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Country of Origin: United Arab Emirates (U.A.E) Dubai Financial Market (DFM) – PJSC (the “Company”) is a Public Joint Stock Company incorporated in the Emirate of Dubai – United Arab Emirates, pursuant to decree No. 62 for the year 2007 issued by the Ministry of Economy on February 6, 2007, and is subject to the provision of the UAE, Federal Law No. 8 for the year 1984 and its amendments. The licensed activities of the company are trading in financial instruments, acting as commercial, industrial and agricultural holding and trust company, financial investment consultancy, and brokerage local and foreign shares and bonds. In accordance with its Articles of Association, the Company complies in all its activities, operations and formalities with the provisions of Islamic Shari’a and shall invest its entire fund in accordance with these provisions. The company’s shares are listed on the Dubai Financial Market (“DFM”). The company currently operates the Dubai Stock Exchange, related clearing house and carries out investment activities on its own behalf. The ultimate parent and controlling party is the Government of Dubai which owns 80% of DFM through Borse Dubai Limited (the “parent”), a Government of Dubai entity.

Country of Origin: United Arab Emirates (U.A.E) Emirates Islamic Bank formerly Middle East Bank (the “Bank”) was incorporated by a decree of His Highness the Ruler of Dubai as a conventional Bank with limited liability in the Emirate of Dubai on 3rd of October 1975. The Bank was re-registered as a Public Joint Stock Company in July 1995 and is regulated by Central Bank of United Arab Emirates. At an extraordinary general meeting held on 10th of March 2004, a resolution was passed to transform the Bank’s activities to be in full compliance with the Islamic Sharia’. The entire process was completed on 9th of October 2004 (the “Transformation Date”) when the Bank obtained UAE Central Bank and other UAE authorities’ approvals. The Bank is a subsidiary of Emirates NBD PJSC, Dubai (the “Group Holding Company”). The ultimate parent company of the Group Holding Company is Investment Corporation of Dubai, the company in which the Government of Dubai is the major shareholders. The Bank is listed at Dubai Financial Market.