Ziina Becomes First Homegrown UAE Fintech With Three CBUAE Licences
UAE fintech Ziina says it is the first homegrown UAE fintech company…
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TransUnion: Under-30s Are Borrowing Smarter, Not More
Under-30s are borrowing differently from their pre-pandemic peers, leaning on…
Compliance Leaders Fear AI-Enabled Crime, but Only 28% Have Fully Deployed AI in Screening
Compliance leaders are worried about AI-enabled financial crime but have been…
Splitit Launches White-Label World Mastercard for Mid-Sized Banks and Credit Unions
Splitit, the installment payments platform, has announced the upcoming launch of the…
Laeceum Report: Lender Due Diligence, Not Regulation, Was the Failure Behind MFS Collapse
The collapse of London bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) was avoidable,…
TBC Uzbekistan Launches Secured Lending for SMEs
TBC Uzbekistan, part of London-listed TBC Bank Group, has launched its…
Barclays Expands Anthropic Partnership, Targets Claude Code for Most Engineers by 2027
Barclays expects half its developers to use Claude Code by the end of 2026, as it extends Anthropic's AI across operations and engineering.…
Splitit Brings Debit and Deposit Account Installments to Jack Henry Banks
Splitit has joined the Jack Henry Fintech Integration Network, letting eligible US banks and credit unions offer installments on debit cards and deposit accounts.…
Checkout.com Goes Live With US Direct Acquiring Under Georgia MALPB Charter
Checkout.com has begun direct card acquiring in the US under its Georgia Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank charter, gaining direct access to card networks.…
PhonePe Wins In-Principle Approval From UAE Central Bank for First International Market
PhonePe has secured in-principle approval from the Central Bank of the UAE for two payment licences, its first step into an international market.…
Mubadala and EBRD Co-Lead $35m Pre-Series C in Paymob as GCC Nears Half of Revenue
Paymob has raised $35m in a pre-Series C round co-led by Mubadala and the EBRD, after GCC revenues grew sevenfold in 18 months.…
barq Closes $329.5m Series A at $1.85bn Valuation
Saudi payments company barq has raised a $329.5m Series A from Noon Investments, Sohar International Bank and M20 Fund, valuing it at $1.85bn.…