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QNB Group now an official sponsor of the FIFA World Cup 2022

Qatar’s largest bank says it looks forward to helping make the Qatar 2022 World Cup a ‘success to be remembered for generations’. FIFA announced on Wednesday that QNB- the largest…

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ATM upgrades? Where to deposit your new banknotes

Customers of QNB, QIB, HSBC and CB of Qatar can now deposit the new denominations of Qatari riyals in deposit machines. Citizens and residents of Qatar will now be able…

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Qatar’s major banks set for wearable payment technology

With the ongoing pandemic destroying the global economy, a new era of cashless digital payment emerges. Qatar’s largest financial institutions have accelerated the adoption of new technology for payments, seeking…

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UBS pushes expansion into the Middle East with new Qatar office

The investment bank is looking into breaking into Qatar, the country with the highest GDP per capita. UBS Group AG is tapping into the Qatari market to add investment banking…

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Qatar First Bank expands US portfolio with award-winning property

The local bank has acquired yet another American property in Texas as it continues to gain accesses to the US real estate market. Qatar First Bank [QFB] purchased a building…

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UAE Crown Prince and Banque Havilland ‘planned Qatar’s economic downfall’

Direct links established between Mohammed Bin Zayed and the Luxembourg-based private bank in a Bloomberg report. The emergence of direct links between Mohammed bin Zayed, or MBZ as he’s commonly…

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Qatar’s Commercial Bank announces new CEO

Abraham replaces Abdulla Saleh Al Raisi, who held the position for nearly three years and has been "promoted to Advisor to the Board of Directors," the Qatar-based bank said in a statement this week.

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Cyber expert: Qatar leak could have been part of a wider hack

Writing about the hack on Trend Micro's blog site yesterday, Edwards said that an initial inspection of the documents suggests the hacker "breached bank data to build up profiles on specific individuals in order to launch follow-on attacks."

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QNB quiet as security experts offer advice following data hack

QNB has so far not published any instructions for its customers and has not offered any new updates today after news of the leak broke yesterday.

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