Middle East & Africa Reg Desk

Thursday, 2026-09-10 · covering the last 24h

Gulf

No material items from Saudi CMA/Tadawul, UAE SCA/DFSA/FSRA/DFM/ADX, Qatar QFMA/QSE, Kuwait CMA/Boursa Kuwait or Oman/Bahrain in the window, and no new regulatory circulars from SAMA, CBUAE, QCB or CBK.

Israel

No material ISA, TASE or Bank of Israel rule items in the window.

Africa

Egypt's central depository moves its securities-lending platform into final testing. MCDR has entered final testing of Egypt's first centralized securities-lending-and-borrowing system, with EGX and the FRA targeting a limited broker pilot in November; the platform operationalizes the FRA's short-selling/SLB framework (Board Decision 155 of 2026), which set a 50%-of-market-value collateral floor and daily mark-to-market requirements. (Trade-press report; FRA's own portal could not be reached to confirm a primary document.) Enterprise coverage

No other material items from South Africa FSCA/JSE/SARB (JSE's initial-margin recalibration was reported 9 September), Nigeria SEC/NGX/CBN, Kenya CMA/NSE/CBK or Morocco AMMC/Bank Al-Maghrib in the window.

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