Recently, a doctor booking startup platform, Meddy in Qatar, has raised $2.5 million in a Series A round. The Modus Capital of New York led the round, and many investors joined it, such as Turkey’s 212, Kasamar holdings from Abu Dhabi, Qatar Science and Technology Park, Innoway, Dharmendra Ghai who is a health tech person and many more.

Meddy provides an innovative platform for the patients to find doctors as well as hospitals for the treatment. People can easily book appointments via this platform. It is easy to search for a doctor with particular specializations, treatments, education, language, and other things by applying filters. The company was founded in Qatar in 2016. You can also rate and write reviews about the doctor on this platform.

The company also provides other products and services to the clinics and their marketing teams to supervise the bookings, analytics, and patient reviews. There is a big hand of Meddy behind the increasing profitability of doctors as it helps in getting new customers by its online platform. According to Meddy, it has provided thousands of bookings and generated over $50 million in clinics and hospital billings in Qatar and UAE.

Last year, Meddy had expanded its services to UAE via Dubai and Sharjah. Now, it is planning to expand in Abu Dhabi. The co-founder and CEO of Meddy, Haris Aghadi, said that the company is planning to expand across the world. He continued that after the expansion of their services to the UAE, the rate of bookings has been doubled. The company got positive feedbacks from the people, and it is continuously growing rapidly.

Amid the violent anti-government protests that are taking place in Hong Kong, HSBC Holdings highlighted some routine regulatory needs to make sure that client money has been used for the mentioned purposes. Earlier, there was a report on Monday that claimed that the bank is closing a corporate account that assisted in funding the large scale protests activities in Hong Kong.

Last week, the city witnessed one of the most violent protests in over 5 months of demonstrations. And, members of the Chinese military were seen cleaning up the city’s streets.

According to the Hong Kong Economic Journal, HSBC Holding immediately resorted to action after discovering the account was apparently used without conforming to its original paperwork. The bank also provided this information to the client that it would shut the account following a 30-day notice that comes to an end this week. However, the bank did not elaborate on the identity of the account holder.

Hong Kong has been gripped by a wave of violent protests. There have been more than four months of political unrest, traffic violations and surging levels of violence in Hong Kong. And, now universities all over Hong Kong have become the latest battleground. Protestors’ clash with riot police has paralyzed the city’s economy.

The polarizing protests caused troubles for many renowned companies that may include Apple and Activision Blizzard, among others. The companies are under immense political pressure to severe all perceived links with the city’s pro-democracy protests, which causes them to face public backlash later on.

Meanwhile, 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund claimed on Monday on its Facebook page that its HSBC account is functioning normally. The organization assists protestors in paying medical expenditures and legal fees.

HSBC Holding Plc has emerged as the leading British multinational investment bank and financial services holding company. It became the 7^th largest bank all across the globe by 2018.

Addenda, an insurance blockchain association, based in UAE, is done with its seed fundraising round, as per the official announcement. With these fresh investments, the firm not only plans to scale up its marketing and sales efforts but also boost product development. In addition to that, Addenda intends to establish and broaden their operations in more GCC nations.

The amount of the funds has not yet been disclosed. The fundraising round saw participants from noted organizations such as 500 Startups, Beyond Capital, and Jada Investments, to name a few among a list of angel investors.

Sharif El-Badawi, 500 Startup’s Managing Partner, shared his views on this latest announcement saying that they are thrilled to partner with Addenda. Terming Addenda’s blockchain solution as first-of-its-kind in the Middle East, Sharif stated that they are proud of Addenda’s founders, as well as their team, for having introduced a feasible product powered by blockchain technology that the insurance sector can adopt.

Addenda, the blockchain firm that has two brothers Karim Davis Dib and Walid Daniel Dib as founders, was established last year in March. Addenda has also become a part of the second unit of the DIFC (Dubai International Financial Centre) Fintech Hive.

The company came out with its first blockchain reconciliation platform between insurance firms in mid-October. According to Addenda’s CEO, Walid Daniel Dib, the platform saw 8 insurance firms filing motor insurance claims worth over Dh700,000 against one another within a couple of weeks from the launch.

Olly Robbins, Britain’s former Brexit negotiator, will be joining US investment bank, Goldman Sachs. As per the news, he will be joining the US bank later in 2020 as a Managing Director. He had served as the chief Brexit negotiator and the Europe advisor of the former British PM Theresa May before he took over this offer. He has been offered a six-figure salary for the post. The appointment is confirmed by the Cabinet Office and approved by the advisory committee that screens post-government jobs for politicians.

Olly Robbins will be joining the US bank after a sabbatical at Oxford University. He will be designated with the Heywood Fellowship for the first time in the history of the University. This is a new Fellowship award established in the memory of Jeremy Heywood, the former Cabinet Secretary. His strong dedication towards work has earned him such a prestigious award.

He had served under 4 British Prime Ministers with utmost dedication and impartial attitude. Robbins headed talks that led the former British PM Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement that formed the basis of UK’s exit from the EU bloc. However, Prime Minister Theresa May repeatedly failed to garner enough support for this deal and she resigned earlier this year. Before resigning she granted knighthood to Robbins for his excellent dedication towards work. This did not stop the Brexiters to criticize Robbins. Despite owning all the credit for negotiating the Chequers deal, Robbins became unpopular amongst the Brexit supporters due to this withdrawal agreement. After Robbins announced that he would quit from this position, the new British PM Borris Johnson paid tribute to Robbin’s proposals and said that this deal would turn Britain into a “vassal state.”