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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.

Prior to founding Tarabut in 2017, he also founded Almoayed Technologies

Usman is currently a Board Member of Bahrain Islamic Bank, SICO Bank, GCC-BDI Institute, Bahrain Association of Banks and Injaz Bahrain.

Before joining Deutsche Bank, he served as CEO of the Libyan Investment Authority.

He has led its expansion across the Middle East and other international markets. He also founded the Association of Lebanese Software Industry (ALSI).

The company is a licensed processor for both Visa and Mastercard and serves banks, fintech companies

The platform now boasts over 1 million users and operates in more than 110 countries.

He was Chairman of PayTabs Egypt and is a board member of KarmSolar. Earlier, he worked for 17 years in banking, including roles at Bank Audi, Misr International Bank, and Banque Misr.

Hammouda is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from The American University in Cairo.

Shawky also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center.

He is also the visionary behind the Yalla Super App, a regional financial platform built in collaboration with Visa, and the founder and CEO of FinTra Holding

She serves as Board Member of Oman Arab Bank, Board Member of Arab National Bank in Saudi Arabia, and Chairman of Al Arabia for Finance SAL in Lebanon.

Sabry has more than 20 years of experience in the technology, finance, and information technology sectors.

Appointed Group CEO in 2023 after serving as CEO and General Manager of Al Ansari Exchange since 2010, he has led the group’s expansion to more than 230 branches across the UAE.

A Board Member of the Union of Arab Banks, Mustafa is recognized for driving growth, innovation, and customer-focused banking.

He began his banking career at Arab Bank (Egypt) in 1992 and later headed the Offsite Supervision Sector at the Central Bank of Egypt in 2007.

The trio co-founded the fintech company in 2020 to simplify digital payments and make financial transactions faster, more secure, and more accessible.