Dubai International Financial Centre’s FinTech Hive is holding its Investor Day on Monday, where 17 start-ups from the fourth cohort of the accelerator's programme will connect with investors and industry experts and present their business ideas to seek funding.
Start-ups will pitch their innovative ideas and technologies before an online audience of investors, industry leaders and knowledge partners, the DIFC said in a statement.
Selected companies come from a wide range of sectors such as financial technology, regulatory technology and Islamic FinTech. They address key technology issues in the areas of open banking, artificial intelligence, anti-money laundering and data analytics.
The solutions sourced for this year’s DIFC FinTech Hive accelerator programme have been very unique and mature, said Raja Al Mazrouei, executive vice president of DIFC FinTech Hive, adding that the participants have developed technologies that will shape the future of finance.
“This year’s cohort has worked relentlessly with our partners to ensure they are ready to be connected with investors,” she added.
The accelerator programme's latest batch has attracted leading technology entrepreneurs and start-ups from different regions including the GCC, Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
Participants were selected through an intensive, competitive process to participate in a 14-week curriculum that helps growth-stage companies expand in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region.
The financial free zone, which launched the FinTech Hive in 2017 in partnership with Accenture – the New York-listed technology firm, has developed it into one of the biggest FinTech accelerators in the region. So far, it has received more than 1,400 applications and more than 100 start-ups have been selected to participate in its accelerator programme.
The Uefa Awards winners
Uefa Men's Player of the Year: Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)
Uefa Women's Player of the Year: Lucy Bronze (Lyon)
Best players of the 2018/19 Uefa Champions League
Goalkeeper: Alisson (Liverpool)
Defender: Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)
Midfielder: Frenkie de Jong (Ajax)
Forward: Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
Uefa President's Award: Eric Cantona
WOMAN AND CHILD
Director: Saeed Roustaee
Starring: Parinaz Izadyar, Payman Maadi
Rating: 4/5
Museum of the Future in numbers
- 78 metres is the height of the museum
- 30,000 square metres is its total area
- 17,000 square metres is the length of the stainless steel facade
- 14 kilometres is the length of LED lights used on the facade
- 1,024 individual pieces make up the exterior
- 7 floors in all, with one for administrative offices
- 2,400 diagonally intersecting steel members frame the torus shape
- 100 species of trees and plants dot the gardens
- Dh145 is the price of a ticket
Gertrude Bell's life in focus
A feature film
At one point, two feature films were in the works, but only German director Werner Herzog’s project starring Nicole Kidman would be made. While there were high hopes he would do a worthy job of directing the biopic, when Queen of the Desert arrived in 2015 it was a disappointment. Critics panned the film, in which Herzog largely glossed over Bell’s political work in favour of her ill-fated romances.
A documentary
A project that did do justice to Bell arrived the next year: Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum’s Letters from Baghdad: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Gertrude Bell. Drawing on more than 1,000 pieces of archival footage, 1,700 documents and 1,600 letters, the filmmakers painstakingly pieced together a compelling narrative that managed to convey both the depth of Bell’s experience and her tortured love life.
Books, letters and archives
Two biographies have been written about Bell, and both are worth reading: Georgina Howell’s 2006 book Queen of the Desert and Janet Wallach’s 1996 effort Desert Queen. Bell published several books documenting her travels and there are also several volumes of her letters, although they are hard to find in print. Original documents are housed at the Gertrude Bell Archive at the University of Newcastle, which has an online catalogue.
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Man of the match Son Heung-min (Tottenham)
