Xpence – one of the MENAP region’s first financial management platform with embedded business banking solutions for SMEs – announces the launch of its expense management solution in the UAE – the second of five strategic markets it plans to launch in over ...

Verto, a leading B2B cross-border payments and Foreign Exchange (FX) enabler, has partnered with ForexPeople to bring secure, fast and seamless global payments to South African businesses buying, selling, or operating globally. With more than US$1.5 billion...

Leading insurance groups, Prudential and Google Cloud have announced a strategic partnership to enhance health and financial inclusion for communities across Asia and Africa. Under this alliance, Prudential will leverage Google Cloud’s data analytics...

Deutsche Bank and Kyndryl, one of the world’s largest IT infrastructure services providers, has announced a new agreement under which the bank will extend one of the largest and longest-running vendor contracts in the financial industry. Kyndryl will continue t...

FinTech Surge 2022, the MENA region’s leading finance and innovation event, is set to return to Dubai World Trade Centre from October 10-13 2022, where it will spark new disruption in the Middle East and North Africa’s burgeoning fintech sector. An integral par...

Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Turkey) region has announced its presence at GITEX Global (GITEX), the region’s largest technology event being held at Dubai World Trade Centre from 10-14 October.  The pa...

Workday has published the results of its latest survey, which examines the state of Digital Transformation in finance, how these efforts are impacted by finance and IT and how CFO-CIO alignment is central to transformation success.   The survey of...

strongDM, the company behind a People-First Access Platform, has released the results of its latest survey, the 2022 Access-Productivity Gap Report, which revealed that almost two-thirds of organisations have their productivity impacted on a daily or weekly b...

Resistant AI, an AI and Machine Learning financial crime prevention specialist, has announced that Habito, an online mortgage broker and lender, has reported a 30% increase in mortgage fraud detection following the implementation of its Document Forensics...

An Open Banking Excellence Campfire shone a light on payment initiation in Brazil and addressed the topic of the country’s Open Banking ecosystem. Guests included representatives of Mastercard, Brazil’s Central Bank and Itaú Unibanco. Brazil’s Open Banking and fi...

CIOs must take time to consider ‘what if’ scenarios to avoid being blindsided by social, behavioural and technological disruptions, according to Gartner. Speaking at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo in Australia, David Yockelson, VP analyst at Gartner, said many dis...

The emergence of the metaverse presents a wild west for regulation. Nick Aronson, VP, Capital Markets, APAC, FIS, discusses the challenges and methods to tackle them as the metaverse is built. The concept of the metaverse represents a multitude of...