Middle East & Africa Reg Desk

Monday, 2026-08-31 · covering the last 72h

Gulf

No material items from Saudi CMA/Tadawul, UAE SCA/DFSA/FSRA/DFM/ADX, Qatar QFMA/QSE or Kuwait CMA/Boursa Kuwait across the Thursday–Sunday trading sessions covered by this window. No Fed rate move has occurred since the last edition, so there is no dollar-peg follow-through to report from SAMA, CBUAE, QCB or CBK.

Israel

No material ISA, TASE or Bank of Israel items in the window. The Monetary Committee's next rate decision is due 1 September, just outside this window; the last move was a 25bp cut to 3.50% on 6 July.

Africa

No new items from South Africa FSCA/JSE/SARB, Kenya CMA/NSE/CBK or Morocco AMMC/Bank Al-Maghrib in the window; the comment period on the FSCA's proposed amendments to JSE Listings Requirements (removing separate non-binding remuneration votes) closed around 28 August with no outcome published yet. Both open items remain unresolved: Egypt's short-selling framework (FRA Resolution 155) still has no confirmed trading-launch date; Nigeria's NGX has not announced a new effective date for its postponed equity pricing-methodology relaunch.

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