In a move that is part of the investment plan of the International Company for Media Investments "IMI" with long-selling and extensive digital experience in producing economy

and business news in Arabic aimed at providing digital content and upgrading the outstanding news material, IMI and "CNN" Global Partnership Agreement launches CNN Economic as a digital platform specializing in economics, finance and business from the Middle East and North Africa region, addressed to Arabic speakers around the world, with the new platform starting its business in the fourth quarter of this year.

The CNN economic platform, which will be developed and managed by IMI in partnership with CNN, will provide economic content in Arabic that will provide the public with up-to-date economic and business information and analysis.

The content will focus on global and regional economic news, analysis, business reports, corporate news, institutions, industry, technology and markets.

CNN Economic will benefit from IMI's long-term vendors and extensive digital expertise.

The new digital platform will replace the IMI news newspaper Al-Visa to build on its extensive news expertise in general, particularly its excellence in economic and financial news, where it is a reliable provider of information in the financial and business world.

This partnership will allow CNN's economic platform to take advantage of the news materials and capabilities of CNN's global networks around the world, and will also allow the leading new economic platform to benefit from functional talent, training and consulting by CNN.

CNN's economic platform seeks to become the world's most trusted source of Arabic-language economic, financial and business news and will join a network of 10 CNN brand partners currently operating under a licensing agreement in multiple countries around the world, including Brazil, Japan, Portugal, the Philippines and Turkey.