The Saudi Central Bank, previously known as Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA), is planning to go live with…

Personetics, a Tel Aviv-based global provider of data-driven personalisation and customer engagement solutions for banks and financial services…

GoDaddy Inc, an American publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company, announced the introduction of a…

Amazon is aggressively expanding its e-commerce business in the Middle East, multiplying product launches with the introduction of…

UAE’s e-commerce retailer LetsTango.com and Aramex, a global provider of comprehensive logistics and transportation solutions, have partnered to…

Global Shares, an Irish equity compensation management solutions provider, announce that it has opened an office in Saudi…

Fintech funding in Africa jumped 49.3% in 2020 to US$160 million. The amount was raised by 99 fintech…

Abu Dhabi-based Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider NymCard announced that they have raised US$ 7.6 million during a Series A…

Hakbah platform, a Saudi-based fintech startup that specialises in alternative savings and savings groups, announced the closure of…

Bahrain Islamic Bank (BisB) announced that Verofax, a Malaysian-based asset digitisation and traceability services provider, as the winner…

Tamara, a Saudi-based buy now pay later platform, announced the closure of its seed funding round with an…

A new digital treasury services management provider SH Capital Ltd (SHC), launches in Dubai today with a mission…

SaaS banking platform Mambu and Ta3meed, an Islamic fintech in trade finance in Saudi Arabia, announced a strategic…

COVID-19 has created a sea change across the financial services sector with respect to remote work and a…

The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) has established eight new offices in Tel Aviv, New York, San Francisco,…

South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya have historically been the fintech hubs of Africa, but the next chapter for…

Rain Financial Inc, a licensed cryptocurrency platform and custodian, announced that it had raised $6 million during a…

Visa’s third edition of its global research study, “Visa Back to Business Study – 2021 Outlook”, found that…

Telecom provider Virgin Mobile was awarded a banking agent license through the Saudi Investment Bank, allowing it to…

In Tanzania, the fintech sector is still nascent with less than 50 companies, among which 68% in their…

The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) has issued its open banking policy which outlines its objective for implementation in…

Emirates NBD has rolled out the digital onboarding option for new customers to have their identity documents verified…

Sarwa, a Dubai-based investment advisory platform, was granted a fintech experimental permit by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA)…

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has released a draft document outlining a five-year digitalization plan to modernize…