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The latest insight in our risk and resilience series outlines how organisations can strengthen contractual readiness and protect their position under UAE law. This series is developed to support business leaders to build confidence, resilience and continuity through disruption.

In the next part of our risk and resilience series, we focus on identifying critical services, understanding dependencies and building decision‑making that holds under sustained pressure. This series is developed to support business leaders to build confidence, resilience and continuity through disruption.

The next part of our risk and resilience series explores how organisations can strengthen AML, sanctions and proliferation financing resilience — balancing speed, judgement and regulatory expectation. This series is developed to support business leaders to build confidence, resilience and continuity through disruption.

In a new Grant Thornton series on trending international insights, we examine the wider impact of tariffs on the mid-market, where a dip in market confidence at the start of 2025 was just the start of more to come. The global economy may suffer further as trade tensions and uncertainty persist, but if there’s a silver lining, its likely to be found in the mid-market – the most resilient and opportunistic segment of the business landscape.

In the next edition of Grant Thornton’s series on trending international insights, we examine how a shifting economic landscape can offer the mid-market an opportunity to grow while their larger counterparts opt to ‘wait and see.’ Our report highlights key trends such as digital trade, supply chain resilience, shifting trade agreements, and the impact of geopolitical uncertainty on international commerce.

The logistics sector within the MENA region is well-positioned to benefit from post-COVID 19 economic recovery. Our team of subject matter experts provide a global and regional economic outlook and give insights into what the logistics sector can expect in 2022 in our latest Logistics Sector Focus.

In this paper we explore Trade-Based Money Laundering in further detail focused in particular on the December 2020 FATF publication “Trade-Based Money Laundering, Trends and Developments”* and provide guidance to Financial Institutions and other entities on how to assess, mitigate, identify and report the financial crime threats arising from the global trade system.

Fortunately, our understanding of how to address the challenges of COVID-19 is improving every day. Our medical and scientific communities are learning and adopting new strategies to deal with the current global crisis, as are the world's policymakers.

In a race against time, governments are issuing directives on effective precautions against the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) globally to prepare for what is to come as peak-virus over the next 4 to 6 weeks.

Let’s call a meeting to discuss COVID-19 epidemic risk management. No, let's not. Calling a meeting creates a state of panic and promotes congregating in groups at a time when a virus can be transmitted to two people from one infected person- it is not a good idea. What is, however, is having team leaders, risk champions, business continuity professionals, Human Resources, and communications teams collaborate online and agree on a comprehensive strategy to manage the risk and here is how to do it.

FIs need to re-focus their businesses and reconsider strategies to respond to the large amount of regulation, in an economic environment that is fundamentally more restraining. This can be achieved via five key areas of transformation for 2020 and beyond.