HerSphere Insights
Honest, practical perspectives on business, finances, and life as a woman building her future in the UAE.
Meet the Partner: Charis Marr, In Good Wealth
For many women rebuilding their lives in the UAE, money is a conversation they don't quite know where to start. Not because information isn't available, but because so much of it comes in the form of a sales pitch or a spreadsheet, with very little room in between for someone to simply understand where they stand and what they want their future to look like.
That is exactly where HerSphere's newest Featured Partner, Charis Marr, comes in.
Inside Her Sphere: A Money Guide Written for Women in the UAE
When someone else has always handled the money, the first bank letter or legal form in your own name can read like a foreign language. That is true for a woman who has just been widowed, for one going through a divorce, and for one who has lived in the UAE for years and simply never needed to look closely until now.
The New UAE Banking Rule Every Freelancer and Sole Trader Should Know About This Week
When I first opened a business bank account here as a sole proprietor, it took weeks of back-and-forth, unclear fee schedules, and a fair amount of guessing about what I was and wasn't entitled to ask for. If you've set up a sole establishment or freelance permit in the UAE and gone through your own bank's onboarding process, you'll probably recognise that feeling—you're a real customer, but somehow the experience doesn't always feel like it.
That changes, formally, this week.
What Happens to Your UAE Bank Account After Death — And How to Protect Your Family Before It's an Issue
Most of us don't think about what happens to our bank account when we're gone. Then a friend mentions a widow who couldn't pay her children's school fees for weeks because her late husband's account — the one they'd shared for a decade — was frozen the moment the bank found out he'd died. Suddenly it's not a hypothetical.