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Monday, 11 September 2017

What we’re tracking this week

Apple’s big iPhone reveal is just one day away now. A Sunday leak about the company’s newest iOS and devices said the “most important new phone for years will be called the iPhone X,” according to Bloomberg, picking up on what appears to have been the release by a disgruntled employee of a gold master of iOS11 to MacRumors and 9to5 Mac (here and here). The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus will also be revealed tomorrow, but the X will be “the premium version with an all-new design, crisper OLED screen, improved cameras, and a 3-D facial recognition scanner for unlocking the device.” You’ll be able to livestream the event though here at 7pm CLT (10am Pacific) from the Steve Jobs Theatre on Apple’s new campus.

Not an iSheep like us? Geoff Fowler at the Wall Street Journal has your back. Go read “Android’s Best Smartphones Raise the Bar for the Next iPhone,” which argues that “Samsung Galaxy Note 8, Essential Phone and OnePlus 5 define what it means to be a smartphone in 2017. What’s left to make Apple’s upcoming phone stand out?”

Pharos Holding is hosting its “Egypt Banking Day” eventon Wednesday, 13 September to highlight developments in the banking sector domestically. The event aims to provide insight on the banking sector through one-on-one meetings, as well as to foster closer relationships and open communications between the banks and investors. Egypt Banking Day will focus on allowing more than 40 fund managers to meet and discuss the growth of and issues surrounding the local market with local bank management teams.

Still flocking to Sharm El Sheikh are international officials and central bank governors from 94 countries have to attend the Alliance for Financial Inclusion’s (AFI) Global Policy Forum, which runs from 13-15 September. Enterprise will be joining the media horde in Sharm this week for coverage. Al Masry Al Youm notes that former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England and the incoming director of the London School of Economics, Nemat Shafik, will be giving a pre-recorded speech at the event.

The Council of State is expected to begin reviewing the executive regulations to the Investment Act, while Telecom Egypt is, once again, said to be set to launch its mobile telephone network.

The Egyptian-Sudanese-Ethiopian committee on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam convenes Thursday in Atbara, Sudan, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abou Zeid tells Ahram Gate. The assembly’s 15th meeting will discuss the report prepared by French consultants on the dam’s impact on water supplies. Negotiations had reportedly failed during meetings held last May.

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