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8 pieces filed under banking

TechnologyJul 3

Spend Ten Minutes in Your Banking App's Settings

The security menu is the most valuable screen you never open. Limits, alerts, and card freezes do their work before anything goes wrong.

By Priya Chen

BusinessJun 9

How to Get a Salary Certificate or NOC in the UAE

Banks, landlords, schools, visa applications, and some government services may ask for salary or employer confirmation. The useful certificate is specific, dated, signed or stamped, and consistent with the labour contract.

By Sara Qureshi

OpinionJun 9

Should You Keep a Home-Country Bank Account After Moving to the UAE?

Often yes, at least during the first year. A home-country account can help with old bills, tax refunds, family support, credit history, subscriptions, and emergency travel, but it should be managed transparently.

By Diego Arroyo

BusinessJun 4

The Regional Bank Branch Has Quietly Become a Museum Piece

Why the marble lobbies are still being built, even as the actual banking has moved elsewhere, and what the lobbies are now actually for.

By Marcus Okafor

BusinessJun 3

The Regional Spreadsheet Has Quietly Become a Cultural Object

Inside the unstoppable rise of a particular file format among a particular cohort of regional professional women, and why the rest of us should pay attention.

By Sara Qureshi

WorldJun 3

Central Asia Is Quietly the Next Pipeline of Pipelines

Why a region nobody in Gulf finance was thinking about three years ago is suddenly on every infrastructure desk's whiteboard.

By Marcus Okafor

WorldJun 3

The Diaspora Is Banking Differently. The Banks Have Not Quite Noticed.

Why the remittance corridor between a particular pair of countries is being quietly disintermediated, and what the incumbent banks are doing about it, which is mostly nothing.

By Lena Holloway

BusinessJul 19

How MENA Fintech Quietly Took Over Your Wallet

The boring back-end of money moved faster than almost anything else in the region.

By Marcus Okafor