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			<title>DIFC told funds industry fees are too high</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai financial services watchdog says emirate must liberalise and cut fees for funds firms.]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai regulator says Saad unit licence may be withdrawn</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Unit's affliate, LA Investments, already placed into liquidation in UK by authorities.]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai companies will look to bonds over IPOs - expert </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bonds will play 'critical' role in financing in next 2-3 years, says CEO of DFSA. ]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai’s regulator to get tougher</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[CEO of DFSA says 'light touch' regulation days for companies over as it aims to bring in more robust regime.]]></description>
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			<title>Warning over fraudulant investment scheme</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai Financial Services Authority says the bogus prize scheme is using its letter head. ]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai boosts financial ties with Asia</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Financial regulator the DFSA signs cooperation deals with counterparts in China, Singapore.]]></description>
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			<title>DIFX pushes ahead with short-selling plan</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai bourse continues with derivatives launch, despite international concerns.]]></description>
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			<title>Caught short</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Will the DIFX's launch of derivative trading this year risk unwelcome exposure to short-selling?   ]]></description>
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			<title>Forex firm staff slapped with five-year DIFC ban</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ GFS Investments fined $25,000, ordered to pay $500,000 compensation to customers.]]></description>
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			<title>Crackdown</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Dubai is turning the screw on white-collar crime, with a string of dramatic high-profile arrests. ]]></description>
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			<title>Islamic finance 'needs tighter regulation'</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Financial watchdog makes call in bid to avoid problems plaguing global markets.]]></description>
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			<title>Do regulators feel the urge to merge?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rumours of a merger between the emirates financial watchdogs appear to be premature. ]]></description>
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			<title>Mutual understanding?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The burgeoning takaful industry still has issues to resolve when it comes to regulation, marketing and Shariah compliance. Daniel Stanton reports from Takaful 08 in Bahrain.]]></description>
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			<title>Head of DFSA to step down</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[David Knott, CEO of DIFC's financial regulator, to retire at end of year.  ]]></description>
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			<title>The long and short of it</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The DFSA was the first regulator to introduce a code of practice for hedge funds.   ]]></description>
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			<title>Omniyat plans investments</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Omniyat Holdings has established Omniyat Investment Management (OIM) Company, with plans for it to manage deals worth over US $544 million (AED2 billion) in 2008.]]></description>
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			<title>UAE poised to set up single financial regulator</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Move to leave central bank sole mandate of setting monetary policy, report says.]]></description>
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			<title>The gatekeeper</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  David Knott, CEO of the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), regulator of the Dubai International Financial Centre, explains how he is strengthening standards.]]></description>
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			<title>Under administration</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  The region's fund managers are making more use of independent custodians and administrators, and demanding increasingly sophisticated services, ABF discovers.]]></description>
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			<title>First hedge fund regulation launched by DFSA</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai Financial Services Authority is first to regulate hedge funds.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Regulators must share the blame</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[DIFCWEEK: DFSA head says financial regulators are partly responsible for the world credit crisis.  ]]></description>
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			<title>First Nordic bank sets up in region</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Kaupthing Bank to use its new licence in Dubai's DIFC to target entrepreneurs in the Middle East.]]></description>
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			<title>DFSA may revoke Forsyth subsidiary's licence </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai's watchdog gives firm until Sunday to show it complies with DFSA regulations.]]></description>
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			<title>Penalise banks for risky loans? </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Each week Arabian Business invites you to have your say on a popular issue. ]]></description>
			<category>Banking &amp; Finance | Last Word</category>
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			<title>Bumfrey rapped by DFSA</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Regulator takes action against unauthorised individual for promoting equity fund in the DIFC.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf states to combat cyber crime</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[GCC countries should adopt a treaty to combat cyber crime, delegates at a conference were told this week.]]></description>
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			<title>Dubai regulator hires big names</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The DFSA has added five senior personnel in preparation for the 'next decade' of growth.]]></description>
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			<title>Al Mulla: UAE legal system must change</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The former DFSA boss warns that the country could face 'immense problems' unless laws are updated.]]></description>
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			<title>Authority figure</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Former DFSA chairman Dr Habib Al Mulla talks about what direction the DIFC, and the UAE, should be going in.]]></description>
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			<title>Call to open insurance markets</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[WEF special: Former DFSA chairman says the region's market needs more foreign competition.]]></description>
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