The head of Dubai’s cryptocurrency authority is reportedly resigning after 11 months on the job. Henson Orser, who became CEO of the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA)...
Standard Chartered Ventures and SBI Holdings are forming a $100 million company to back cryptocurrency startups. The new venture will be based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
Tabby, a buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform based in Riyadh, has raised $200 million in its Series D funding round, achieving a valuation of...
Is your smart voice assistant speaking your language? With how technology is fast evolving, the likelihood of that answer being “yes” grows stronger with each...
The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) has introduced Aani, an instant payments platform. Developed by Al Etihad Payments (AEP), a subsidiary of CBUAE,...
Visa has announced a partnership with ABHI and YellowPepper to introduce account-to-account (A2A) payments in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This collaboration will drive innovation, promote financial inclusion...
Dubai-based payment solutions provider Swipe2B has surpassed $2 billion in B2B supplier payments in the UAE. The company’s payment solution offers a range of benefits for buyers...
Visa and NEOPAY, the payment subsidiary of Mashreq, have joined forces to introduce an installment payment solution to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The partnership aims to provide...
Today’s large language models (LLMs) aren’t actually trained on that large a set of languages. For the most part, the vernacular vehicle underlying the generative...