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Nol Cards and the Future of Money

Nol Cards and the Future of Money

ALEXANDER MCNABB: You’ll have a clash between the RTA, telcos and banks: Who will ‘own’ mobile money? Suddenly the Nol card becomes really interesting.

Illiterate Women Teach Me an Invaluable Lesson

Illiterate Women Teach Me an Invaluable Lesson

LAMA TABET: I had to teach groups of poor Lebanese women how to manage household budgets. Everything was going fine until one group presented me with a major problem.

Nosy Parker

Nosy Parker

How Alexander McNabb plans to ignore his rule of having as little to do with his bank as possible on the grounds that it’s invariably bad for his health, and bankrupt HSBC Middle East 20 dirhams at a time using valet parking.