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One of the world's largest fintech companies has taken a formal step toward offering regulated crypto services in the UAE, winning in-principle approval from Dubai's virtual assets regulator. The location of that decision is as telling as the decision itself.
Finance
As sustainable bond issuance falls sharply across the world, the Gulf is moving the other way, with a record year for green Islamic finance and a pipeline of clean energy to fund. The region is building green finance on its own terms.
Economy
A new reading of global business finds that trade is not shrinking but redrawing its routes, with the UAE named among the emerging nodes of the world's supply networks. For a country built as a crossroads, that is the most valuable place to be.
Economy
Through a year of regional and global disruption, 98 percent of foreign investment in the UAE was left untouched, and non-oil sectors now account for 79 percent of the economy. The two figures together explain why the country absorbed the shocks with so little visible strain.
