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Happy FRIDAY, friends. We come to you this morning with the strange split-screen that has defined our new normal: Washington…
Syria’s banking rebuild creates opening for fintechs filling the gaps
A handful of locally-founded and international fintech players are stepping in to fill the gaps the formal banking system has…
MENA’s publicly-listed tech players are trailing their global counterparts
Venture intelligence platform Magnitt says the region’s top 15 tech stocks returned 76% over three years, in contrast to MSCI…
Why cyber resilience is now a non-negotiable fixed cost for the banking sector in MENA+
March rewrote the Gulf’s cyber risk models — Mashreq’s chief information security officer walks us through the new playbook that…
Egypt-based Thndr to enter Saudi in 2027 as it pivots to a full wealth management stack
The company is bringing a fuller wealth-management platform to the Kingdom
MGX is in on Anthropic as the AI company races OpenAI to IPO
Institutional investors can cash out at IPO, but some pundits are flagging that OpenAI, SpaceX and Anthropic may not be…
India doubles down on MENA ties in search of energy, compute for AI, and defense sales
A USD 5 bn pledge, 30 mn barrels of crude storage, an AI supercluster and a cleared bank takeover —…
Israeli telecom major Bezeq is going after Egypt’s data corridor dominance
Redundancy is increasingly necessary for the Europe-Asia data corridor, but the question is whether this would undermine Egypt’s prominence as…
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