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23^rdAug 2025
● The potential of student loans in Saudi Arabia

● Will Saudi Arabia recognize crypto assets as properties?

● Challenge to Ride-hailing companies in Saudi Arabia
● Saudi Arabia: A Solar Powerhouse for Europe
● The Saudi TikTok challenge for international retailers
● How ‘Pay Now, Buy Later’ Can Curb Household Debt Growth in Saudi Arabia

Topics of the Week

The potential of student loans in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 is seeking a more educated workforce that can drive innovation and enhance economic growth through mainly two scholarships for the talented Saudi students to pursue higher education in top universities around the world and chiefly the United States.

Will Saudi Arabia recognize crypto assets as properties?

There’s a growing trend in which the legal system in several Western countries are increasingly recognizing the legal status of cryptocurrencies as properties, which could be used in Saudi Arabia not just to protect investors from fraud and Ponzi schemes, but to provide clarity and guidance for future legal disputes in insolvency and bankruptcy cases.

Challenge to Ride-hailing companies in Saudi Arabia

In a city as sprawling as Riyadh, the costs associated with car mobility can significantly affect one's budget if not making the right choice. Through personal experience by Argaam Weekend using two different forms of car mobility—car rentals and a ride-hailing service while comparing both against an average car finance, we have observed a stark contrast in long-term financial implications for long-term periods of usage.

Saudi Arabia: A Solar Powerhouse for Europe

By positioning itself as a solar and green energy powerhouse, Saudi Arabia can provide Europe with cost-effective, clean energy solutions, strengthening energy security while supporting the continent's efforts toward sustainable energy transitions.
This strategic alignment not only fosters economic benefits for Saudi Arabia but also positions it as a key player in the global renewable energy landscape.

The Saudi TikTok challenge for international retailers

The foreign company that is selling very expensive sports leggings for SAR229-SAR625 online in Saudi Arabia is now facing a problem. That's because other Saudi brands have started copying their style and offering similar products at SAR42-SAR81. Copying a style or design in fashion isn’t the same as violating copyright laws. other brands are free to create similar designs as long as they don't copy specific, protected elements like logos, trademarks, or patented features.

How ‘Pay Now, Buy Later’ Can Curb Household Debt Growth in Saudi Arabia

In all financial transactions related to personal loans in Saudi Arabia, the bank or finance company lends the borrower, the traditional model where the lender bears credit risk.In all financial transactions related to personal loans in Saudi Arabia, the bank or finance company lends the borrower, the traditional model where the lender bears credit risk.But what if this dynamic changed?

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