Global Islamic Finance Assets to Reach $9.7tn by 2029, LSEG and ICD Report Finds

Global Islamic finance assets are projected to reach $9.7trillion by 2029, growing at an average annual…

Bahrain FinTech Bay and Tether Sign MoU to Promote Blockchain Adoption

Bahrain FinTech Bay, the Kingdom’s leading fintech hub, and Tether, the largest company in the digital…

Learn How Fintechs Optimize and Reduce Remittance Costs

As at 2024, there were about 304 million international migrants. And as they work and earn,…

ACI Worldwide Partners with BitPay to Power Crypto and Stablecoin Payments for Merchants

Global payments technology company ACI Worldwide partnered with cryptocurrency payments processor BitPay to expand its digital…

Klarna Launches Debit-First Card in UK to Disrupt Retail Banking, Moving Beyond Instalments

Payments giant Klarna has formally expanded into the UK retail banking sector, rolling out its Klarna…

UAE Fintech Giant Qashio Acquires Sanad Cash to Accelerate Saudi Expansion

Qashio, the UAE’s leading corporate spend management platform, acquired Sanad Cash, one of Saudi Arabia’s first…

HSBC Partners with Juspay to Build Full-Stack Acquiring Solution for Digital Merchants

HSBC is partnering with payments infrastructure company Juspay to launch a new, full-stack acquiring platform tailored…

Mastercard Launches Merchant Cloud to Simplify Payments and Drive Global Commerce Growth

Payments giant Mastercard today announced Merchant Cloud, a next-generation payments platform designed to unify services and…

SCA and VARA Collaborate on Regulatory Framework for Virtual Assets in UAE

The Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) and the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) announced a…

UK Venture Funding Surges to Multi-Year High in Q3, HSBC Innovation Banking and Dealroom Report Finds

UK startups and scaleups secured $9billion in venture capital funding in the third quarter of 2025,…