Abu Dhabi – MEIRA

The Abu Dhabi Chapter was launched in June 2012 as the sixth MEIRA Country Chapter. The founding member companies consisted of the Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange, FAB, TAQA, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and Agthia.

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Sun, 15 Feb, 2015

SCA Investor Relations Guidelines

In February 2015, the UAE’s Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) issued the first Investor Relations (IR) guidelines for publicly listed companies. The guidelines make it mandatory for listed companies to implement a range of reporting and disclosure standards.

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Fri, 04 Oct, 2019

Middle East IR Practitioners Survey 2019

The Middle East IR Practitioners Survey 2019, produced by MEIRA in collaboration with Carter Murray, was released at the 2019 MEIRA Annual Conference. This year's report includes some case studies and interviews with IR professionals in order to analyse the results of our annual survey.

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Tue, 30 Jul, 2019

ADX ESG Disclosure Guidance

In July 2019, ADX published this guidance to support voluntary disclosure of ESG information by its listed companies.

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Sun, 04 Oct, 2020

Crisis Communications: Developing an IR strategy for COVID-19

The impact of COVID-19 is being felt broadly, across all regions, sectors and markets. The Investor Relations (IR) professional plays a critical role in how a company communicates through rapidly changing market dynamics. In addition to a well-thought-out crisis communications plan, it is crucial for companies to showcase basic tenets of good corporate governance, such as their leadership and business resiliency, as well as to maintain control of the dialogue when handling a crisis like COVID-19.

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Wed, 10 Jun, 2020

Post-COVID-19: Reshaping business in the Middle East

For nearly all public companies in the region, the Covid-19 pandemic has created unique and profound challenges. The effects of the pandemic, including business interruption as a result of social distancing and closure policies, have meant that management and the Board have had to address unprecedented headwinds and adapt quickly to weather the storm. As restrictions begin to ease across the region and business leaders begin to prepare for operations in a post Covid-19 world, MEIRA surveyed issuers across the region to understand common challenges companies are facing, where priorities lie for management and the Board, and how companies can improve engagement with investors during and after this time.

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Tue, 02 Jun, 2020

COVID-19: The Governance Imperative

Let’s consider two companies. First, one in the manufacturing, dairy and food sector, of course, particularly crucial in times of food safety and security. And the other in the banking sector, again, in many ways, providing the economic lifeblood of funding to regional companies. Both companies represent clear, purposeful, yet nuanced strategic and tactical approaches to the worst global pandemic in our lifetime. To set the scene and better understand the context of the adverse operating and regulatory environment, we asked a leading capital markets lawyer to help us understand the response from regulators in a time of COVID-19. As in all our MEIRA Word articles, the pivotal role of IR will feature front and centre.

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Tue, 24 Mar, 2020

Investor communication in a time of uncertainty

Each day, IROs are presented with new and seemingly impossible challenges to overcome. The outbreak of the COVID-19 has impacted the capital markets but also the entire world and its population. During a crisis, a successful IR function should focus on proactively engaging and communicating with the investment community. This white paper presents some practical pointers to understand how to successfully manage a crisis from an IR perspective, but also some international case studies on how corporates are addressing the current pandemic challenges.

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Wed, 18 Mar, 2020

MEIRA Word: Crisis, what crisis?

We’ll start with the topical case of DP World and its recent announcement that it plans to delist from Nasdaq Dubai this year. While on the face of it, this is a story that hit the markets hard, there is always another way to look at this. Above all, one common element in all our MEIRA Word articles will be the role of IR. We are fortunate to have DP World, a perennial IR award winner, as a supportive member willing to share their IR best practice.

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Thu, 12 Jul, 2018

The impact of VAT on Investor Relations

This white paper explores the main challenges of VAT implementation for the Investor Relations profesionals in the GCC.

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Mon, 05 Jun, 2017

On the hot seat: Sofia El Boury, Head of IR at FAB

In the context of the "Annual IR Practitioners Survey" launched by MEIRA, in collaboration with Hanson Search, Felice Hurst, Managing Director at Hanson Search MENA, interviewed Sofia El Boury, who has been recently appointed Head of IR of First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB).

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Chapter Head

Sofia El Boury

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Sofia is the Head of Investor Relations of First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), result of the merger between First Gulf Bank (FGB) and National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) in April 2017. In her current role, she oversees all investor-related activities and is responsible for developing and implementing an effective IR program designed to ensure accurate understanding of the company’s story and strategy, and to enhance investor confidence in its value proposition. Previously, she was Head of Investor Relations at First Gulf Bank (FGB), a role she has occupied since 2013. Before moving to Investor Relations, Sofia was a sell-side equity research analyst for more than 7 years, and was heading the Banks & Financials coverage team at Dubai-based SHUAA Capital.

Sofia holds postgraduate degrees in financial management and control from Paris Dauphine University, and in international management from the American University in Washington, DC. She has been an active Board Member at MEIRA since 2014.