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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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...