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Business Arabia is the first - and leading - business and financial news program in the Middle East region. Produced and Presented by Nadine Hawa at CNBC Arabiya, the weekly half-hour program draws on an extensive regional newsgathering infrastructure to deliver a comprehensive round-up of the week's top business stories and news.

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This weekend on Business Arabia: NASDAQ Dubai merges its trading platform with the DFM. Just a little over a month ago, NASDAQ Dubai started outsourcing its trading, settlement, clearing, and custody functions for equities, to the Dubai Financial Market, as part of a strategy to increase trading of its equities by individual investors as well as bring them together in one liquidity pool with institutional investors.

We speak to Jeff Singer, the CEO at NASDAQ Dubai, who gives us details on the operation, its success, and at a time of heightened uncertainty, answered the question of what next for UAE exchanges.