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For more than a decade, Anouar Adham worked inside Islamic banks, institutions created to offer financial services consistent with Islamic…
For decades, moving money across borders has meant navigating a maze of banks, payment rails, intermediaries and local regulations. The…
For many small and medium-sized businesses, growth is often constrained by something surprisingly basic: access to working capital. A company…
For businesses operating across the Middle East and North Africa, accepting payments can still mean navigating a maze of local…
Saudi Arabia’s small and medium-sized businesses are becoming an increasingly important part of the Kingdom’s financial system, but serving them…
Bahrain-headquartered private markets investment platform Tanami has closed a new funding round backed by a group of strategic regional and…
Saudi digital payments company barq has closed a $329.5 million Series A funding round at a $1.85 billion valuation, making…
Saudi Arabia-based proptech company Rize has secured a SAR187.5 million ($50 million) asset-backed Murabaha facility from Jadwa Investment, giving the…
Saudi fintech infrastructure company Tarabut has secured $50 million in strategic financing from a group of leading Saudi financial institutions…
Tabby has raised $233 million in equity funding at a $6.5 billion valuation, giving the Middle East fintech one of…
UAE-based AI startup Synapse Analytics has raised $13 million in a Series A funding round led by Partech, with participation…
Egypt-based fintech Zeal has raised $10 million in a new funding round, bringing its total funding to $14 million as…
Saudi Arabia-based fintech Nayla has secured approximately $18 million in pre-Series A funding, combining equity and debt financing, as the…
The Personal Question Behind a Pan-African Ambition The idea for NylaBank did not begin with a spreadsheet, a market report…
Fasset, the AI-powered stablecoin neobanking platform founded by Mohammad Raafi Hossain and Daniel Ahmed, has raised $68 million in a…
UAE-based taxtech startup Tax Star has raised $1.75 million in a Seed funding round, backed primarily by angel investors, as…
From Student Leadership to Reinventing Payments The idea behind Kanam Pay began with a problem that sounds almost trivial: a…
From Investor to Founder For Nurmukhammad Ismoilov, the origins of entrepreneurship did not begin with a startup idea. They began…
Quick Facts Qatar’s fintech ecosystem continues to gain momentum as SkipCash has secured a strategic investment from Qatar International Islamic…