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Arqaam Capital Conference Highlights MENA Capital Market Growth

Arqaam Capital’s 13th MENA Investor Conference explored how diversification, foreign investment, and deeper capital markets are strengthening the region’s global investme

The Middle East and North Africa is entering a new phase of capital market growth, supported by rising foreign investment, expanding debt and equity markets and increasingly diversified economies, according to investors, policymakers and business leaders gathered

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Fintech

ADGM Academy Graduates Third Financial Market Pioneers Cohort

ADGM Academy and its partners graduated 28 Emirati participants from the third Financial Market Pioneers Programme, bringing the total number of graduates to 86.

ADGM Academy (ADGMA), the knowledge arm of Abu Dhabi’s international financial centre, ADGM, in collaboration with the UAE Capital Market Authority (CMA) and Sandooq Al Watan, celebrated the graduation of the third cohort of the Financial Market Pioneers Programme

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AI & ML
Fintech

Qatar Insurance Group Reinvents Insurance with Agentic AI

Scale Gross Written Premium with Agentic Models as Qatar Insurance Group Reinvents the Value Chain

Lars Gehrmann , former Group Chief Digital and AI Officer at Qatar Insurance Group, is driving a structural shift across the Middle Eastern insurance sector by transitioning corporate operations from generative AI testing to a fully

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AI & ML
Internet of Things
Datatech
Fintech

Middle East Banks Leapfrog Legacy Systems to Pioneer Cloud & AI

Middle East Banks Leapfrog Legacy Systems to Pioneer Sovereign Cloud and Agentic AI Architecture

The Middle East financial sector is rapidly outstripping its Western counterparts by bypassing traditional core banking legacies in favor of cutting-edge sovereign cloud infrastructures and agentic artificial intelligence systems.

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Fintech

Scale Capital Inflows and Regulatory Sandboxes Power Growth for Middle E

Money20/20 MEA’s MoneySurge winners are scaling fintech infrastructure across the region, supported by new funding, partnerships, and regulatory sandboxes.

Event organiser Tahaluf is collaborating with regional financial institutions to showcase how the four cohort winners of the Money20/20 MEA MoneySurge pitch competition are accelerating the deployment of institutional financial infrastructure across the Middle Eas

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AI & ML
Fintech

Wix and Stripe unite to let AI agents spin up live businesses

Wix Headless joins Stripe Projects CLI, letting developers and AI agents provision a full business backend in a single command.
Wix Headless joins Stripe Projects CLI, letting developers and AI agents provision a full business backend in a single command.
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Velcan Holdings posts stable 2025 NAV amid macro turbulence

The Luxembourg holding company held its net asset value near €136m despite US-China trade tensions, currency swings, and a Brazilian hydro shortfall.
The Luxembourg holding company held its net asset value near €136m despite US-China trade tensions, currency swings, and a Brazilian hydro shortfall.
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AI & ML
Blockchain
Fintech

Lucas GC patents agentic AI and blockchain tools for Asian insurance

The NASDAQ-listed PaaS firm targets China and ASEAN insurance markets with two new patents spanning agentic AI and blockchain credentials.
The NASDAQ-listed PaaS firm targets China and ASEAN insurance markets with two new patents spanning agentic AI and blockchain credentials.
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AI & ML
Cybersecurity
Fintech

Albion Crown VCT posts flat Q1 NAV amid AI-visibility portfolio bet

The UK venture capital trust's new stake in AI-search optimiser GeoSurge signals a pivot toward the emerging corpus-engineering market.
The UK venture capital trust's new stake in AI-search optimiser GeoSurge signals a pivot toward the emerging corpus-engineering market.
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AI & ML
Cybersecurity
Datatech
Fintech

Cequence records best-ever quarter as agentic AI security demand surges

API security firm Cequence posts record Q4 and its largest-ever deal as enterprises race to secure agentic AI deployments at scale.
API security firm Cequence posts record Q4 and its largest-ever deal as enterprises race to secure agentic AI deployments at scale.
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AI & ML
Fintech

Trident Digital Tech deploys Ghana tax platform for 530,000 MSMEs

A Singapore-Nasdaq firm's live GRA partnership tests sovereign digital infrastructure as a replicable emerging-market playbook.
A Singapore-Nasdaq firm's live GRA partnership tests sovereign digital infrastructure as a replicable emerging-market playbook.
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AI & ML
Fintech

Alpha Modus launches ARIA to bring real-time AI to physical retail

The patent-backed PaaS platform, built on Anthropic's Claude, targets the 80% of consumer spending still happening in physical stores.
The patent-backed PaaS platform, built on Anthropic's Claude, targets the 80% of consumer spending still happening in physical stores.
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AI & ML
Fintech

Constellation Software snaps up Finastra's US banking unit

CORA Group's acquisition of Phoenix, Malauzai and Fusion Analytics accelerates consolidation in US mid-market core banking software.
CORA Group's acquisition of Phoenix, Malauzai and Fusion Analytics accelerates consolidation in US mid-market core banking software.
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Fintech

Aemetis secures $1.1bn tax-exempt bond pathway for California biofuels

California's CPCFA backs up to $1.1bn in green bonds for dairy-biogas, SAF and CO2 sequestration, testing green-finance capital flows.
California's CPCFA backs up to $1.1bn in green bonds for dairy-biogas, SAF and CO2 sequestration, testing green-finance capital flows.
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Property
AI & ML
Fintech

Texas NTS deploys multi-agent AI to map every state foreclosure

A Lubbock-built platform now monitors all 254 Texas counties daily, closing a data gap that institutional capital has long tolerated.
A Lubbock-built platform now monitors all 254 Texas counties daily, closing a data gap that institutional capital has long tolerated.
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Datatech
Fintech

Aemetis revenue jumps 27% as US tax credits reshape biofuel economics

Section 45Z production tax credits and dairy RNG expansion help Aemetis swing from gross loss to profit in Q1 2026.
Section 45Z production tax credits and dairy RNG expansion help Aemetis swing from gross loss to profit in Q1 2026.
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Fintech

83% of U.S. Bettors Want Crypto Payments, Says Paysafe

Paysafe research found that 83% of U.S. bettors want to use cryptocurrency for sportsbook deposits, highlighting growing demand for digital asset payments and withdrawals in online betting.

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