SAMA Licenses EZ Bank as Saudi Arabia's 39th Bank with SAR 2.5 Billion Capital
The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) has announced the Cabinet's approval…
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Stripe launches new products to drive stablecoins and agentic commerce
Stripe has introduced Open Issuance from Bridge, enabling businesses to launch and manage their own stablecoins with minimal code through the platform that...…
SAMA Approves EZ Bank as Saudi Arabia's 39th Licensed Bank with SAR 2.5 Billion Capital
The Saudi Central Bank has approved EZ Bank as the Kingdom's 39th licensed bank, a digital-first institution capitalised at SAR 2.5 billion designed to...…
STC Bank Deploys Mozn's FOCAL Platform to Strengthen Financial Crime Prevention
STC Bank has entered a strategic agreement with Saudi AI company Mozn to deploy the FOCAL platform for financial crime prevention, strengthening the digital...…
Signicat Launches ReuseID for Cross-Border Digital Identity Management
European identity services provider Signicat has launched ReuseID, a reusable digital identity…
Citi and Dandelion Collaborate to Transform Cross-Border Payments
Citi has partnered with Euronet's Dandelion platform to enable near-instant, full-value cross-border payments directly into digital wallets globally,...…
Swift to set new rules for retail cross-border payments on its network
Swift has announced a new payments scheme designed to transform consumer and SME cross-border transactions on its network, promising fast, predictable...…
TerraPay & D360 Bank Launch Seamless Payouts to Saudi Arabia
TerraPay has partnered with D360 Bank to enable instant, compliant inbound cross-border payments to Saudi Arabia, enhancing remittance flows into the...…
Mashreq Announces Commercial Launch of Digital Retail Bank in Pakistan
Mashreq has officially launched its full-service digital retail bank in Pakistan, marking the first international deployment of its NEO digital banking...…
OAB Expands ITM and ATM Capabilities to Enhance Digital Self-Service Banking
Oman Arab Bank has announced a significant upgrade to its Interactive Teller Machine and ATM network, rolling out expanded digital self-service capabilities...…
Tamara Secures New Asset-Backed Facility of Up to $2.4 Billion
Saudi fintech Tamara has secured a new asset-backed financing facility of up to $2.4 billion from Goldman Sachs, Citi, and Apollo, providing the capital to...…
Visa expands its Saudi payments infrastructure with locally hosted acceptance platform
Visa has launched its Acceptance Platform on a local cloud in Saudi Arabia, a world-first deployment that provides Saudi merchants with locally hosted...…