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Casablanca Finance City has leapt up 9 places in the new ranking of the Global Financial Centers Index (GFCI) released on Monday in Busan, Korea. According to this new ranking, unveiled in the seventeenth Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 17) which rates 82 financial centers, Casablanca Finance City has moved up from the 51st rank […]
Morocco and the United Arab Emirates have concluded on Tuesday over 20 cooperation agreements covering the realms of security, politics, energy, education, sports, culture, customs, Islamic affairs, health, communications, and tourism and infrastructure. The first of these agreements, initialed in Casablanca in the presence of Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and the Crown Prince of Abu […]
The US Automaker Ford became last week the 60th international company to establish regional headquarters in Casablanca Finance City. Ford which has just obtained the CFC status will base the African regional headquarters of its branch, the Ford International Business, in Casablanca Finance City wherefrom it will manage its operations across the continent. The CFC […]
Morocco’s security experts, politicians and civil-society groups are asking the same question: will Morocco follow its regional neighbors to see a rise in radicalism? To that end, it seems that Moroccan government and its people do not fear salafists as much as they fear the Salafi Jihadism movement. This is why when Moroccan King Mohammed […]
Morocco’s long-awaited housing program for the middle class is about to be launched. The country’s housing minister, Nabil Benabdallah, announce that the new program wouuld give thousands of Moroccan families an access to affordable and decent housing. The official plan is to build about 20,000 houses by the end of 2016, and the government has […]
For the first time in Morocco’s history, a woman has been appointed earlier this month Wali (senior prefect) of the north-western region of Gharb -Chrarda- Beni Hssen. The appointment of Zineb El Adaoui to the position, the only woman out of the 15 appointed Walis, is considered a milestone in a process initiated over a […]
The International Labor Organization (ILO) is going to help Morocco to run a four-year project targeted at young unemployed. It is estimated that about 20,000 participants will go through the project co-financed by ILO. The project called “Young People at Work” intends to help young people to get into paid employment, entrepreneurship and business creation, […]
Casablanca Finance City (CFC) and Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) have signed on Monday a Memorandum of Understanding on the training of skilled professionals in financial services industry that will promote professionalism and professional standards in this industry in Morocco and throughout the region. The MoU also heralds the launch of two new […]
U.S. computer technology and IT consulting company IBM has announced lately its intention to open a global delivery center in Casablanca (Morocco’s major business center & economic capital). The center, which will employ 400 IT professionals over the next three years, is expected to deliver a wide range of high value innovative technology services to […]
Low cost airline Jetairfly, which merged with Jet4you, has announced the launch of new routes between the Netherlands, France and Morocco. These new flights will enable European passengers to travel from Nantes to Casablanca, Paris-Orly to Rabat, Toulon to Oujda and from Rotterdam to Tangier. Thanks to these new affordable connections, travelers will have the […]