Wamda

U.A.E

Opportunities behind challenges of fintech in the Middle East [Podcast]

Fintech is hot. Globally, investments in fintech have been rising since 2012, and while they might drop slightly in 2017, according to CB...

Fintech podcast Wamda Capital

U.A.E

Sending money home with ease, Now Money [Wamda TV]

Expatriates in the UAE send a lot of money home. A lot. According to the World Bank’s migration and remittances factbook for 2016,...

Fintech now money uae

Regional

$100M invested in MENA fintech [WRL report]

Fintech startups in MENA have raised over $100 million in funding in the last 10 years, and a new report indicates the number of startups...

WRL State of Fintech Payfort

U.A.E

Talking about fintech in MENA [Wamda TV]

Everything starts with a payment. Payfort’s Omar Soudodi, talking to Wamda, said that the wealth transfer is the foundation of...

Fintech mix n mentor dubai Payfort

Iran

Turkish payments startup Iyzico closes $13M Series C

On July 15, Barbaros Ozbugutu and Tahsin Isin were celebrating in Istanbul. After years of bureaucracy, their online payment company...

turkey iran Commerce

U.A.E

Watch as the UAE fintech community grows

The UAE is steadily growing as a home to fintech startups creating a transformation in various areas of the region’s finance...

Fintech Startup Weekend uae

Egypt

Egypt loosens rules on mobile money

In what will be welcome news to Egypt’s burgeoning fintech startups, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) is starting a bid to formalize...

Fintech Central Bank of Egypt mobile money

Regional

Fintech is the spur MENA startups need [Know your VC]

Fintech is cool. It must be cool if Hollywood celebrities such as Snoop Dogg and Jared Leto, between attending an exclusive pool party and...

Fintech liwwa Madfoo3atcom

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...

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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...

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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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