June 15, 2026 The combined company will give businesses a single partner to accept, hold, and move money – including stablecoin transactions – across 190+ countries and territories At close, the combined company is expected to generate approximately $3 billion in annual revenue and process more than $500 billion in annual payment volume for more than 2.4 million customers MONTREAL and NEW YORK, June […]
The agreement was formally signed at Almana Group headquarters in Doha, Qatar, marking the start of a strategic collaboration to develop payroll-linked Earned Wage Access (EWA) solutions across the GCC, with broader expansion plans expected to extend into selected Southeast Asian markets. Doha, Qatar – 16 May 2026 The scope of the investment includes the […]
Prague, Czech Republic – Qatar Development Bank (QDB) and SACE S.p.A., Italy’s export credit agency and one of the world’s leading Export Credit Agencies (ECAs), signed an export credit reinsurance agreement on June 11, 2026, on the sidelines of TXF Global 2026: Export, Agency & Project Finance, held in Prague, Czech Republic. The agreement establishes a framework […]
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 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 transact with one […]
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 ZagTrader, a strategic initiative that repositions ZagTrader as the […]