U.A.E Dubai-based Beehive raises $4 million Source: Menabytes Dubai-based peer to peer lending platform Beehive has raised $4 million as part of its Series B round from Riyad... News • 04 March, 2019 Fintech Funding Investment
Saudi Arabia The benefits of the Saudi-UAE joint initiatives In January, the UAE and Saudi Arabia announced the launch of seven strategic initiatives to further integrate the countries’ two... Matt Smith • 11 February, 2019 Saudi Arabia uae government cryptocurrency
Regional Is there a role for startups in the Islamic economy? With 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide, the Islamic economy is a lucrative sector, worth an estimated $2.1 trillion according to the State of... Pamela Kesrouani • 04 February, 2019 Islamic Banking islamic finance Fintech
Regional yallacompare raises $8 million in latest round Dubai-based yallacompare has raised $8 million in its latest round of funding. Lead by existing investors STC Ventures and Wamda... Triska Hamid • 06 January, 2019 Insurance Price comparison Egypt
Regional In conversation with Ola Doudin of the UAE's BitOasis Ola Doudin co-founded BitOasis, the Middle East’s first cryptocurrency exchange back in 2015. Its platform enables users to buy and... Wamda • 02 January, 2019 cryptocurrency Blockchain Bit Oasis
Regional Beyond m-Banking: How Africa’s fintech startups are bringing power to the people Africa is in a constant battle against its colossal geographic scale, political unrest, and lack of legacy infrastructure, creating a host... Annie Bricker • 17 December, 2018 africa mobile money Fintech
Egypt From Transport to Fintech: RiseUp Concludes its Sixth Edition The sixth edition of the RiseUp Summit in Cairo closed with several announcements, engaging discussions and the inevitable bustle of the... Wamda • 10 December, 2018 #entrepreneurship #RiseUp #AimHigh
Regional Two new fintech accelerators announced at RiseUp Jordan’s Ahli bank announced the launch of is financial technology (fintech) seed acceleration programme at RiseUp Summit... Yasmeen Nabil • 08 December, 2018 Fintech accelerator
Regional Careem introduces credit transfer Careem has introduced peer-to-peer (P2P) prepaid credit transfers across all its markets. The closed-loop feature enables users to... News • 28 November, 2018 careem
Kuwait Kuwait launches fintech sandbox Source: Reuters Kuwait’s central bank has issued regulatory guidelines for companies wishing to experiment with new financial... News • 28 November, 2018 Fintech kuwait
U.A.E Fintech Hive to partner with Hong Kong's Cyberport Dubai’s Fintech Hive is set to partner with Hong Kong’s technology hub, Cyberport, to enable financial technology (fintech)... Triska Hamid • 27 November, 2018 Fintech Hong Kong Fintech Hive
U.A.E Majid Al Futtaim acquires mobile wallet app Beam Source: Gulf Business Dubai-based mall operator Majid Al Futtaim has acquired Beam Portal, the owner of UAE mobile wallet app, Beam, it... News • 21 November, 2018 Fintech mobile payment Dubai
Regional GCC fintech startups to attract $2 billion in investments Private-funding investments in GCC-based financial technology (fintech) startups is expected to reach $2 billion in the next decade... Yasmeen Nabil • 20 November, 2018 Fintech Fintech Hive investement
U.A.E WeInvest sets sights on UAE Source: Finextra WeInvest, a Singapore-based digital wealth services and robo-advisory firm, announced today its expansion will be into... News • 08 November, 2018 Fintech Hive DIFC
U.A.E Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange to create infrastructure for cryptocurrency assets Source: Bitcoin.com The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange has released a paper aimed at creating the infrastructure necessary to accommodate... News • 07 November, 2018 abu dhabi Fintech cryptocurrency
Kuwait DWS Group acquires stake in GCC FinTech startup Neo Technologies Source: The National DWS Group, a European asset manager in which Germany’s Deutsche Bank has a majority stake, agreed to... News • 06 November, 2018 Fintech
Regional Deciphering the fintech boom in the Mid East Financial Technology (fintech) is a vast and all-encompassing term that evokes hope, cynicism and plenty of confusion. From Bitcoins to... Triska Hamid • 29 October, 2018 Fintech Blockchain cryptocurrency
Turkey Tarfin raises $1.3 million in seed round Tarfin recently completed a $1.3 million seed round led by Turkey-based Collective Spark Fund with co-investment from Wamda Capital. The... Wamda • 23 October, 2018 Agriculture agritech Fintech
U.A.E Abu Dhabi launches digital sandbox for fintech Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the emirate’s financial centre will launch a fintech digital sandbox, to enable financial... Wamda • 17 September, 2018 Fintech Sandbox
Regional A15 sells stake in Tpay Mobile The region’s first “dragon exit” was completed today by A15, which sold its 76 per cent stake in UAE-based Tpay Mobile. A... Wamda • 17 September, 2018 mobile finance Exit
U.A.E Fintech Abu Dhabi 2018 FinTech Abu Dhabi Summit 2018 will go ‘live’ in two more weeks with two full days of exciting activities for FinTech... Wamda • 09 September, 2018
U.A.E $33B of lost remittances could be regained through the Blockchain, and this UAE startup is on it Fintech startups are continuously bringing innovative solutions to cater to the large unbanked population. According to the World... Rana Freifer • 09 May, 2018 uae Dinarii Cash Fintech
Regional Adopting cashless payment channels will double business growth [Opinion] We’re at an inflection point in the history of payments. Led by countries like Sweden, where non-cash payments now outweigh cash... Sirish Kumar • 24 April, 2018 oped Telr Sirish Kumar
U.A.E The Plug and Play ADGM program will kick off in Q3 2018 Plug and Play (PNP), one of the world’s largest global innovation platforms, and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International... Rana Freifer • 18 April, 2018 uae ADGM Plug and Play