Even more so, the Emirates are just as excited as we are. In a recent article interviewing a top Canadian-Israeli businessman, Jake Levant, VP Marketing at Lightico, a high-tech company based in Tel Aviv, Levant enthusiastically and bluntly detailed what is in store for business in the UAE in the future. At a conference he attended, he was welcomed by businessmen from all walks of life, including, but not limited to royalty, CEOs, CFOs, and even well-established businessmen from Iran. The reception was very warm, friendly and Emiratis took a very keen interest in what Israelis had to say and had to offer. He elaborated by stating, “My experience in the UAE as a financial center for Israeli companies was remarkably hopeful. Unlike my experience in European cities, and more like my experiences working with financial institutions in America, the UAE has a pension for action and clarity where words are followed by deeds. When I went there, I came to understand the focus as being very forthcoming and looking at bigger opportunities. They were not just talking about the UAE market, but certainly the potential in the UAE is what they do internationally, particularly around the Gulf, the UAE has over the past 10 years has positioned itself as the ‘Singapore of the Gulf’ servicing Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and as far as India, as the financial center. It has made some good moves in that regard in that you can open up the Dubai Free Trade Zone such that you can have a tax-free entity there and work with not only the UAE, but also the Gulf. That’s really the strength of it. It tries to really minimize the regulatory overhead, and is trying to foster innovation. There is no natural innovation in the UAE. It doesn’t have the demographic or the cultural bent for innovation, but it has the will from above – The Crown Prince and all the different folks are very keen on showing that the UAE is the leader in the Gulf.  So, when they start talking about the potential, they are very aspirational and see new companies as being one of the ways they can maintain and extend their dominance in finance in the region. Now, that can come in many fashions and in many different technologies, so as part of delegations of financial companies to the UAE, we saw a lot of interest across the board, while there is everything from financial security to crypto, to working on blockchain, to more basic financial legal tech that serves them to all the way through ending. We saw a little bit of an interest, how that plays out in the next months is yet to be determined, but what was clear was that they were action-oriented and very bottom line. So, what’s the hope? The hope is that they are more than the 9 million people who live in the UAE, that they represent the more than 150 million-plus people as a market. They already have established themselves as the dominant player in financial services. They foot the infrastructure and they are speaking as if they all want to maintain that”.