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Shayne Nelson, Group CEO at Emirates NBD |
There is a museum on the 15th floor of Emirates NBD’s head office in Dubai. Renowned for its extraordinary, priceless collection of pearls, once the lifeblood of Dubai’s economy and the main reason for the city’s very existence, the museum also chronicles the financial history of the city and its currencies through the years.
But the most important artefact is wholly unassuming: two creased and slightly smudged pages of A4 lined paper with handwritten Arabic in blue ink, signed in the presence of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in his Zabeel Palace in March 2007, after lunch and a spot of tea.
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