Bahrain-based asset manager BAGS Capital has become the first firm to secure an investment business category 4 licence from the central bank.
Bahrain-based asset manager BAGS Capital has become the first firm to secure an investment business category 4 licence from the central bank.
The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) has amended its investment regulations to cater for the growing influence of family offices.
Crypto exchange operator Binance has been given regulatory approval to launch a futures product in Bahrain.
The Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) has launched an initiative to introduce securities lending and short-selling activity.
A parliamentary session in Lebanon to debate the creation of a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) has been cancelled following a boycott from the two main opposition parties.
M2, a virtual assets trading platform based in the UAE, has been granted a financial services permission (FSP) licence from the Abu Dhabi Global Market.
The Middle East branch of Swiss wealth manager Mirabaud has been hit with a US$3 million fine by Dubai’s financial watchdog for its inadequate anti-money laundering (AML) systems.
Dubai’s virtual assets regulatory authority (VARA) has approved a digital asset subsidiary of Japanese bank Nomura.
Turkey is reportedly close to being removed from the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as a result of its efforts to improve its anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regime.
The UAE’s Securities and Commodity Authority (SCA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the UAE Banks Federation designed to boost the country’s asset and wealth management sector.
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