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WHAT'S NEW?: Moves away from traditional, hierarchical, full-time structures towards a gig and shared economy continue apace. New models of virtual working and work anywhere, anytime for anybody are likely to grow dramatically in the coming years.

• [New] Preventive Health Check-up packages are the fastest-growing segment over 2026-2033, directly aligned with the UAE National Preventive Health Strategy under UAE Vision 2031 and expanding digital health platforms enabling personalized preventive screening recommendations. Persistence Market Research
• [New] Ongoing business uncertainty is hampering non-residential building investment, while residential building growth will slow down to 1.6% in 2026 and 1.2% in 2027. atradius
• [New] Roughly a quarter of 2027's business relies on labs financed by NVDA, while contingent liabilities and customer custom chips threaten future demand. Seeking Alpha
• [New] The financial services sector globally is undergoing a profound digital transformation driven by capital adequacy requirements, stakeholder pressure, and competitive necessity to integrate environmental and social risk factors into lending, investment, and risk management decisions. Persistence Market Research
• [New] Commercial oil production is expected to begin, potentially generating new government revenues, investment and business opportunities across one of East Africa's largest economies. The Fintech Times
• [New] Intelligence & Espionage Threats: As a high-profile U.S. tech entity, Netflix could be a target for intelligence gathering (e.g. content strategy, user data from foreign agencies). Risk Intelligence Service
• [New] Industry demand is increasingly influenced by the automotive sector's transition to electric vehicles, which are expected to constitute nearly 30% of all vehicle sales globally by 2030. 6wresearch
• [New] Generative AI chips alone are expected to approach 00 billion in revenue in 2026, or roughly half of global chip sales according to Deloitte research. Alphio AI
• Wealthy individuals can choose between London, Dubai, Miami, Monaco, Switzerland, Singapore and other global wealth centers depending on lifestyle, taxation, business opportunities, security and connectivity. Kalkine
• An organization might use Azure for Microsoft-centric workloads, AWS for certain application platforms, and Google Cloud for specific data or AI workloads. Sphinx WorldBiz Limited
• Novo Nordisk offers discounted valuations that are exposed for the long haul, have a maturing pipeline, and have real AI initiatives that could shorten R&D timelines and costs slightly while compounding benefits across their businesses. tradingkey.com
• The International Federation of Robotics projects that service robot installations in retail and wholesale will grow at over 15% annually through 2027. Persistence Market Research
• The Health Sector Transformation Program, under the Saudi Vision 2030 initiative, is designed to fundamentally reform healthcare in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by improving quality, expanding accessibility, and ensuring financial sustainability. PubMed Central (PMC)
• Training, attracting, and retaining talent: An estimated 130,000 skilled workers will be required to double the power of Canada's electricity grid by 2050. Torys LLP
• When benchmarked against other global expat centers, Dubai is still more affordable than Hong Kong, Singapore, London, or New York, while offering comparable quality of life, infrastructure, and career potential. April International - International Health Insurance
• The association called for high-level talks between Bangladesh and the UAE to restore the opportunity for Bangladeshi workers to change employers internally, a facility they said has been unavailable for nearly 12 years. The Daily Star
• Groceryshop 2026 will spotlight how AI-powered shopping, retail media and unified commerce are reshaping grocery and CPG retail, alongside developments in business operations, consumer expectations and customer engagement. Coresight Research
• The new Australian Electoral Management System will be a modern and flexible platform better able to accommodate the increasing size and complexity of Australia's federal elections. Australian Electoral Commission
• As competition in space intensifies, Washington will need to continue to find ways to align private commercial interests with national strategic ones. / USA DebateUS
• The European Cloud & Edge strategy, funded under the DIGITAL programme, is expected to have a significant impact on the agricultural sector by enabling the full use of cloud-to-edge infrastructures and services for the common European agricultural data space. Shaping Europe's digital future

Last updated: 28 September 2026