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Image: botim money botim money, the financial services arm of botim, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Binance to explore ways of providing digital asset access to millions of users in the UAE. The MoU marks botim’s push to evolve from a communications focused platform into a unified fintech ecosystem that lets users pay, transfer and invest within the same app. The agreement was signed during Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai. The two companies will study how Binance’s digital asset capabilities can be combined with botim’s fintech reach in the UAE. Their discussions focus on identifying practical, compliant solutions…

Image credit: Getty Images Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of the UAE, and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, has announced the citywide introduction of a one-time contactless hotel guest check-in solution. The initiative marks a major advancement in guest convenience, safety, and hospitality innovation, enabling visitors to bypass traditional in-person check-in procedures once the system is implemented across hotels and holiday homes. It also represents a key milestone in delivering the objectives of the Dubai Economic Agenda, D33, which aims to reinforce Dubai’s standing…

Dubai Taxi Company (DTC) has partnered with Coca Cola Arena to provide exclusive limousine services for events at the venue, aiming to streamline transport for the thousands of visitors who pass through its doors each week. Under the agreement, DTC becomes the sole limousine operator for all arena events. The company will supply a dedicated fleet of high end limousines and taxis supported by on ground staff and real time coordination through its Operations Control Center to ensure vehicles are available as crowds leave concerts, sports fixtures and cultural shows. Coca Cola Arena, based in City Walk and able to…

The inaugural Polo Classic Cup — which took place on 7 December, 2025 — made a confident and well-attended debut at Emirates Palace Mandarin Oriental, welcoming more than 400 guests as the official Speakers’ Welcome for Abu Dhabi Finance Week (ADFW). Conceived as a refined prelude to a packed week of high-level discussion and deal-making, the event brought together global leaders from finance, technology, blockchain, and government in a setting designed to encourage meaningful conversation away from conference halls. The day commenced with opening remarks from Abdullah Al Suwaidi, chief support services officer at ADGM, who underscored Abu Dhabi’s growing…

Image: Getty Images/ For illustrative purposes Nowadays, global cities are judged as much by quality of life as by economic output. Where people want to live, companies tend to build, and investors follow. That link between daily experience and long-term growth has become central to how urban centres compete. Recognising this, Dubai has set out a 10-year Quality of Life Strategy, approved in 2024, that places wellbeing at the centre of its growth model. The plan runs to 2033 and is designed to keep pace with a city that has more than tripled in size since 2000 and continues to…

Image credit: Getty Images Australia is set to become the first country to implement a minimum age for social media use on Wednesday, December 10, with platforms like Instagram, TikTok and YouTube forced to block more than a million accounts, marking the beginning of an expected global wave of regulation. From midnight (1300 GMT), 10 of the biggest platforms will be required to block Australians aged under 16 or be fined up to A$49.5m ($33m). The law received harsh criticism from major technology companies and free speech advocates, but was praised by parents and child advocates. The rollout closes out…

Image: Getty Images/ For illustrative purposes The journey from start-up to a thriving and sustainable business is challenging and complicated, requiring entrepreneurs to wear many hats along the way. From visionary to operations manager, human resources director and chief marketing officer, business owners are required to fulfil all these roles and more, until the entity has gained a foothold in the market and has a real fighting chance of survival in its sector. But now, as founder, you’ve reached a crossroads, wondering whether you should stay on as CEO or step down. As passionate as you are, this is the…

Exxon Mobil XOM.N, Saudi’s Aramco 2222.SE and Samref on Monday signed an agreement to evaluate a significant upgrade of the Samref refinery in Yanbu, and an expansion of the facility into an integrated petrochemical complex. The companies intend to explore capital investments to upgrade and diversify production, including high-quality distillates that result in lower emissions and high-performance chemicals, Aramco said in a statement. Earlier this year, the Saudi state oil giant had signed a memorandum of understanding with Exxon to evaluate an upgrade to the Samref refinery. Samref is an equally owned joint venture between Aramco and Mobil Yanbu Refining Company, which is…

Farhan Badami, market analyst at eToro/Image: Supplied Gold is on track to close 2025 as one of the strongest-performing assets worldwide, gaining almost 60 per cent year-to-date — its best annual performance in more than four decades — according to Farhan Badami, market analyst at eToro. Despite a slight pullback from the record highs reached in October, sentiment around the metal remains robust as markets head into the Federal Reserve’s final policy meeting of the year. “Markets remain convinced that a December rate cut is coming, and the backdrop still supports that view,” Badami said. He noted that although inflation…

In what is swiftly becoming the most dramatic takeover contest in media history, Paramount Skydance has launched a hostile, all-cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), directly challenging Netflix’s blockbuster acquisition agreement. Two radically different blueprints for WBD On December 5, 2025, Netflix announced a deal to acquire WBD’s studios, streaming services and content libraries, including HBO/HBO Max, DC Entertainment/DC Studios, and Warner Bros. production, in a cash-and-stock agreement valued at roughly $82.7bn enterprise value (≈ $72bn billion equity value). Under the deal, WBD linear-TV networks (cable and traditional channels) would be spun off into a separate entity. Just days…