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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…
EMBARGO: Silverflow data held until 08:00 CEST, 16 July 2026. Internal review copy — do not publish before th…
Three announcements, one bet: open banking gets a permanent legislative home, stablecoins get transatlantic a…
Britain's dormant cash pile is a friction problem, not a rates or awareness problem. Higher rates have alread…
FedNow real time payments bring 24/7 instant settlement, but not chargebacks or built-in fraud protection. Le…
Learn the payment orchestration platform features merchants need most—uptime, smart routing, integrations, re…
The Dubai buy now, pay later group has launched a zero-fee money account under a new central bank licence, it…
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RegTech helps regulated firms automate compliance, from AML and sanctions screening to regulatory reporting, …
The UAE’s 2025 AML law overhaul brings virtual-asset firms into scope, strengthens reporting duties and clari…
Transaction monitoring helps firms detect suspicious payments and customer activity, but false positives, wea…
