Finance

A bank that enables customers to see their complete financial picture, understands how their investments are performing, and assesses whether they are on track to achieve what matters most becomes a trusted partner in managing and growing wealth.

"As more wealth is created and managed from the country, the opportunity is to move beyond being a destination for capital and become a center where wealth strategies are shaped."

At Money20/20 Middle East, Entrepreneur Middle East speaks with Checkout.com's Remo Giovanni Abbondandolo about the future of digital payments in Saudi Arabia, the growing demand for seamless checkout experiences, and how AI-powered technology is transforming commerce.

The investment follows Paymob’s robust financial and operational performance in the last 18 months.

The funding will support the automation of more financial workflows and the company’s expansion into the United States.

A license in hours meant little when a bank account took months. Innovation City takes ownership of the harder problem.

LMAX Group is the first client to join Standard Chartered Luxembourg’s digital asset custody platform.

Hong Kong-based investment firm Blue Pool Capital led the Series F equity round, with participation from existing investors HSG, Wellington Management, and Arbor Ventures.

The strongest outcomes were achieved by issuers that had prepared well in advance, maintained clarity around their funding objectives, preserved flexibility across products and currencies, and sustained continuous investor engagement.

The appointment brings a veteran of regulated digital-asset and brokerage businesses to a firm turning its focus from growth alone to the foundations that sustain it.

Marcus Weyll explains why patient, long-term capital could help close Africa’s infrastructure financing gap while creating opportunities for investors.

With global ETF assets past US$23 trillion, we speak to five experts on why owning a slice of the world's growth is better than chasing a single winning stock.

Licensed by the Central Bank of the UAE, the company’s initial business offering includes term loans, merchant financing and deposit solutions for eligible businesses.

The FTA’s current list of approved platforms includes Binance FZE, Bybit Fintech FZE, Deribit FZE, Bitget, and Payward FZCO.

The event comes as the UAE records historic levels of foreign direct investment and non-oil trade expansion.

The capability enables eligible institutional clients to access deliverable Bitcoin and Ether spot trading through Standard Chartered’s electronic trading channels.

Dubai Finance and Digital Dubai announced the activation after operational testing was completed to enable Jaywan card transactions on the platform.

"We launched the Cyber Resilience Center to support exactly that effort: helping institutions move from awareness to action, and from detection to resilience," Adam Jones explains.

As it prepares to approach public-market investors, Anthropic is expected to present a total addressable market of more than US$30 trillion.

Perhaps the biggest misconception that remains is that Islamic wealth management is relevant only to Muslim investors. Its underlying principles — transparency, responsible allocation of capital, disciplined investing and long-term stewardship — have much wider relevance.

New Federal Tax Authority rules mean companies can no longer take a supplier's invoice at face value.

Capital underwrites operators the way it underwrites assets, on fundamentals rather than on marketing, as it becomes more institutional.

The event is expected to welcome more than 38,000 attendees, alongside 350 exhibiting brands, 350+ speakers, 600+ investors and 150 startups.

Tag Markets entered the market with a different objective. The company did not set out to change what forex trading is. It set out to improve how a modern brokerage should operate around it.

The UAE Federal Tax Authority has introduced new compliance requirements for Designated Zone distributors and formalized how businesses must convert digital currency into AED for VAT reporting. Here's what businesses need to know.

El Etreby has worked across senior executive roles within the Egyptian banking sector, focusing on commercial banking and financial management.