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Laser Digital is structuring and overseeing risk for ZIGChain's onchain credit vaults, targeting $100 million…
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The approval formalises an 18-year-old salary-card business serving 2.5 million employees, rather than launch…
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The launch is AFS's first UAE product since securing a Central Bank licence in June, and Mastercard's third U…
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The deal extends a broader pattern on both sides: HSBC's retreat from retail banking in markets where it lack…
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The deferral total has more than doubled since May, with large corporates receiving two-thirds of the value d…
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The airline now accepts payment through Crypto.com's wallet for AED-priced bookings by eligible UAE residents…
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CBD Invest consolidates portfolio tracking, analytics and goal-based investing inside the bank's mobile app, …
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The Retail Payment Services Category II approval, once final, would give the multi-country Yalla Super App a …
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The Dubai spend management platform would gain the ability to hold and manage customer business funds directl…
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Buy now, pay later activity will count towards a UAE credit file for the first time from July 2026, closing a…
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The Central Bank of the UAE's SVF licence sets rules for e-wallets and prepaid schemes. See who needs it and …
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Abu Dhabi's financial free zone has cleared XAU₮ for regulated trading and custody, giving Tether's gold toke…
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Learn how RTP real time payments work, from RTP network messages to limits, use cases, and controls so you ca…
The Dubai-based fintech, founded by former Revolut and Tamara staff, is live in the UAE while both larger riv…
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Instant payments vs real time payments explained: learn the key differences by market, what affects speed, an…
ADIB is the first external bank to deploy Visa's newly launched fraud and cyber intelligence platform, built …
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Mastercard launched the first Jaywan co-badged credit card a day after the UAE scheme's national debut. Read …
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Core42 now powers both the Central Bank of the UAE's sovereign cloud mandate for licensed institutions and a …
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A five-year, multimillion-dollar deal makes Visa the sole card network behind Sav's UAE and Saudi Arabia busi…
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What is payment orchestration? Learn how it routes payments, retries failures, secures card data, and unifies…
VARA approval lets Revolut offer broker-dealer and exchange services in Dubai, completing its UAE licence sta…
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The consumer headline on 15 July was exclusion: how many current users the affordability checks might price o…
HM Treasury's two AI Champions have published a plan setting out how the government, regulators and financial…
