UAE Central Bank deepens Syria, Morocco ties, targets cross-border payments, fintech growth
The CBUAE and Central Bank of Syria have signed an MoU covering payment systems, monetary policy, cash management and financial technology...
Tag : FinTech
Silver lining for UK equity market? Airtel Money targets USD 9 billion London IPO
While Hong Kong and New York have seen a massive upsurge in IPO activities in 2026, only seven companies got listed in the UK as of this week...
Singapore bets SUSD 220 million on fintech just as the money dries up
MAS has reopened its chequebook in the weakest funding half the city-state has seen in a decade. Hong Kong, meanwhile, is winning the league tables...
Meet Kunal Shah: Meta’s surprising yet powerful pick for WhatsApp CEO’s post
Kunal Shah will replace Will Cathcart, the current head of WhatsApp, as the latter moves to a new role within Meta after seven years leading the messaging service...
Global fintech Ebury announces sponsorship of Formula 2 driver Alex Dunne
As per the pact, Dunne will continue to race for Rodin Motorsport, where his car will bear the Ebury logo on the side of its front wing for the 2026 season...
Huawei Cloud, Thndr to accelerate Egypt’s AI-driven fintech innovation
The two companies will be working on joint innovation projects using cloud and AI to improve the efficiency and security of digital financial services...
With record revenue surge, global fintech races ahead of legacy banks
As per the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and FT Partners, fintech now accounts for approximately 4% of the total global financial services revenue pool...
’X is likely to start with full interoperability before trying to lock financial activity within its ecosystem’
As X expands into financial services and digital wallets, the platform is positioning itself to capture the next phase of payments, commerce, and creator-driven transactions...
X Money: Flirty Social Media Courting Nitpicking Finance
Social platforms have spent years trying to remove every bit of friction, making interactions instant, seamless, almost effortless. But financial services don’t really work that way. They bring friction back into the picture, whether platforms like it or not...
Caution by banks is driving SMEs in UK to Fintech
Funding Circle claims that its lending added £7.9 billion to the UK economy in 2025, and helped support around 117,000 jobs...