Middle East

Bank Aljazira will send retail remittances over Thunes’ Direct Global Network to bank accounts and mobile wallets in APAC, Europe and the GCC.

Ant International has run pilot dirham and US dollar transfers in the UAE on HSBC’s Tokenised Deposit Service, the bank’s first Middle East client to do so.

National Bank of Bahrain is the first bank in BENEFIT’s Trade Finance Registry, which lets lenders check an invoice before they fund it.

Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD) has become the first bank from the Middle East, and the first from outside Europe,…

Escalating Iran–US tensions are prompting a reassessment of cloud infrastructure exposure, subsea cable connectivity and enterprise continuity risks across the…

Rising tensions in West Asia involving the United States, Israel and Iran are drawing close attention from global trade and…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 20, 2025 (EZ Newswire) — Following the In-Principle Approval (IPA) granted by the Dubai Financial…