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Wamda's features, opinions, and podcasts

U.A.E

Bayzat closes $3.6M Series A, seeks to reform UAE health insurance

Bayzat, a Dubai based technology company offering health insurance and HR solutions, has closed a $3.6 million Series A round led by BECO...

Bayzat BECO Capital Series A

Iraq

Fertile ground for mobile wallets: Iraq

Hussein Kanber agha says his company has built a user friendly mobile wallet that will allow Iraqis to make payments using their...

iraq wallet ideal payments Zain Group

Egypt

Going cashless in Egypt with Paymob

It is no secret that cash and informal transactions are still the norm in Egypt. Cash transactions account for 40 percent of the...

Paymob Egypt banking

Regional

8 MENA startups dive into debt - lending that is

Taking on debt can be inevitable, be it to keep a startup ticking over until you can secure a funding round or to pay for medical bills....

Fintech VentureFin MoneyFellows

Jordan

Oasis500, on a fintech hunt

Jordan, with its progressive startups and small population, could be a good regional test market for fintech products looking to head to...

Oasis500 Jordan Payfort

Egypt

Egypt's who's who of fintech startups

Financial technology has been a slow burn in Egypt as banks swear they understand the need but decline to deliver on basic services such as...

Egypt Dopay PayMe

Egypt

Egypt fintech startups prepare for lift off

In a country where only 14 percent of people have bank accounts, fintech startups servicing Egyptians’ unmet needs are playing on a...

Fintech Egypt Dopay

Tunisia

Surviving the Ben Ali regime: a Tunisian entrepreneur success story

Badreddine Ouali is a model for the new generation of Tunisian entrepreneurs, but he never planned his career. Today, after blazing a...

Corruption Europe Vermeg

Egypt

App Lab kills cash at Egypt festivals

Festivals, be they music or other, are bedevilled by two problems: ticketing fraud and cash. Early last year the founders of a new music...

App Lab Sandbox Oshtoora

U.A.E

Abu Dhabi, MENA’s fintech oasis?

Fintech has been the subject of significant interest from entrepreneurs and investors alike in the past few years, and this interest shows...

abu dhabi global market fintech factory 1864 accelerator

U.A.E

In5 Media Hub, latest incubator with industry approach

Dubai-based incubator In5 is finally putting the finishing touches to its media-focused hub. First announced in November 2015 they...

in5 In5 media hub Payfort

Maghreb

The year Morocco's digital economy levels up

This is the second of three articles about the state of digital payments in Morocco. Read the first here. Morocco’s financial...

Regulations fin-tech

Maghreb

3 reasons why Morocco is lagging in e-payments

This is the first of three articles about the state of digital payments in Morocco. At a time when ‘fintech’ is on...

Cards and payment e-payments fin-tech

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