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SAMA Approves EZ Bank as Saudi Arabia's 39th Licensed Bank with SAR 2.5 Billion Capital

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 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

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

Payments & Fintech

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,...

Payments & Fintech

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

Payments & Fintech

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 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...

Hyperpersonalisation: Real-Time, AI-Driven Customer Engagement

Hyperpersonalisation: Real-Time, AI-Driven Customer Engagement

How real-time data and AI are enabling banks to move from broad segmentation to true one-to-one customer engagement - and where most efforts still fall short.

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

Digital Banking

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...

Best Open Banking Initiative 2025: ADCB

Best Open Banking Initiative 2025: ADCB

ADCB becomes first bank certified for UAE open finance - earning our Best Open Banking Initiative Award.

Visa expands its Saudi payments infrastructure with locally hosted acceptance platform

Payments & Fintech

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...