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Standard Chartered has extended its institutional Bitcoin and Ether spot trading service to the UAE, becoming the first Global Systemically Important Bank to offer it in the region.
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Visa has updated A2A Protect, its tool for catching account-to-account fraud, with a unified fraud score buil…
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The UK government plans to give the Bank of England a new secondary objective to support innovation in paymen…
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The Financial Conduct Authority published research on 27 August 2026 showing that 44% of young UK investors w…
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Zand, the Abu Dhabi-backed UAE digital bank, is adding Circle's USDC to its own regulated dirham stablecoin, …
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Global fintech investment reached $103.1 billion in the first half of 2026, up from $72.2 billion in the seco…
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Dubai-based stablecoin platform Fasset has closed a $68 million round led by Japan's SBI Group, becoming a un…
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Financial regulators from three separate jurisdictions have started directly testing a live implementation of…
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Capital Vault, a regulated affiliate of Capital.com, has secured a full virtual-asset licence from the UAE's …
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Payit, First Abu Dhabi Bank's digital wallet, has launched Send Now Pay Later, letting eligible UAE customers…
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NBF has signed an MoU with Numou, an ADGM-owned digital financing marketplace, to connect UAE SMEs with finan…
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Payment orchestration platform Yuno has raised a $45 million Series B, notable less for the round itself than…
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Naran, a UAE-based rent-to-own vehicle financing platform for ride-hailing and delivery drivers, has raised $…
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a standing framework for certain investment contracts …
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Money mule detection fails because evidence sits across banks, telecoms and merchants. See the FCA and Cifas …
Abu Dhabi Global Market's Financial Services Regulatory Authority has signed a memorandum of understanding wi…
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The UAE Central Bank's Financial Stability Report 2025 shows AED5.3 trillion in banking assets, but the notab…
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Tax Star, a pre-approved Accredited Service Provider for the UAE's e-invoicing system, has closed a $1.75 mil…
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Rentify's Renewal Command Center, the third AI agent inside its Earn AI platform, folds Open Finance-powered …
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