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Dahabshiil ((ソマリ語:''Dahabshiil''), (アラビア語:دهب شيل)) is an international funds transfer company headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.〔(mirror )〕 Formed in the early 1970s, the firm operates from over 24,000 outlets and employs more than 2,000 people across 126 countries. It provides financial services to international organisations, as well as to both large and small businesses and private individuals.〔(mirror ) 〕〔(mirror )〕〔(UK Somali Remittances Survey )〕 The company is also involved in numerous community building projects in Somalia.〔 It is the largest money-transfer business in Africa. ==History== Dahabshiil (meaning "Gold smelter"〔) was founded in 1970 by Mohamed Said Duale, a Somali entrepreneur based in Burao, the capital city of Togdheer province in the modern-day Somaliland region of Somalia.〔Matthew Saltmarsh ("Somalis’ Money Is Lifeline for Homeland" ), ''The New York Times'' (11 November 2009).〕 Initially a general trading enterprise, the firm began specialising in remittance broking during the 1970s, when many Somali males from northern Somalia migrated to the Gulf States for work. This resulted in a growing demand for services to transfer money from those migrant workers back to their families.〔〔(Overseas Development Institute )〕 Because of foreign exchange controls imposed by the Somali government at the time, most of the funds were transferred via a trade-based system known as ''Franco Valuta'' (FV); the latter process involved the import of goods, proceeds from the sale of which were sent to migrants’ families.〔(COMPAS Publications )〕 These transactions formed the bulk of Dahabshiil’s business throughout the 1980s.〔(Global Security )〕 With the Somali Civil War fast approaching, the Duale family were among the hundreds of thousands who retreated to the Somali-inhabited Ogaden region in neighbouring Ethiopia. The business in Somalia collapsed, but Duale was able to draw on an extensive network of contacts in the Gulf to re-establish the venture, setting up a small office in Ethiopia to serve displaced Somali communities there and in Djibouti.〔(Hiiraan )〕 In 1989, Dahabshiil opened its first office in London, where a number of Somalis had arrived during the war. The UK arm was managed by Mohammed Duale’s son, Abdirashid Duale, who began to expand the business as the Somali population in the UK grew.〔(Harowo )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dahabshiil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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