Middle East & Africa Reg Desk

Tuesday, 2026-07-28 · covering the last 24h (27–28 Jul 2026)

Gulf

No material new items from Saudi CMA/Tadawul, the UAE (SCA, DFSA/DIFC, FSRA/ADGM, DFM, ADX), Qatar's QFMA/QSE, Kuwait's CMA/Boursa Kuwait or Bahrain since the last edition. Recent open items — DFSA's Consultation Paper 173 on the DIFC funds regime and ADX's removal of ETF/futures daily price limits (effective 3 August) — predate this window with no fresh development.

Israel

No material new items from the ISA or TASE in this window. TASE's corporate-bond-index liquidity criteria reform remains scheduled to take effect 30 July, but that was announced in June and is not new today.

Africa

Egypt's FRA launches IPO-readiness programme for state-owned issuers. The Financial Regulatory Authority, with the Investment Ministry, launched a training programme on 26 July to prepare provisionally-listed state-owned companies for final public offerings on EGX. Delivered by the FRA's Financial Services Institute and the Egyptian Institute of Directors, the first cycle covers listing and disclosure rules and governance for 14 of the roughly 20 companies with provisional EGX listings, ahead of a planned expansion to about 30 more — a regulator-led step in EGX's state-privatisation listing pipeline. Daily News Egypt

No other material new items from South Africa's FSCA/JSE, Nigeria's SEC/NGX, Kenya's CMA/NSE or Morocco's AMMC in this window.

Informational only — summaries of public regulatory sources; not advice.