Wamda

Saudi Arabia

Saudi fintech Spare raises $3 million to fuel expansion

Saudi Arabia-based fintech startup Spare has raised a $3 million round led by Vision Ventures with participation from Wa'ed...

spare Fintech Open banking

Regional

Lending in the era of open banking

Abdulla Almoayed is the founder and CEO of Tarabut Optimism about improving the ease and speed of approving retail lending abounds...

Open banking lending

Saudi Arabia

Open banking in Mena: Shifting gears and making strides

Abdulla Almoayed is the founder and CEO of open banking platform Tarabut Gateway The Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region is now...

Open banking Fintech

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Central Bank launches open banking framework

The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) has issued its open banking framework, a set of legislation, regulatory guidelines and technical standards...

Open banking Fintech

U.A.E

Verity: Driving financial access for the region's children

It was during one of his evening jogs that Kamal Al-Samarrai wondered why he found himself in a position of financial difficulty. At the...

Verity app financial literacy Open banking

Regional

What is the state of open banking regulations in Mena today?

Abdulla Almoayed is the founder and CEO of Tarabut Gateway, an open banking startup headquartered in the UAE The tide of open banking...

Open banking Tarabut Gateway

Saudi Arabia

Tarabut Gateway partners with four Saudi banks as open banking nears

Bahrain founded and UAE-based open banking platform Tarabut Gateway has partnered with four banks in Saudi Arabia, including Riyad Bank,...

Tarabut Gateway Open banking

Egypt

Egypt launches digital payments system InstaPay

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has applied an open banking system by launching the InstaPay application, a national system for instant...

InstaPay Open banking

Saudi Arabia

Lean raises $33 million in round led by Sequoia Capital

Saudi Arabia-based fintech Lean Technologies has raised $33 million in a Series A round led by Sequoia Capital India, marking the US...

Lean Technologies Open banking Sequoia Capital

Regional

How open banking is changing the payments landscape in Mena

Abdulla Almoayed is the founder and CEO of open banking platform Tarabut Gateway, which recently closed a $12 million pre-Series A round...

Open banking Tarabut Gateway

Regional

The startup fighting for open finance in Mena

Mirna Sleiman is on a mission to revolutionise the Middle East’s banking and financial sector. Having spent more than eight years...

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Bahrain

Tarabut Gateway raises $12 million pre-Series A led by Tiger Global

UAE-based open banking platform Tarabut Gateway has raised $12 million in a pre-Series A round led by Tiger Global, alongside new...

Fintech Open banking Tarabut Gateway

Egypt

What can open banking do for Egypt?

Akram Abdou is the founder of Egypt-based Underlie, an open banking platform offering application programming interfaces (APIs) to...

Open banking

Regional

An evolving landscape: The state of open banking regulations in Mena

Abdulla Almoayed is the founder and CEO of open banking platform Tarabut Gateway. Here, he discusses how government regulations are shaping...

Fintech Open banking Regulations

Bahrain

Tarabut Gateway raises $13 million

Bahrain-based open banking platform Tarabut Gateway has closed a seed funding round of $13 million, hailed to be the largest fintech seed...

Tarabut Gateway Fintech Seed funding

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s SAMA issues open banking policy

SAMA, Saudi Arabia’s Central Bank has today announced its intent to launch an open banking regulatory framework in the kingdom. In...

Open banking

U.A.E

Is open banking the answer to boosting the UAE property market?

Michael Hunter is the co-founder of Holo Open banking is a term we have been hearing a lot over the past three years, since the...

Fintech Open banking

Regional

The issue of open banking [part two]

In the first part of this feature, we introduced the concept of open banking. Here, we take a closer look at the regulatory...

Fintech Open banking

Regional

The issue of open banking [part one]

Following DAPI’s open letter to the UAE Bank Federation Advisory Council penned by co-founder Mohammed Aziz over a month ago, open...

Fintech Open banking DAPI

Regional

The slow rise of neobanking in the Middle East

This week’s biggest financial news came from Abu Dhabi after investment firm ADQ, the holding company for some of the biggest assets...

Fintech Open banking neo banking

U.A.E

Open banking: DAPI's open letter to the UAE Bank Federation Advisory Council

An open letter on open banking, a framework for responsible innovation for banks and the fintech community in the UAE Members of the...

Fintech Open banking DAPI

Saudi Arabia

Lean raises $3.5 million in seed funding

Riyadh-based financial technology (fintech) startup Lean, has raised a $3.5 million in a seed funding round led by RAED Venture, with...

lean Fintech Open banking

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