UAE
The Gulf’s business and travel hub, built on making it effortless for the world’s money and talent to land somewhere convenient — and it shows in every new deal.
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Sep- 2026 -16 SeptemberTech & AI
Iran’s strikes erased AWS’s entire Bahrain cloud region permanently
Amazon declared the me-south-1 region and one UAE availability zone unrecoverable on September 15 after March and April missile strikes, turning a regional outage into permanent data loss for customers…
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16 SeptemberTech & AI
Anthropic arrives in Singapore to challenge OpenAI’s regional grip
Claude's unusually high per-capita usage in Singapore gives Anthropic product pull, but OpenAI's government partnership and S$300 million commitment present a formidable barrier to converting demand into enterprise contracts.
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16 SeptemberCompass
Dubai’s recovery is real. The security warnings aren’t going away.
With 869,000 international visitors in August 2026 and hotel occupancy at 66%, the UAE is pushing Western governments to lift travel advisories—but insurance policies and corporate travel rules still key…
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14 SeptemberTech & AI
Missile strikes force UAE to scatter its 5GW AI campus across emirates
After March drone attacks damaged AWS facilities in the Gulf, Abu Dhabi is redesigning its flagship Stargate project as a network of hardened, dispersed sites with air defences and underground…
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7 SeptemberCapital
Standard Chartered puts Bitcoin and Ether on FX rails in Dubai
The UK bank's DIFC unit now routes deliverable spot trades through the same electronic systems institutions use for foreign exchange, with DFSA-licensed custody already in place.
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7 SeptemberPower
UAE builds Hormuz bypass as Gulf trust fractures over Iran
Presidential adviser Anwar Gargash warned that restoring regional confidence could take decades, while the Emirates expands eastern ports and rail to shield energy exports from strait disruption.
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Aug- 2026 -30 AugustCapital
A UAE spy chief now controls a US crypto bank issuing dollar stablecoins
Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al Nahyan, the UAE's national security advisor, holds 49 percent of World Liberty Trust Company through his investment vehicle, placing a foreign intelligence official over dollar-backed…
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24 AugustCapital
Chinese fintech is betting billions on AI payments before the market exists
Lianlian DigiTech's adjusted operating profit surged 147 per cent to RMB156 million in H1 2026, even as reported net income collapsed 99 per cent—a deliberate trade-off to fund an Agent…
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21 AugustCapital
Capital.com got a UAE crypto licence. The service doesn’t exist yet.
Capital Vault Virtual Services received a full virtual-asset licence from the UAE Capital Market Authority on 20 August 2026, authorising spot crypto custody and dealing, but with no launch date,…
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20 AugustCapital
UAE stablecoin reaches retail wallets but cannot buy groceries
Bitcoin.com integrated USDU, a central-bank-registered dollar token, on August 19, but UAE rules restrict it to digital asset purchases only, capping retail adoption.
