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DIFC’s FinTech Hive launches new start-up ‘Scale Up Programme’

DIFC's FinTech Hive Scale Up programme benefits scaleups by helping them grow through strategic partnerships

Middle East, Turkey and Africa to spend top dollar on innovation, digital transformation

Additionally, spending on artificial intelligence will top US$600-million in 2023, doubling from 2018 levels, while IOT spending will reach US$17-billion in 2023, six times the value seen in 2018.

Microsoft Announces Plan To Launch Cloud Data Centre Region In Israel

This investment expands the company’s global cloud infrastructure to 56 cloud regions in 21 countries with the new Israel region anticipated to be available by 2021.

SA, Egyptian fintech startups selected for Startupbootcamp accelerator in Dubai

The programme began earlier this month and concludes with a demo day in April.

Samsung Pay Expands in the UAE With New Bank Partnerships

Samsung Pay is a simple and intuitive mobile payment service, which ensures swift and secure transactions for customers who can just swipe or tap their credit or debit cards to make purchases almost anywhere.

Dubai’s Sarwa raises $8.4 million Series A to make investing

Sarwa claims to have grown by 10x in 2019.

Businesses Face a Digital Ceiling in Their Transformation Progress

The report, which surveyed over 1,000 executives globally, ranked the most digitally advanced companies as "Visionaries", followed by "Explorers" and then "Watchers."

Seizing the FinTech opportunity in the UAE

The number of FinTech companies in the region is forecast to grow to 1,845 by 2022

Tech Trends 2020

Deloitte’s 11th annual Tech Trends report provides insights and inspiration you will need for the digital journey ahead. Several of this year’s trends are responses to persistent IT challenges. Others represent technology-specific dimensions o

What Businesses Need To Know About Hybrid Cloud

As governments and businesses race to take advantage of cloud computing, they are navigating current and future data regulations, as well as how to make the most of existing IT infrastructure.

UAE to save AED11 billion through Blockchain implementation, Dubai future foundation and world economic forum whitepaper reveals

The findings published in the white paper shed light upon core requirements across both technical and non-technical drivers of blockchain deployment success

MEA biometrics market ‘set to grow at over 21pc’

This task is time consuming, tedious and runs a risk of error due to human fatigue

KKR Closes $2.2 Billion Next Generation Technology Growth Fund II

KKR has established a strong track record of supporting technology-focused growth companies

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

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

Middle East financial institutions spearheading advanced security tech

Super alert surveillance systems to become industry standard

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

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.

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

Singapore Fintech Eyes Middle East

Our Dubai office will serve as a bridge between the Middle East and Asia Pacific