Methodology

How we work

Guides are written by our editors. Glossary entries are drafted with automated tools built for NOUQUD, then reviewed and edited by a person before publication. Nothing reaches the site without human review.

What we check before publishing

Every glossary entry passes a set of automated checks before an editor sees it. The checks refuse an entry that sets one country’s currency arrangements against another’s, unless that difference is the declared subject of the piece: a definition should be useful to the reader in front of it rather than a tour of the region. They prohibit advice language, so entries state what is true rather than what a reader should do. They enforce our house style. And they test every source link, so a citation that does not resolve blocks the entry from publishing.

Sources

We cite sources when we state a rule, a rate, a threshold, or how an institution behaves.

We prefer primary institutional sources: central banksTermCentral bank×البنك المركزيThe government's bank, which controls the money supply, sets interest rates, and oversees all other banks in the country.Open the term, national statistics agencies, financial regulators, and exchanges. Where we use figures from the International Monetary Fund, the General Authority for Statistics in Saudi Arabia, or the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics in Egypt, we say so and link to them.

Every source link is tested before publication. A link that does not resolve blocks the piece from publishing.

Charts and figures

Every chart states its source and the date the data was current.

Charts are built from the source data directly, and any figure quoted in the surrounding text comes from that same data, so the text and the chart cannot disagree.

Dates

Every page shows when it was published and when it was last updated. We update pages rather than replacing them, so a page you read last year is the same page, corrected.

Financial products, regulations, and rates change. We review comparisons monthly, tools quarterly, guides every six months, and glossary entries annually. Articles about specific events are not updated, because they describe a moment.