Abu Dhabi, UAE – Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and users, today announced a landmark regulatory achievement: The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM, the international financial centre of Abu Dhabi, the Capital of the UAE, has formally approved the authorisation of Binance’s global platform, Binance.com, under a comprehensive regulatory framework. […]
Dubai, UAE: In a major step toward advancing its digital transformation agenda, Dubai Customs has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Binance during Binance Week, aiming to expand its digital payment capabilities by integrating crypto-enabled transactions across commercial and logistical operations. The MoU was signed by His Excellency Dr. Abdulla Busenad, Director General of […]
İSTANBUL – Türkiye’s leading digital asset platform Paribu today announced that it has acquired CoinMENA, the largest local crypto exchange in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), in a transaction valuing the company at up to USD 240 million. The deal represents Türkiye’s largest fintech transaction to date and the country’s first cross-border acquisition of […]
One of the first professionally managed funds to seamlessly combine equities, fixed income, gold, and Bitcoin, offered through a DIFC domiciled, DFSA regulated Fund and passported throughout the UAE Dubai, UAE – Mashreq Capital, a leading asset manager based in DIFC since 2005, today announced the launch of BITMAC, a groundbreaking multi-asset investment fund designed to transform […]
Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, named co-founder Yi He as its co-CEO on Wednesday, joining Richard Teng in a dual leadership structure. Yi He, a longtime Binance executive, has been with the company for more than eight years and currently serves as its Chief Customer Service Officer, according to her LinkedIn profile. […]
Dubai, UAE – Capital.com, a leading global trading platform and fintech group, today announced a major expansion of its crypto offering alongside robust growth across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The company has added over 1,200 new markets bringing the total numbers of instruments it offers traders to 5000, including a significantly expanded range […]
DMCC has unveiled the world’s largest silver bar – a 1,971kg Guinness World Record asset at the Dubai Precious Metals Conference Silver bar commemorates UAE’s founding year and symbolises national craftsmanship and innovation Bar is now set to be tokenised on DMCC’s Tradeflow platform under landmark project with key industry players Sam Precious Metals, Tokinvest […]
UAE: Zand has received final approval from the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) to launch the country’s first fully regulated, multi-chain AED-backed stablecoin—marking a major milestone in the evolution of digital finance in the region. The new digital asset, Zand AED, will be fully backed 1:1 by UAE dirham reserves, transparently audited, and issued […]
Singapore, Regional, 11 Nov 2025 – DBS and Kinexys by J.P. Morgan are exploring the development of an interoperability framework to enable tokenised value transfers between both banks’ on-chain ecosystems – DBS Token Services and Kinexys Digital Payments. The framework aims to enable the seamless exchangeability and settlement of tokenised deposits[1] across both public and permissioned blockchains, with the aim to […]
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – In a ground-breaking move to merge blockchain technology with real-world assets (RWA) and utility, Hotdesk, Al Maryah Community Bank “Mbank”, Emirates Coin Investment “EmCoin”, and Singularity have partnered and unveiled their plans to launch DESK Token, subject to regulatory approvals. The launch of DESK Token will mark the arrival of […]