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) to strengthen its support for trade...
DIFC targets 1,000 AI companies and 5,000 jobs by 2030
Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is targeting 1,000 artificial intelligence companies and 5,000 jobs in the AI economy by 2030, after Dubai AI Campus...















