Qatar Development Bank

Qatar Development Bank
Company type	Public
Industry	Bank and Finance
Founded	1997
Headquarters	Grand Hamad Street; P.O.Box: 22789; Doha, Qatar
Key people	Abdulaziz Bin Nasser Al-Khalifa, CEO; HE Ali Ahmad Al-Kuwari, Chairman
Website	www.qdb.qa

Qatar Development Bank (QDB), previously known as Qatar Industrial Development Bank, is a bank in Qatar offering financial services, banking and loans to the development of the industrial, tourism, educational, health care, agricultural, animal resources and fisheries sectors of the Qatari economy. It was created in 1997 by Emiri Decree No. 14 with the objective of diversifying Qatar's economy by promoting developmental projects.^[1]

Qatar Business Incubation Center

The Qatar Business Incubation Center (QBIC) was established in a joint venture by QDB and the Social Development Center in 2010, and officially started operating in March 2014. As the most extensive mixed-use incubator facility in the Middle East, its aim is to promote companies and finance business ideas. All the center's facilities are split up into stages and spread across 20,000 sq meters.^[2]

The center has signed many agreements with global companies to promote investments and swap knowledge; for example, in 2015, the center signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Microsoft Qatar in order to encourage entrepreneurial ventures in Qatar's technology industry.^[3]

References

^ "Annual Report 2009" (PDF). Qatar Development Bank. 2009. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
^ "Qatar supports entrepreneurs and start-ups". Oxford Business Group. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
^ "Q Magazine US (issue 3)" (PDF). gco.gov.qa. June 2017. p. 14. Retrieved 22 September 2017.