Hakbah – the KSA-based fintech savings platform – has announced a new partnership with Tarabut – MENA’s leading open banking platform, and an investor in the region’s digital transformation. The partnership has several benefits for Hakbah as it simplifies and expedites various tasks. It will enable streamlined onboarding and enhancedRead More…

SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions provider, has announced the appointment of Akber Jaffer as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective September 19, 2023. Having spent several years immersed in both start-up and scaled software and technology businesses, Akber Jaffer is an accomplished leader with a passionRead More…

Saudi Arabia’s Mozn, a market leader in enterprise artificial-intelligence technologies, has been recognized as one of the Top 200 FinTech Companies globally, and one of the Top 25 in the “Digital Business Solutions” category by Statista, a leading statistics firm.Read More…

Global payments solution provider, Checkout.com, has launched Intelligent Acceptance, its latest product to help merchants optimise acceptance rates and grow revenues. Intelligent Acceptance is an AI-powered optimization engine, trained on billions of transactional data points from Checkout.com’s global network and insights from the business’ domain expertise after a decade atRead More…

Flutterwave, an African payments technology company, has announced it is working with Microsoft to build its next generation platform on Microsoft Azure, powering payments infrastructure across the African continent and beyond. This agreement reflects com Flutterwave’s commitment to give businesses and individuals access to global-grade services across all of AfricaRead More…

Mastercard, in collaboration with the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) and the Egyptian Banks Company (EBC), is supporting the implementation of card tokenization regulations by providing infrastructure to all issuing banks across the country, ushering in a new era of seamless and secure digital payment transactions for millions of Egyptians,Read More…

Crayon Data has announced its partnership with Redington Middle East and Africa (MEA) in Africa. Together, Crayon Data and Redington MEA will strengthen Africa’s digital backbone with AI-driven solutions. The partnership aims to create a highly differentiated offering for fintech and consumer banking players to accelerate financial inclusion. Suresh Shankar,Read More…

Manafa plans to turbocharge its growth in Saudi Arabia, and expand its offering with the launch of several products and financing solutions across untapped sectors Leading Saudi fintech company Manafa has announced the closing of its Series A round of SAR 106 million (US$28 million) led by STV and Wa’edRead More…