MENA’s fastest-growing virtual assets infrastructure business welcomed to JoRegBox – Jordan’s Regulatory Sandbox for Financial Technology and Innovation. Amman, Jordan: Fuze, a leading virtual assets infrastructure provider, has announced its expansion to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It follows the approval granted by the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) to enter the Regulatory Sandbox for Financial […]
AEC Wallet Enables Users to Top Up AE Coin Directly with Crypto
AEC Wallet Receives Central Bank of the UAE Approval to Top Up AE Coin via Crypto Settlement Through Emirates Coin Investment, Licensed by the Capital Market Authority AED Stablecoin LLC, owned by Al Maryah Community Bank, announced a major milestone in its digital transformation journey as its “AEC Wallet” has received approval from the Central […]
Inveniam and MEASA Partners announce merger to address rapidly growing real-world asset market opportunity
ABU DHABI, UAE — Inveniam Capital Partners (“Inveniam”), the global leader in decentralized data infrastructure for real-world assets, today announced that it has entered into a merger agreement with MEASA Partners, an investment and advisory platform founded by a team with decades of asset management experience and a combined track record overseeing more than $700 billion […]
Lulu Financial Holdings partners with Bitpanda to bring digital assets to its global user base
Vienna / Abu Dhabi: Bitpanda Technology Solutions (BTS) today announced a strategic partnership with Lulu Financial Holdings, a financial services provider with a strong presence across the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. The collaboration will enable LuLuFin to offer customers across its platforms with access to digital asset trading via Bitpanda. The service is expected to become […]
Zand and Ripple in strategic partnership to power digital economy with stablecoin and blockchain innovations
10 February 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Zand, an AI and blockchain-powered digital bank in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Ripple, the leading provider of blockchain-based enterprise solutions across traditional and digital finance, are partnering to help advance and support the digital economy, with innovative solutions powered by the Zand AED stablecoin (AEDZ) and […]
SmartCrowd, a Nawy Company, secures VARA in-principle approval for tokenised real estate platform
Dubai, UAE: SmartCrowd, a Nawy company, announced today that its tokenised real estate entity, Nawy Shares, has received In-Principle Approval (IPA) from the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). The approval marks a major milestone in the company’s expansion into regulated tokenised real estate and represents the final step before full authorisation, pending the completion of VARA’s […]
OFZA and Trakx announce strategic collaboration to advance research on crypto tradable index methodologies
Dubai/Paris – OFZA Fintech Virtual Asset Exchange LLC (OFZA), a UAE-based regulated Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP), has entered into a non-binding strategic collaboration with Trakx, a global fintech company registered with the French financial markets regulator (AMF) and specialising in the research and design of Crypto Tradable Index (CTI) methodologies, to advance research, market insight, and […]
Universal launches UAE’s first Central Bank-registered USD stablecoin
Positions the UAE among the first major financial jurisdictions globally to implement a fully regulated framework for USD-denominated settlement for digital assets. Universal is the UAE’s first Registered Foreign Payment Token Issuer. Regulated by the FSRA (ADGM) with a Financial Services Permission to issue a Fiat-Referenced Token. USDU reserves are fully backed 1:1 with U.S. dollars, safeguarded […]
Tabadulat Partners with Fasset to Unlock Tokenised Halal Investments
Abu Dhabi, December 2025 – Tabadulat Limited (Tabadulat), the UAE-based Shariah-compliant investing platform, and Fasset Labuan Limited (Fasset), an international digital assets exchange and blockchain solutions company, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on Shariah-compliant tokenised assets. The partnership brings together Tabadulat’s fully licensed brokerage platform, the UAE’s first free […]
DKK Digital achieves VARA Advisory VASP License
Dubai, UAE – DKK Digital is proud to announce that it has been officially awarded a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) License for Virtual Asset Advisory Services by Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). This license authorizes DKK Digital to provide regulated Virtual Asset Advisory Services in and from Dubai, further expanding its capabilities within one of […]
