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Israel Fintech Startup Vyzer Chooses Salt Edge to Offer Open Banking Investment Boost
Vyzer, an Israeli-based fintech consumer focused startup, joined hands with Salt Edge, an open banking solutions, to enable high net worth investors to instantly connect and sync their European bank accounts, offering a comprehensive analysis of investment performance and fully
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Remitly to Acquire Israel Remittance Startup Rewire
Remitly Global, Inc., a leading global digital financial services provider for immigrants and their families, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rewire, an Israeli-based financial services platform for migrant workers. Under the terms of the
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Top 10 Fintech Startups in the Middle East
Forbes Middle East has released its selection of 2022’s top 25 fintech companies in the region, recognizing the Middle East’s most successful public and private fintech firms. The list features firms that are applying technology to financial sectors including payments,
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PayRemit Partners With IDnow Middle East for AI-Powered Customer Onboarding
PayRemit, the mobile e-commerce app which allows lower income workers to shop and pay in installments, has selected DIFC-based IDnow Middle East to provide automated identity verification to onboard its customers. Through this agreement, PayRemit will deploy AutoIdent which is
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Thunes Enters Saudi Arabia and Appoints Country Head
Thunes, a global cross-border payments company, today announced that it is accelerating the expansion of its services in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, setting up an office in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and appointing a new
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Abu Dhabi Proptech Startup SmartCrowd Secures Saudi Fintech Licence
SmartCrowd Holdings, a regional pioneer in fractional real estate investments, has been granted a FinTech experimental license by the Saudi Capital Markets Authority (CMA). SmartCrowd is currently working on completing business requirements for the upcoming launch of its Real Estate
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Tabby Secures $150M Credit Facility From Atalaya Capital
Tabby, MENA’s payments and shopping app, has secured $150 million in debt financing from Atalaya Capital Management and existing investor Partners for Growth (PFG). Headquartered in New York, this facility marks Atalaya Capital Management’s first deal in the MENA region.
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SC Ventures Launches Fintech Startup in Dubai
SC Ventures announced the launch of Appro, a fintech startup that digitises, streamlines and simplifies the retail banking user journey. Backed by SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm, the bank-agnostic platform aims to reduce the time
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New Payments Index 2022: UAE Consumers Embrace Digital Payments
Adoption of a broader range of digital payment methods is accelerating in the UAE and the technology fueling the future of payments is already here, according to Mastercard’s New Payments Index 2022. In addition to being aware of solutions like
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Top 4 Emirates Skywards Miles Credit Cards in the UAE
For frequent flyers, travel reward schemes are an extremely useful resource which helps them save money on their travel experience, get nearly free flights and hotel stays, and take on luxury vacations that they would otherwise be unwilling to spend
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