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Blogs 13 November, 2024

Insurance Authority (IA): Unifying regulatory power for Saudi Arabia’s insurance sector

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has recently made significant changes to its regulatory landscape with the establishment of the Insurance Authority (IA), a new unified regulatory body responsible for overseeing the insurance...

Blogs 6 November, 2024

Understanding Saudi Arabia's land registry system: The role of the Real Estate General Authority and the Real Estate Registry

Saudi Arabia's rapid economic growth has spurred extensive real estate development, requiring a robust land registry system to manage property records. The land registry system, regulated primarily by the Real Estate General...

Blogs 4 November, 2024

Saudi Arabia modernises business landscape with new Commercial Register and Trade Names Laws

On 17 September 2024, Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet approved the Commercial Register Law and the Trade Names Law, set to replace existing laws and become effective 180 days after publication in the official gazette. The new laws mark a...

Blogs, Infrastructure 29 November, 2023

Diligencia to focus on infrastructure megaprojects in the Middle East & Africa

Over the last decade a dizzying number of infrastructure megaprojects across the Middle East & Africa have been initiated – ranging from transcontinental railways and integrated transport hubs to new smart cities and luxury...

Blogs, Sport 17 March, 2022

Diligencia to focus on sport in the Middle East & Africa

Later this year one of the world’s most watched sporting events, the FIFA World Cup, will be hosted in the Middle East for the first time, in Qatar....

Blogs, Clean energy 26 October, 2021

Diligencia to focus on clean energy in the Middle East & Africa

Next week, global leaders will gather in Glasgow at the UN’s climate change conference, COP26, to discuss how to reduce the devastating impact that global warming and climate change are having on our planet. This year to date has...

27 March, 2018

Diligencia 10 years on – Part 2

As I look back over the last ten years I am struck by the fact that the MENA region has seen seismic changes. Quite apart from the political upheavals, notably the so-called Arab Spring, which at times led to a revolving door of...

Blogs 25 March, 2018

Diligencia 10 years on – Part 1

10 years ago this month, I founded Diligencia. I had no particular grand strategy at that stage, and certainly no formal business plan that I could have presented to potential investors, even if there were any. All I had was a...

Blogs 24 January, 2017

COMPANIES IN THE NEWS: UAE Exchange Center

One of the most prolific outbound UAE investors,UAE Exchange Centeris now part of the same network as Travelex, following the latter’s acquisition by well-known UAE entrepreneur BR Shetty at the end of 2016....

Blogs 26 November, 2016

Tangier, Morocco and Diligencia – a growth story

Last week I made one of my regular trips back to Tangier, the town where I was born and a city where Diligencia now has a team of over 20 researchers helping us provide reliable and accurate company information for the MENA...