01/15/2020
KKR Closes $2.2 Billion Next Generation Technology Growth Fund II
KKR has established a strong track record of supporting technology-focused growth companies
FinTech
01/09/2020
Undergoing a digital transformation at AXA Gulf
AXA Gulf’s Siddhaarth Iyer, Head of Digital, and Yannick Janssen, Head of Technology and Innovation, discuss their company’s digital transformation journey
01/09/2020
University of Bahrain students win prizes in AFS' bwallet challenge
Winning attractive cash prizes, the first-place winners for the design of a new user interface for Bahrain's most popular mobile wallet app - bwallet were Mohammed Mukhtar, Hussain Mohammed, Abdulla Ayoob and Ghufran Abdulla
01/09/2020
Middle East financial institutions spearheading advanced security tech
Super alert surveillance systems to become industry standard
01/06/2020
New ecosystem for digital assets set to emerge in 2020
Aden - Yasmine El Tohamy - Developments have not only created opportunity, but an environment that encourages retail, institutional digital asset with comfort and security
01/06/2020
Five Ways To Improve The Business Process Management For Your Banks
Banks are facing a lot of challenges due to competition and they want an organized software for creating business processes delivering products and services so that they can attract customers by meeting their needs fully and quickly and retain them.
01/03/2020
Islamic fintechs becoming ‘global phenomenon’
The study is based on a survey of 180 companies worldwide, half of them fintechs and the others being incubators and accelerators, consultancies, financial institutions and investors, with respondent being based in the UK, Middle East, other Europe, South
01/03/2020
Singapore Fintech Eyes Middle East
Our Dubai office will serve as a bridge between the Middle East and Asia Pacific
01/03/2020
Cryptocurrency May Have Emerged In The Middle East
On the other hand, there are also countries in the Middle East that are trying everything in their will not to let Cryptocurrency enter their nation.
01/02/2020
Cryptocurrency in Arab World: Clock is Ticking, But Pace is Slow
One of focal points to understand the crypto scene in the region is that adoption is driven from the top
01/02/2020
Islamic Fintech to Advance More in 2020
Aside from what is mentioned, there are three other promising areas including blockchain and crypto, Robo-advisory and personal finance management and lending.
01/02/2020
Saudi Arabia could be on the brink of a FinTech revolution
A young, tech-savvy population offers a source of business and a ready talent pool for FinTech firms
12/31/2019
Emirates NBD boosts AED 1 billion digital transformation
Bank completes third phase of international core banking system upgrade in Saudi Arabia, following earlier upgrades in Singapore and the United Kingdom
12/31/2019
Innovation in treasury management
On the need for regulatory technologies, Chetan Parekh, partner at CedarIBSI said that regulators around the world are bringing out more new regulations for banking and financial institutions on the back of increasing numbers of corporate data breaches, c
12/29/2019
DFSA to launch Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform
The Platform is a major milestone in mitigating cyber risk proactively and will benefit the broader DIFC community by creating an ecosystem for information sharing and enriched cyber threat intelligence to help detect and mitigate cyber risks.
12/29/2019
Five Countries Where Crypto Regulation Changed the Most in 2019
“Some countries now consider them legal tender, while many viewing cryptocurrencies as commodities. Governments around the world are keenly aware of the problem that the technology is rapidly outpacing the laws that govern it.”
12/29/2019
Kuwait Banking Association denies local bank data breach claims
The malfunction has “no correlation to local banking enetworks and data systems,” said Al-Majed, adding “account holders’ savings are safe and local banks have not been compromised as a result.”
12/29/2019
Digital banking needs bank, IT firms teamwork
“Reports predict that artificial intelligence systems will save the banking community more than $ 1 trillion by 2030."
12/27/2019
Ministry of Finance to launch e-stamp service
The process of payment and issuance of the stamps will be carried out directly within a few minutes using the K-net devices available with the service employees.
12/27/2019
UAE Telecom Regulatory Authority warns public of a computer virus spreading fraudulent links
Fraudulent messages mislead recipients into thinking they are from reliable source