The home for fintech intelligence and news, for the people who build it, fund it and regulate it.
NEWS
Fintech news across the five core areas: banking & neobanks, payments, infrastructure, capital & deals, and policy & regulation.
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority granted Coinbase permission to arrange and custody tokenised secu…
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
Bank of Montreal and Royal Bank of Canada have agreed to sell their jointly owned payments processor, Moneris…
FINTECHLY EDITOR
The retailer becomes the first airport operator in the Middle East to accept the payment method, built on the…
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
The founder and executive chairman was separately recognised at the Golden Excellence Awards for FinTech, Dig…
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
BHM Capital has become the first UAE financial institution to connect to Kazakhstan's Astana International Ex…
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
OORI, a Riyadh-based investment platform focused on private markets, has received a licence from Saudi Arabia…
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
The deal pairs Tether's tokenisation technology with a local commercial operator and an integration partner, …
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
UK financial crime decision-makers are struggling to keep pace with AI-enabled fraud.
FINTECHLY EDITOR
Laser Digital is structuring and overseeing risk for ZIGChain's onchain credit vaults, targeting $100 million…
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
The approval formalises an 18-year-old salary-card business serving 2.5 million employees, rather than launch…
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
The launch is AFS's first UAE product since securing a Central Bank licence in June, and Mastercard's third U…
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
The deal extends a broader pattern on both sides: HSBC's retreat from retail banking in markets where it lack…
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
The deferral total has more than doubled since May, with large corporates receiving two-thirds of the value d…
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
The airline now accepts payment through Crypto.com's wallet for AED-priced bookings by eligible UAE residents…
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
CBD Invest consolidates portfolio tracking, analytics and goal-based investing inside the bank's mobile app, …
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
The Retail Payment Services Category II approval, once final, would give the multi-country Yalla Super App a …
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
The Dubai spend management platform would gain the ability to hold and manage customer business funds directl…
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
Buy now, pay later activity will count towards a UAE credit file for the first time from July 2026, closing a…
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
The Central Bank of the UAE's SVF licence sets rules for e-wallets and prepaid schemes. See who needs it and …
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
Abu Dhabi's financial free zone has cleared XAU₮ for regulated trading and custody, giving Tether's gold toke…
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
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…
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
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 …
RUDRI MEHTA KACHHY
