Company Insights Islamic Development Bank Banking & Finance Islamic Development Bank News EXCLUSIVE Development Gulf donors contribute a third of non-profit Spark’s funding GCC donors account for more than one-third of funding for Spark, a non-profit international development organisation that supports startups in fragile and conflict-affected countries in Mena. “The GCC is our second-largest source of funds owing to a mix of state donors, philanthropic foundations, charitable organisations and Zakat,” Spark’s founder and CEO, Yannick du Pont, told […] March 21, 2023 Banking & Finance Egyptian banks to support local SMEs with $120m funding Saudi-based Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), an affiliate of the Islamic Development Bank, is planning to provide financing worth $120 million to local Egyptian banks, including Banque Misr and the National Bank of Egypt (NBE), Egypt Today newspaper reported. Funds will help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and provide integrated […] January 25, 2023 Analysis Manufacturing Factory investments triple in Abu Dhabi Investment in Abu Dhabi’s active industrial sector has tripled over the past year as the emirate seeks to become a regional manufacturing hub. Latest figures released by Industrial Development Bureau (IBD), part of the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED), showed that the total value of factories that switched to the in-production stage rose […] September 12, 2022 Posts navigation Previous 1 2 3
EXCLUSIVE Development Gulf donors contribute a third of non-profit Spark’s funding GCC donors account for more than one-third of funding for Spark, a non-profit international development organisation that supports startups in fragile and conflict-affected countries in Mena. “The GCC is our second-largest source of funds owing to a mix of state donors, philanthropic foundations, charitable organisations and Zakat,” Spark’s founder and CEO, Yannick du Pont, told […] March 21, 2023
Banking & Finance Egyptian banks to support local SMEs with $120m funding Saudi-based Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD), an affiliate of the Islamic Development Bank, is planning to provide financing worth $120 million to local Egyptian banks, including Banque Misr and the National Bank of Egypt (NBE), Egypt Today newspaper reported. Funds will help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and provide integrated […] January 25, 2023
Analysis Manufacturing Factory investments triple in Abu Dhabi Investment in Abu Dhabi’s active industrial sector has tripled over the past year as the emirate seeks to become a regional manufacturing hub. Latest figures released by Industrial Development Bureau (IBD), part of the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED), showed that the total value of factories that switched to the in-production stage rose […] September 12, 2022
