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Qatar generates home-grown start-up success stories

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  In order to achieve its goal of being a centre for sustainable innovation by 2030, Qatar is giving special attention to the development of a start-up ecosystem. The backing of important stakeholders, such as Qatar Development Bank (QDB), among many others, is helping a number of locally based start-ups and scale-ups. KARTY, a FinTech platform that enables users to spend, save, and manage their funds in a single application, is one of these success stories. The start-up, which is situated in Msheireb, has raised QAR 4.3 million (USD 1.2 million) in a pre-seed round from a variety of investors, including angel investors based in Qatar and Visa, QDB, and QF. By utilizing cutting-edge technology and transaction data, KARTY seeks to revolutionize everyday banking experiences. Read more:  Qatar generates home-grown start-up success stories

Trade between Qatar and United Kingdom at new heights

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  Trade between Qatar and United Kingdom at new heights @Zawya @psa_qatar The State of Qatar and the United Kingdom will continue to deepen their long-standing trade ties and broaden their engagement and cooperation in a variety of areas. Recently, ministers from the two countries evaluated areas of shared concern with the goal of enhancing collaboration in the trade, investment, and industrial sectors. Launching a digital database to offer pertinent information to investors interested in participating across many sectors is currently being worked on. Qatar's imports have expanded as a result of the cooperation between British and Qatari businesses. The UK has removed the need for a visa for investors from Qatar in order to promote foreign direct investment. On the other hand, the State of Qatar has already implemented a number of policies to support the private sector with incentives, laws, and chances that are guaranteed, all with the goal of enticing British investment in the na

Launch of “1000 opportunities initiative” in Qatar

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Launch of “1000 opportunities initiative” in Qatar  The State of Qatar's Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI), as of late sent off the "1000 Opportunities Initiative" to work with organizations among public and confidential area. The public drive is controlled by an electronic stage that permits neighborhood financial backers to get stakes in significant public and worldwide organizations working in Qatar. It will offer open doors in future and existing activities in the modern area which has seen impressive improvement throughout the last years. Qatar is focusing on open and confidential organizations (PPP) in accordance with the Qatar National Vision 2030. Such organizations emphatically add to various areas of the economy and are valuable to little and medium endeavors (SMEs). The '1000 Opportunities Initiative' will likewise deliver an appealing business climate by confining inventory chains as well as further developing effectiveness of specialist co-ops.

Qatar announces provisional commercial licenses

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Qatar announces provisional commercial licenses   Qatar's Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) lately launched a new service to issue provisional industrial licenses for all business activities. The provider will be collectively carried out with the Ministry of Interior (MoI) and the Ministry of Labour (MoL).  The provider will be handy for business things to do together with hotels and fitness services amongst others. However, it excludes the administrative places of work category, which covers contracting, cleaning services, and others. The MoCI has prompted that specific circumstances should be met to give temporary business licenses. Read more here: qatar-announces-provisional-commercial-licences/

Qatar Central Bank develops a new FinTech strategy

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 Qatar Central Bank (QCB) will launch a new fintech approach throughout the fourth quarter of 2022. The QCB initiative is phase of a wide variety of measures being carried out to promote a digital society as the country will increase its digital choices along with in banking. Plans to license economic science agencies will be applied soon. The improve of the fee device will end result in a entirely built-in platform utilising centralised infrastructure to facilitate nationwide actual time payments. These measures will enable banks to receive contactless repayments from digital wallets among different benefits. QCB additionally printed that as the world`s main Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) exporter, Qatar’s cutting-edge financial endeavor is lots more advantageous than in 2020 and 2021. Most importantly, financial possibilities stay positive, primarily based on the recuperation in home demand, non-public area credit score increase and preparations to host the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. Accor

Qatar and German relations continue to expand

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The State of Qatar and the Federal Republic of Germany intention to make bigger their robust business and monetary funding ties. The two international locations lately signed numerous Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) which construct on the Qatari-German Joint Commission on Economic, Trade and Technical Cooperation to inspire mutual investments. Other signed MoUs in a number of sectors encompass health, sports, media, archaeology, photo voltaic energy, culture, industry, trade, civil aviation and air transport. The State of Qatar additionally signed a joint assertion of intent to similarly promote cooperation in the power sector. The settlement is anticipated to increase into a collectively advisable partnership as Germany goals to diversify its gasoline grant with the aid of the use of liquefied herbal fuel (LNG) imports from Qatar. The partnership will foster Germanys electricity safety for the duration of the transition duration toward carbon neutrality and renewable electricity s

Qatar's technology sector has a lot of potential

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 Qatar’s technological know-how zone is increasing and affords new possibilities and probabilities in line with the growth in the digital transformation. The subject matter was once debated in the latest webinar named “Back to Global - Berlin Startups Explore Opportunities in Qatar” which was once introduced via Tasmu Digital Valley and Berlin Partner. The QFC works intently with many systems and presents an easy route to structure a company. It is one of the 4 jurisdictions in the State of Qatar and presents one hundred percent overseas ownership, a felony machine primarily based on English law, one end store for preparation, formation, and operation, a fascinating tax machine with many double taxation agreements, and many different benefits. In phrases of statistics and conversation technology, Ooredoo and different key gamers are remodeling the united states into a clever and digital nation. They provide a full variety of connectivity, cloud, and IoT merchandise and offerings and ar