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INFRASTRUCTURE DIGITAL ASSETS MIDDLE EAST 6 MIN READ · JULY 2026

Everyone’s building crypto exchanges. Khaled Guerbouz is building the rails institutions won’t move without.

The institutional-FX veteran is betting that what digital assets lack isn't somewhere to trade, but the regulated infrastructure that serious money won't move without: settlement, custody, payments, issuance.

KHALED GUERBOUZ GROUP CEO, ARBEAT

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The people buildingfintech’s next layer.

Everyone’s building crypto exchanges. Khaled Guerbouz is building the rails institutions won’t move without.

Suggest a founder.

The people building
fintech’s next layer.