Wamda

Morocco

Moroccan fintech Lacaisse.ma secures funding from WitaMax

Morocco-based Lacaisse.ma has received funding from WitaMax, the amount raised was undisclosed. Founded in 2016 by Said Belkhayat...

Lacaisse.ma WitaMax

U.A.E

Pollen Street acquires majority stake in Ding

Mobile top-up services company Ding has sold its majority stake to the London-based alternative investment management company, Pollen...

Ding Pollen Street acquisition

Regional

Can data regulation be Mena's competitive advantage?

Khaled Lababidi is vice president and general manager of the Middle East, Africa and Turkey, for InCountry – a data...

Fintech Data regulation

Egypt

Arab Bank launches fintech accelerator in Egypt

Arab Bank has launched the AB Accelerator in Egypt, a fintech-focused corporate acceleration programme. The accelerator, which was...

AB Accelerator Fintech

Regional

Fintech is poised for consolidation in the Middle East

Mahmoud Hamouda is a strategy and operations consultant at Dell Technologies. He is also the head of Dell for Entrepreneurs in Egypt. In...

Fintech

U.A.E

Sarwa closes $15 million Series B round led by Mubadala

UAE-based fintech Sarwa has closed a $15 million Series B funding round, led by Mubadala Investment Company with participation from...

Fintech sarwa series B

U.A.E

tabby closes $50 million Series B round

UAE-based buy now pay later (BNPL) startup tabby has raised $50 million in a Series B round, valuing the fintech at $300 million. The...

Buy now pay later Fintech Tabby

U.A.E

SimpliFi launches after closing Seed round led by Raed Ventures

UAE-based fintech SimpliFi has emerged from stealth mode to launch its “cards as a service” platform in the Middle East and...

SimpliFi Fintech CaaS

Saudi Arabia

Saudi fintech Forus secures Series A funding

Saudi Arabia-based fintech Forus Capital has secured an undisclosed Series A funding round co-led by Yazeed Alrajhi and Brothers...

Forus Fintech

Egypt

CreditFins raises pre-Seed round for its credit card management platform

Cairo-based fintech startup CreditFins has raised a Pre-Seed funding round led by Flat6Labs, AUC Angels, TA Telecom Holding, and other...

CreditFins Fintech

Regional

How we pivoted our startup with grace

Walid Daniel Dib is the co-founder and CEO of hala, a UAE-based insuretech startup Spoiler: There was absolutely no grace...

Pivot Hala

Qatar

Spendwisor raises $1 million and secures $50 million capital commitment from Global Emerging Markets

Qatar-based fintech startup Spendwisor has raised $1 million in a pre-Seed round led by Erhama Nasser Al-Kaabi and...

Spendwisor Fintech

Regional

Want economic prosperity? Help women become more financially capable

Dina Alnabulsi is a business analyst at Globitel, a Jordan-based telecommunications company Financial exclusion is a universal issue,...

financial inclusion Women empowerment

Egypt

What can open banking do for Egypt?

Akram Abdou is the founder of Egypt-based Underlie, an open banking platform offering application programming interfaces (APIs) to...

Open banking

Morocco

Y Combinator acquires 7 per cent of Morocco's B2B e-commerce startup Chari

US-based Seed investor and accelerator Y Combinator has acquired 7 per cent of shares in Morocco-based B2B e-commerce startup Chari,...

Chari B2B e-commerce Y Combinator

Global

Global Ventures participates in Nigeria-based teamApt's Series B funding round

UAE-based venture capital firm Global Ventures has participated in Nigeria-based fintech startup teamApt's Series B funding round,...

Global Ventures TeamAPT

U.A.E

Postpay secures $10 million investment from AP Ventures and Afterpay

Dubai-based buy now pay later (BNPL) startup Postpay has secured $10 million in equity investment, led by AP Ventures and...

BNPL Postpay Fintech

U.A.E

UAE’s Cashee raises $1 million pre-Seed

UAE-based fintech startup Cashee raised a $1 million pre-Seed funding round. Founded by Smeetha Ghosh and Brad Whittfield, Cashee...

Cashee EdTech Fintech

U.A.E

tabby raises $50 million in debt financing from Partners for Growth

Dubai-based buy now pay later (BNPL) startup tabby has raised $50 million in debt financing from Partners for Growth. Founded...

BNPL Tabby

Saudi Arabia

Saudi fintech Tweeq closes funding round led by STV, Raed Ventures

Riyadh-based fintech platform Tweeq has raised an undisclosed funding round, co-led by STV and Raed Ventures. Founded in 2020 by...

Fintech Tweeq

Regional

An evolving landscape: The state of open banking regulations in Mena

Abdulla Almoayed is the founder and CEO of open banking platform Tarabut Gateway. Here, he discusses how government regulations are shaping...

Fintech Open banking Regulations

Saudi Arabia

Can Saudi Arabia become the region's fintech frontrunner?

When Tamara announced it had raised $110 million for its Series A back in April, it sent a wave of awe across the region. Not only was this...

Fintech

U.A.E

Wamda participates in Ziina’s latest $7.5 million funding round

Wamda has participated in UAE-basedZiina’s $7.5 million funding round which was led by Avenir Growth Capital and Class 5 Global....

wamda Ziina

Egypt

MoneyHash raises six-figure pre-Seed round

Egypt and US-based fintech MoneyHash has raised an undisclosed amount (six-figures) in a pre-Seed round led by COTU Ventures with...

Fintech MoneyHash COTU Ventures

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