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15 pieces filed under fintech
Tech Innovation in the Gulf: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities
In an era of rapid technological advancement, the Gulf region is experiencing a surge in tech innovation despite regulatory hurdles.
By Rasha Karim
TechnologyJul 28
Tech Innovations Thrive Amidst Regional Challenges
Despite political and economic obstacles, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continues to make strides in technology.
By Rasha Karim
TechnologyJul 26
Tech Innovations Pave the Way for Economic Growth in the MENA Region
New technologies are transforming various sectors, from fintech to healthcare.
By Rasha Karim
BusinessJul 1
The Missing Middle: Lending to the Region's Small Firms
The small businesses that employ most of the region still struggle to borrow, and fintech is circling the gap
By Diego Arroyo
TechnologyJul 1
Fintech Reaches the People the Banks Forgot
For workers long shut out of formal banking, a phone is quietly becoming a wallet, a bank and a lifeline
By Sara Qureshi
BusinessJun 30
The Gold Souk Learns to Trade in Pixels
The region's ancient hunger for gold is meeting the app economy, and changing both
By Lena Holloway
TechnologyJun 30
The Donation Box Goes Cashless
Even the oldest rituals of giving are quietly moving to a tap, and something subtle shifts in the gesture
By Diego Arroyo
TechnologyJun 30
How the Super App Ate Daily Life
In much of the region a single app now carries payments, rides, food and bills, quietly rearranging the shape of a day
By Priya Chen
TechnologyJun 28
Super-Apps and the Regional Bet on the Everything Platform
Why regional players are racing to fold rides, payments, and shopping into one app, and whether anyone asked for it
By Priya Chen
BusinessJun 28
Gold Souks, Fintech, and the Stubborn Persistence of Cash
A region racing toward digital payments still trusts the weight of gold and the feel of a banknote
By Lena Holloway
TechnologyJun 28
The Cashless Donation Box and the Quiet Digitization of Faith
Contactless giving is arriving at mosques and charities, reshaping an intimate, centuries-old act of trust
By Sara Qureshi
BusinessJun 4
The Regional Bank Branch Has Quietly Become a Museum Piece
Why the marble lobbies are still being built, even as the actual banking has moved elsewhere, and what the lobbies are now actually for.
By Marcus Okafor
BusinessJun 3
The Regional Spreadsheet Has Quietly Become a Cultural Object
Inside the unstoppable rise of a particular file format among a particular cohort of regional professional women, and why the rest of us should pay attention.
By Sara Qureshi
WorldJun 3
Central Asia Is Quietly the Next Pipeline of Pipelines
Why a region nobody in Gulf finance was thinking about three years ago is suddenly on every infrastructure desk's whiteboard.
By Marcus Okafor
WorldJun 3
The Diaspora Is Banking Differently. The Banks Have Not Quite Noticed.
Why the remittance corridor between a particular pair of countries is being quietly disintermediated, and what the incumbent banks are doing about it, which is mostly nothing.
By Lena Holloway