{"id":624526,"date":"2026-09-23T03:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624526\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T03:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:28:11","slug":"gulf-tech-firms-turn-to-hong-kong-and-singapore-as-iran-war-grinds-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624526\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf tech firms turn to Hong Kong and Singapore as Iran war grinds on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Bratby had already drawn up plans for expanding to <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hong Kong<\/a> when war broke out in the Middle East earlier this year.But the founder of xBratAI, a Dubai-based AI-powered trading signals platform, soon brought that timeline forward as the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/us-israel-war-iran?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iran conflict<\/a> dragged on and widened in scope.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOur Hong Kong entity had been scheduled for a few years later, but we established it in early 2026,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bratby is not alone in looking east. As missiles continue <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3368131\/houthis-claim-attacks-saudi-capital-after-flames-seen-near-riyadh-airport?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">to target Gulf capitals<\/a> and shipping lanes, digital businesses and investors are increasingly setting up shop in Hong Kong and <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/singapore?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Singapore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Bratby had already drawn up plans for expanding to Hong Kong when war broke out in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1585,282365,282367,337,18292,5355,114,1120,46124,35319,3448,8954,85,87,46,47,282366,1490],"class_list":["post-624526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-ali-moosa","tag-anndy-lian","tag-asia","tag-bahrain","tag-britain","tag-business","tag-dubai","tag-east-asia","tag-gulf","tag-hong-kong","tag-houthis","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-paul-bratby","tag-red-sea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}