The National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) announced the launch of its latest customer-centric initiative targeting its international digital wallet users. In collaboration with Mastercard, the exclusive campaign offers customers the chance to win 100% cashback when using NBB’s Credit or Prepaid cards through their international digital wallets using any of their iOS devices. The offer […]

Invest Bank, a premier commercial bank in UAE, has selected Temenos to take its digital and core banking to the cloud, in partnership with NdcTech. Invest Bank will adopt an end-to-end retail and wholesale banking solution on the Temenos Banking Cloud, becoming one of the first in the UAE to adopt a full SaaS model […]

Fitch Learning and Banque Saudi Fransi (BSF) announced a new 2022 Banker Associate Program in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) after the successful graduation of the 2021 cohort. The program will run from September 2022 until March 2023. The latest successful cohort graduated on 15th August 2022 at a ceremony held in BSF’s head […]

Fintech Galaxy, the industry-leading financial innovation company, has become the first central bank regulated Open Finance platform in the MENA region after receiving a license from the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB), allowing the firm to operate as a regulated Third-Party Provider (TPP) and transform the way banks, financial institutions and merchants attract new customers. […]

As the holidays approach, Square is launching two of its powerful, vertical-specific software solutions, Square for Retail and Square Appointments, on Square Terminal to sellers around the globe. Retailers and beauty and personal care professionals can now offer customers flexible, on-the-go checkout experiences for additional convenience and time savings. With busy crowds expected during the […]

PTCL Group, the country’s leading telecom and ICT services provider, has announced its financial results for the nine months ended September 30, 2022, at its Board of Directors’ meeting held in UAE on October 13, 2022.   PTCL Group remained on the growth trajectory during the third quarter as its fixed and wireless streams continued to perform positively. […]

YAP Pakistan, the first regional financial super app providing consumers and businesses with a one-stop shop of innovative financial products, has partnered with Bank Alfalah, one of Pakistan’s largest commercial banks, to offer customized digital financial products and services for small and medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the country. The collaboration paves the way to create […]

SC Ventures announced the launch of Appro, a fintech startup that digitises, streamlines and simplifies the retail banking user journey. Backed by SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm, the bank-agnostic platform aims to reduce the time taken to complete the application processes for retail banking products – such as credit cards […]

PayPal Holdings, Inc. announced PayPal Pay Monthly, its newest buy now, pay later offering, issued by WebBank, which gives U.S. consumers the ability to spread payments out over longer periods of time. With the addition of Pay Monthly, customers will have access to a new offering through PayPal that gives them greater flexibility and even […]

Daali, a UK-based automated cashback platform for in-store card transactions, partners up with Salt Edge, provider of Open Banking solution. The partnership will help to transform the way reward and loyalty work for brick-and-mortar stores, by making bank accounts’ connection to the app seamless and safe. Leveraging Salt Edge’s open banking solutions, Daali offers its […]