Dubai is seeking to stimulate growth among the emirate’s start-ups with the release of a white paper outlining solutions to improve access to funding, offer greater support and build investment networks for small businesses.
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New financing and financial security channels are likely to help export and re-exporting firms in Dubai cement recent gains and create a foundation for the emirate’s further growth as a retail transit centre.
In a boost to its standing as a centre for advanced research and innovation, Dubai has been chosen to host an affiliate centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network, an initiative of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Articles & Analysis | Reassuring trend: New reinsurance programmes are bolstering coverage against natural disasters in developing economies from The Report: Dubai 2019
While advanced economies generate the vast majority of insurance and reinsurance business, emerging markets are posting higher rates of growth. Complementing this underlying trend is a strong and expanding interest in catastrophic risk, which by nature tends to pertain to emerging markets. This is coming alongside fast-paced, sector-...
Articles & Analysis | InsurTech taps premium growth potential in emerging markets from The Report: Dubai 2019
Two of the biggest trends in global insurance in recent years are premium growth in emerging markets and the rising importance of technology across the supply chain. The latter has come to be referred to as InsurTech, a potentially disruptive trend that heralds both threats to and opportunities for incumbents and newcomers alike. While...
Articles & Analysis | As new technologies and products emerge, Dubai is leading the drive to standardise Islamic financial services from The Report: Dubai 2019
Dubai has a growing and multi-tiered insurance sector, with options including a conventional market as well as an offshore segment that features specialists and reinsurers that cover the region. The sector is part of the larger UAE’s insurance industry, in which federal regulators and laws oversee providers that operate nationwide as well as...