Dubai, UAE – Kudo.com, formerly known as Kudotrade, has announced the successful acquisition of a UAE Capital Markets Authority (CMA) licence, marking a significant milestone in the company’s evolution and reinforcing its commitment to serving traders and investors across the Middle East. The regulatory approval follows Kudo’s recent rebrand and reflects the company’s continued growth from […]
Ras Al Khaimah, UAE — The TFSF Ventures Emerges agentic economy stopped being theoretical this week. With the world’s largest payment networks now opening their rails to autonomous AI agents — credentialed, permissioned, and settling transactions at machine speed — the question facing every financial institution and enterprise has shifted from whether software agents will […]
Abu Dhabi: The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) and the World Bank Group signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation in the areas of financial inclusion, financial literacy, financial consumer protection and financial dispute resolution, as part of the ongoing cooperation between both parties. The signing was witnessed by H.E. Khaled Mohamed Balama, Governor of […]
More than 30 industry leaders, including Adyen, Ant International, BVNK, Checkout.com, Cloudflare, Coinbase, Getnet by Santander, Global Payments, Lovable, OKX, Stripe and Tempo, are among the first to leverage and support adoption. The rise of AI has created new ways to buy and sell goods and services. Now it’s requiring a new class of payments. Mastercard envisions a […]
Strategic collaboration enables authorized merchants to offer Valu’s flexible payment solutions through POS terminals and e-commerce checkout powered by MEPS’s national payments infrastructure and PayTabs payment orchestration platform Amman, Jordan – 10 June 2026: Valu Jordan, a leading fintech platform in the Middle East and North Africa, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Middle East […]
Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong; As Bank of Singapore intensifies its push in the ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) segment, the Bank is appointing another veteran private banker to its senior leadership team covering its core markets. On 1 July 2026, Mr Lim Leong Guan will assume the role of Head of Private Banking, Middle East, South Asia & International. […]
New initiative gives banks, brokers, fintechs, and asset managers API access, developer documentation, and client-accessible source code to build branded trading journeys on top of ZagTrader’s proven infrastructure layer. Dubai, June 10 – ZagTrader, the capital markets technology provider, today announced the launch of Build on, a strategic initiative that repositions Zag Trader as the […]
Solutions+, a Mubadala company, is the remaining shareholder with 51% Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: BlueFive Capital, a global alternative investment platform, announced today, through its BlueFive Reef PE Fund I, the completion of its acquisition of a 49% stake in LeasePlan Emirates from Ayvens, a global leader in sustainable mobility. Following the transaction, Solutions+ will […]
NEW YORK and ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Blue Owl Capital (“Blue Owl”) (NYSE: OWL) today announced the opening of its new office in ADGM, the international financial center strategically located in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The office opening strengthens its global and regional footprint and underscores its long-term […]
Cairo, Egypt – Telda and Mastercard Egypt’s unified financial experience have joined forces to introduce a new integrated solution in Egypt, seamlessly connecting everyday payments and investment wallets within the Telda app, marking a major step toward a fully unified digital ecosystem. Leveraging Mastercard’s advanced technology, Telda is transforming financial services into an experience that is […]