ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 28, 2026 For generations, Saudi Arabia’s economic power has rested on something buried beneath its desert: oil. Petroleum transformed the kingdom into one of the world’s wealthiest countries, financed enormous infrastructure projects and gave Saudi Arabia influence stretching far beyond the Middle East. Now the kingdom wants to prove it can…
ABE NEWS | September 14, 2026 In 2019, Tabby’s proposition was remarkably simple. A customer wanted to buy something online but didn’t necessarily want to pay the entire amount immediately. Tabby placed itself at checkout and allowed that purchase to be divided into instalments. No bank branch. No traditional credit-card application. No complicated financial…
ABE NEWS | September 12, 2026 Saudi Arabia has spent decades preparing for a crisis in the Strait of Hormuz. The kingdom knew that concentrating so much of its oil-export infrastructure around one of the world’s narrowest and most politically sensitive waterways created an obvious vulnerability. If tankers could no longer move safely through…
ABE NEWS | September 6, 2026 OPEC+ has decided to keep its oil-production policy unchanged for October, pausing further increases after months of gradually restoring supply while escalating tensions involving Iran continue to disrupt one of the world’s most important energy corridors. The decision was taken Sunday by the group of producers that has been…
SATURDAY ABE FOUNDERS | September 5, 2026 Warehouses are rarely glamorous. Neither are trucks. Inventory management doesn’t dominate dinner-table conversations. And few children grow up telling their parents they dream of optimizing warehouse capacity. But Naif Alzahri and Abdulrahman Alnamlah saw something different. They saw infrastructure. More specifically, they saw businesses across Saudi Arabia…
ABE NEWS | September 1, 2026 Two enormous oil tankers carrying millions of barrels of Saudi crude have been struck by unknown projectiles while attempting to leave the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, marking another dangerous escalation around the waterway that sits at the centre of the world’s energy system. The attacks…
