Chairman of Mashreq Bank and his family’s education foundation, Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair, talks to CNBC’s Tania Bryer about his work to provide education for young refugees.
Mashreq Bank
ABTV
AB Crossfire: are banks in the UAE supporting SMEs?
Debate discusses how small and medium sized companies in the UAE fare in relation to access to funding
chatbots
Dubai’s Mashreq launches customised digital services for SMEs
NeoBiz offers key services to small businesses including innovative chatbot called Emma
expat remittances
Dubai’s Mashreq launches credit card remittances service
Mashreq customers can now use their credit cards to make instant money transfers to all banks in India and Pakistan
Arif Amiri
MidEast’s first blockchain KYC data-sharing consortium launched in Dubai
Dubai firms will be able to digitally create a single KYC record to share data with their various financial institutions
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
Revealed: how healthy is the UAE’s banking sector?
New research says UAE banks are generating healthy earnings despite tougher economic conditions in Q1
blockchain technology
Dubai Land Department, Mashreq Bank pen e-mortgage agreement
The system will help reduce paper transactions and the number of visits to DLD
Arada
Arada secures $270m loans to help fund Sharjah projects
The two Islamic facilities follow a previous AED 1bn facility arranged in December 2017
digital banking
‘No significant impact’ on jobs from Mashreq branch closures
Senior exec says bank is retraining employees as part of its digital transformation strategy
digital banking
Revealed: how Dubai’s Mashreq is adapting to a new era in banking
Mashreq Bank unveils a reimagined branch format as part of its digital transformation strategy
Business Bay
Dubai developer secures $40m financing for new hotel fit-out
Omniyat announces financing from Mashreq Bank for the fit-out of hotel in The Opus by Zaha Hadid in Downtown Dubai
Dubai
Emaar, Emirates NBD top list of GCC ‘bargain stocks’
Two of Emaar’s listed companies, several of the Gulf’s top banks, ranked highly on the Markaz list of undervalued stocks
contactless payments
Revealed: how the UAE is going contactless
Senior banking exec says popularity is being driven primarily by the increased penetration of contactless cards and usage of digital wallets
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Dubai’s Mashreq says 2018 net profit stable at $570m
Mashreq CEO, Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair, says 2018 ‘was a difficult year’ due to market fluctuations
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
6,500 students in school thanks to Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education
$27.22 million will be spent over the next three years to support the education of refugee students in the UAE, Lebanon and Jordan
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair: why it’s time to open up on charity
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair has embarked a mission to help educate thousands of refugee children in the region – and wants to encourage others to do their part through open and institutionalised philanthropy
Android devices
Google Pay now available in UAE
Google has partnered with Emirates NBD, Emirates Islamic, Mashreq and Standard Chartered banks