Three fintech launches this week reveal how far the industry startups have moved beyond banking: a business app that now includes a mobile plan, a wage-access card for UAE workers, and a Brazilian super-app that pulls in investments from rival institutions.
AWS cloud data-centre fire triggers outages at First Abu Dhabi Bank, Emirates NBD, and other UAE banks and financial institutions, raising alarm on cloud service over-dependence.
By 2026, India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has done something no private fintech ever managed: turned a domestic public infrastructure into a quietly expanding international standard. Here’s what’s happening — and where Indians can already pay with UPI abroad.
European cybersecurity firm WALLIX has announced plans to reinforce its operations in the Middle East, responding to growing demand for digital sovereignty and robust data protection across the region.
Revolut might reportedly be entering the UAE as early as Q1 2026, marking its second non-European market after Mexico. The company has ramped up hiring and team operations, with future plans for additional banking licences in international markets including the US.
Invest Bank has announced the outcomes of a strategic partnership with AUTON8 aimed at strengthening regulatory resilience, operational efficiency, and customer-focused agility across its core and digital banking operations in the UAE.
Affiliate World Global Dubai is back on 4-5 March and is set to break the record for our biggest performance marketing conference yet.
PayPal is back in Nigeria after 20 years simultaneously expanding its merchant reach in the UAE. All that without opening any new offices or creating local subsidiaries. Instead, the payment leader uses strategic market partnerships that make global payments work locally.
BitOasis, a leading digital asset platform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has published its 2025 Annual Report. The report outlines the company’s performance and strategic direction over the past year, noting a significant maturation of the regional digital asset market driven by progressive regulation, increased institutional participation, and more sophisticated retail investor […]
The UAE has recorded its first live Open Finance payment after Ziina successfully executed a customer-initiated account-to-account transaction in partnership with Lean Technologies.
Zignaly and ABHI have unveiled a new real-world asset crypto-powered investment product in the UAE, marking a significant step in connecting on-chain capital with real-economy SME financing.
Choosing the right payment gateway is essential for business growth. In the UAE, with its strong digital infrastructure and a growing e-commerce ecosystem, businesses must pay attention to localised payment gateway solutions that support both national and global payment methods as well as offer an Arabic language interface.
A new partnership between LuLu Exchange and ABHI is set to transform how expatriate workers in the UAE access, manage, and send their earnings across borders.
Cyber-enabled financial crime is accelerating worldwide, and the UAE is taking decisive action to strengthen its national defences, thoroughly researching the scope of a problem and potential solutions in a landmark analytical paper released in cooperation with Themis.
Mastercard confirmed that its Agent Pay platform, a breakthrough in agentic, AI-powered payments, is now live in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), making it the first market outside the U.S. to adopt this next-generation payments innovation.
Many SMEs in the UAE face delays between issuing invoices and receiving payments, which can stall growth and limit the ability to seize business opportunities, a financing issue Numou and ABHI aim to solve.
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