Middle East

Checkout.com integrates the UAE's sovereign card scheme, giving merchants local routing and built-in regulatory compliance in one platform.

Tessera's option to acquire Israeli aerostat firm RT LTA signals a cross-sector convergence of persistent ISR hardware and AI-driven security platforms.

A two-week capital surge across Saudi, UAE and Egypt signals the Gulf's payment infrastructure is becoming a sovereign-grade asset class.

Dubai conglomerate Al-Futtaim deploys Juspay's orchestration layer across 12 markets, laying groundwork for agentic commerce.

A UK crypto accounting firm joins a global accelerator to plug a structural compliance gap for Web3 founders scaling across the Gulf.

Abu Dhabi's DoH designates three hospitals as breast cancer Centres of Excellence, signalling the emirate's push to become a global healthcare destination.

Sovereign and development capital backs MENA's payments infrastructure layer as GCC revenues triple and agentic commerce shapes the next product frontier.

SAMA's Alipay+ and Apple Tap to Pay moves signal Riyadh's bid to anchor global fintech capital flows.

The partnership plugs Telr's regulated Gulf acquiring into MoneyHash's orchestration layer, lowering the integration bar for merchants entering MENA.

Banks can accelerate innovation by defining problems clearly and using pre-validation, standardisation, and collaboration to move ideas into adoption faster.

Abu Dhabi's sovereign-backed JV bets AED 4.7bn on real estate anchoring the Gulf's AI and clean-energy convergence zone.

The Israeli defence-tech deal pairs AI-driven security infrastructure with electric-motor testing for drones, aircraft and ground vehicles.

A US-listed homeland security firm deepens its bet on Israeli drone-motor testing as autonomous threats reshape physical security economics.

Central bank governors' live card payment, barq's $329.5m Series A and a new SME financing fund made Money20/20 Middle East's second day about capital.

Fasset's DDSC listing marks the first retail deployment of a central-bank-approved non-dollar stablecoin on a VARA-regulated platform.

Tabby's $6.5bn valuation, a SAR 500m SME financing fund and payouts into six new markets opened Money20/20 Middle East, each built on a licence.

Aramco's VC arm co-leads a $13m Series B as BRKZ deploys AI pricing across Saudi Arabia's fragmented building materials market.

Sovereign and private capital unite behind a UAE fleet telematics consolidator as Gulf regulatory tailwinds reshape transport infrastructure.

Partech leads a Series A for a Cairo-Abu Dhabi fintech building sovereign AI credit infrastructure across MEA and Latin America.

What a stablecoin is, what backs the dollar, why $300bn now sits in them, and how the US, EU and UK rules written in the last two years change the picture.