Ramy S.
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Ramy S. reposted thisRamy S. reposted thisOne forum. A room full of leaders. Conversations shaping what comes next for digital money. MESC Forum 2026 - Organised by The Wealth Today and hosted by Middle East Stablecoin Association - MESA - brought together regulators, banks, treasurers, custodians and builders to exchange perspectives on stablecoins, tokenisation and institutional adoption. Thank you to our speakers, sponsors and everyone who joined us in Dubai. Here's a look back at the day. See you at the next edition. #MESCForum #TheWealthToday #MESA #DigitalMoney #DigitalAssets Bhaskar Dasgupta Paul Kayrouz Kokila Alagh Matthew Neyman Wai Lum Kwok Bryan Stirewalt Bhavin Shah Maha Al-Saadi Ramy S. Julien OLIVIER Kristiina Lumeste Jagadeshwaran KothandaPani Phil Langton Vince Turcotte Philippe Clonen Abdul Rafay Gadit Dishang Patel Finali Fernando Amith Rajan Ramana Kumar A Tony Ashraf Reece Merrick Andre Olivier Ayad Butt Naman Kapoor Joseph Cleetus Tejas Dholakia Mirnas Brescic, CFA Ilham Tamimi Abdallah Mukalled Erica Badocco Souzan Esmaili Arushi Goel Atul Khekade Sherlocq Apex Group Ltd ADI Foundation USDU / Universal
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Ramy S. shared thisA busy two days this week took me to two very different kinds of treasury, in two countries. On Tuesday I was in Dubai at the Association of Corporate Treasurers Middle East Treasury Summit (METS). The world’s largest banks and asset managers were out in force, alongside CFOs and treasurers from some of the region’s biggest corporates and sovereign institutions. Digital money and tokenisation were firmly on the agenda. Somewhat amusingly, I even became one of the faces of HSBC’s tokenised money in a video with Finali Fernando. The Middle East Stablecoin Association - MESA had a strong presence on the stage, and we signed an MOU with ACT to deepen collaboration on digital assets. I’m very pleased with how this relationship has developed. Then on to the Dead Sea for the Jordan Fintech Festival where the treasuries on stage belonged to countries. The Central Bank of Jordan, the Central Bank of Syria, the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH were all represented on stage. The conversation covered government disbursements, aid, financial inclusion and rebuilding financial infrastructure. What struck me most was the openness to fintech innovation. Necessity is the mother of invention, and it was fascinating to hear how institutions working under hard constraints are building practical solutions. The UAE digital assets community was also there to support with stablecoin expertise, including Husam H. from DDSC Serena Sebastiani from Fuze Finance alongside Alaa Al Rousan,MBA from Swift . This was my first conference representing Saleem (سليم), which made it personally significant. It led to very productive conversations with people driving change at the Central Bank of Syria and the Palestine Monetary Authority, among others. It’s always good to spend time with fellow builders. Moataz Alobaid from Shaheen money, it was great spending time together and I wish you every success. Maha Al-Saadi, thank you for encouraging me to attend and for all your help. Great to see you twice in one week! My biggest takeaway was how tangible the problem Saleem is solving has become. At METS, a sovereign institution asked how its subsidiary could pay unbanked agricultural workers in Africa. At Jordan Fintech Festival, we heard how USSD payments can serve people in the West Bank using 2G and 3G networks, including those without smartphones. Both raise the same question: how do you move money to people the traditional financial system struggles to reach? The technology to do it exists today, and so does the need. If you control a treasury and handle cross-border flows from the Gulf into Syria, Lebanon, Jordan or Pakistan, I’d like to speak with you. That might mean aid disbursement, paying suppliers or moving funds between your own entities. Saleem is building the last-mile infrastructure to get money from any treasury to any phone. www.saleem.digital
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Ramy S. shared thisAn excellent chat with Dan Mottice from Modern Treasury. Convergence and maturity in the offering were clear themes discussed. Thanks for being on with Luther M. and I. Please listen, like and subscribe!Ramy S. shared this🎙️ New Episode Alert | The Stablecoin Podcast Featuring Dan Mottice, Head of Stablecoins at Modern Treasury and ex-founder of Beam (acq by Modern Treasury) In this episode, Luther M. and Ramy S. sit down with Dan Mottice to examine what happens when stablecoins stop being treated as a separate payment system and become another programmable rail within the broader money movement stack. With experience spanning Visa, Beam, and now Modern Treasury, Dan offers a perspective from inside the convergence of fiat payment infrastructure, stablecoin liquidity, wallets, banking rails, and enterprise payment orchestration. The conversation goes deeper into: 🚀 Payment orchestration across rails. How ACH, wires, and stablecoins can operate within a unified money movement layer — shifting the focus from replacing rails to connecting them. 🚀 Stablecoins as liquidity infrastructure. Why stablecoins are increasingly being used as global liquidity, powering dollar accounts and payment experiences without necessarily being visible to the end user. 🚀 The enterprise stack maturing. How wallets, liquidity, on/off ramps and blockchain infrastructure are coming together to make enterprise-grade stablecoin products increasingly practical. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: https://lnkd.in/e_5GFY7Z 👉 Building infrastructure around stablecoins, payments or digital money? Connect with Stablecoin Partners to explore the regulatory, product and market infrastructure considerations shaping institutional adoption. #Stablecoins #StablecoinPodcast #DigitalMoney #Payments #Treasury #PaymentInfrastructure #Fintech #Banking #Tokenization #DigitalAssets #FinancialInfrastructure
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Ramy S. shared thisHot off the press. Walid Abou Zaki - thank you for the article.Ramy S. shared thisStablecoins can cross a blockchain in seconds. Reaching the person they were meant to pay can still take days. That is the problem Saleem (سليم) wants to solve. The ADGM-registered, pre-launch platform is building institutional payment infrastructure designed to reach recipients through the phone already in their hands—even a basic handset, without requiring a bank account or mobile data. The model recalls an important lesson from M-Pesa: digital money becomes transformative only when the distribution network makes it accessible. Saleem is not issuing another token or asking every recipient to open a new wallet. It aims to sit above existing operator and bank wallets, coordinating routing, screening, records and reconciliation, while licensed partners perform the regulated activities. The difficult part still lies ahead: production integrations, regulatory permissions, liquidity, security testing and the first live pilots. Stablecoins may have solved much of the transfer. The last mile remains unfinished. A closer look at the model being built by Ramy S. and the Saleem team. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/dk6aUaC8 #Stablecoins #Payments #FinancialInclusion #Remittances
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Ramy S. shared thisSo its time to tell you what I've been up to (apart from Middle East Stablecoin Association - MESA. and Digital Money Association work). I've been in stablecoins for nearly five years. I've seen them mature and seen them transform financial services. They are truly a payment innovation and for years cross-border remittance has been called the product-market fit. That has nagged me for years. They are easy to send but hard to receive where people most need them. The people who needed this better money most had no means to access it. Many can't afford smartphones let alone the data, and many are unbanked: hundreds of millions of people across MENA and South Asia, all served by the worst rails: slow, expensive, and with no record of where the money went. How can we help them and the governments, aid agencies and corporates that want to pay them especially in countries rebuilding like Syria? So earlier this year, after a conversation during Ramadan, I started building a solution with Faris Sibai. It's called Saleem (سليم). I know how regulated digital money is issued, held and settled. Faris knows how a product is positioned and distributed in the markets where access is the problem. The rail needs both. Saleem is payment infrastructure for institutions. An aid agency, a ministry, an employer or a bank pays from its treasury; the money lands on the phone the recipient already has, a basic handset included, with or without a bank account. We have spent this year building rather than talking. The platform is built and demonstrable, pre-launch. We are developing our first corridors, the Levant and Pakistan from the Gulf, working through licensed and distribution partnerships, and beginning conversations around our first external funding round. We are part of the Stellar Development Foundation x CV Labs Accelerator, cohort 2026 and look forward to presenting at the Meridian conference in Lisbon next month. I'll be at the Jordan Fintech Festival this week so get in touch. If you have a programme, a payroll or a corridor that fits, let's talk. And if you want to follow what we build, the company will post its progress here on LinkedIn and on X: Saleem (سليم) ·X @saleempay · www.saleem.digital Thank you to all those people that have been supporting us on this journey. Those who took a call, opened a door, or suggested how we could improve. You're helping us build better, faster. Brenton Naicker Francesca J. C. Jordan Burgess Shaun Johnson Omar Hamwi, MBA, ex-World Bank Paul Wong
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Ramy S. reposted thisRamy S. reposted thisWe're excited to bring together every voice shaping the Middle East Stablecoin Forum 2026, all in one place. From regulators to industry leaders, this lineup brings together some of the sharpest minds in stablecoins and tokenised finance today. Swipe through to meet the speakers taking the stage tomorrow. 📅 17 September 2026 📍 Kempinski Central Avenue, Dubai 👥 300+ Participants | 30+ Speakers | 7+ Hours of Networking Hosted by the Middle East Stablecoin Association - MESA, and Organised by The Wealth Today and a programme curated by MESA, the forum brings together the key players shaping the future of stablecoins and tokenised commerce. Last call. Seats are nearly gone. #MESC2026 #Stablecoins #Fintech #DigitalAssets #Tokenisation #FinancialInnovation MESA NPIO is a Non-Profit Incorporated Organisation incorporated in the DIFC under DIFC Law No. 6 of 2012 (Registered No. 13658, Operating Licence OL13658). MESA is not regulated by the DFSA and does not provide financial services. This material is for general information and education only and does not constitute legal, regulatory, financial or investment advice, nor an endorsement of any product or provider. © MESA NPIO 2026. Bhaskar Dasgupta Paul Kayrouz Kokila Alagh Matthew Neyman Wai Lum Kwok Bryan Stirewalt Bhavin Shah Maha Al-Saadi Ramy S. Julien OLIVIER Kristiina Lumeste Jagadeshwaran KothandaPani Phil Langton Vince Turcotte Philippe Clonen Abdul Rafay Gadit Dishang Patel Finali Fernando Amith Rajan Ramana Kumar A Tony Ashraf Reece Merrick Andre Olivier Ayad Butt Naman Kapoor Joseph Cleetus Tejas Dholakia Mirnas Brescic, CFA Ilham Tamimi Abdallah Mukalled Erica Badocco Souzan Esmaili Arushi Goel Atul Khekade
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Ramy S. shared thisBhaskar Dasgupta has eloquently said it all! From a coffee to an association Middle East Stablecoin Association - MESA to a debut conference today. Dr B is a powerhouse and the key factor behind the speed of maturation. Very proud to be part of this association and drive the future of Stablecoins and digital money in the most vibrant region globally. No Clarity, no problem! Onwards! #MESA #UAERamy S. shared thisWe're excited to bring together every voice shaping the Middle East Stablecoin Forum 2026, all in one place. From regulators to industry leaders, this lineup brings together some of the sharpest minds in stablecoins and tokenised finance today. Swipe through to meet the speakers taking the stage tomorrow. 📅 17 September 2026 📍 Kempinski Central Avenue, Dubai 👥 300+ Participants | 30+ Speakers | 7+ Hours of Networking Hosted by the Middle East Stablecoin Association - MESA, and Organised by The Wealth Today and a programme curated by MESA, the forum brings together the key players shaping the future of stablecoins and tokenised commerce. Last call. Seats are nearly gone. #MESC2026 #Stablecoins #Fintech #DigitalAssets #Tokenisation #FinancialInnovation MESA NPIO is a Non-Profit Incorporated Organisation incorporated in the DIFC under DIFC Law No. 6 of 2012 (Registered No. 13658, Operating Licence OL13658). MESA is not regulated by the DFSA and does not provide financial services. This material is for general information and education only and does not constitute legal, regulatory, financial or investment advice, nor an endorsement of any product or provider. © MESA NPIO 2026. Bhaskar Dasgupta Paul Kayrouz Kokila Alagh Matthew Neyman Wai Lum Kwok Bryan Stirewalt Bhavin Shah Maha Al-Saadi Ramy S. Julien OLIVIER Kristiina Lumeste Jagadeshwaran KothandaPani Phil Langton Vince Turcotte Philippe Clonen Abdul Rafay Gadit Dishang Patel Finali Fernando Amith Rajan Ramana Kumar A Tony Ashraf Reece Merrick Andre Olivier Ayad Butt Naman Kapoor Joseph Cleetus Tejas Dholakia Mirnas Brescic, CFA Ilham Tamimi Abdallah Mukalled Erica Badocco Souzan Esmaili Arushi Goel Atul Khekade
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Ramy S. reposted thisRamy S. reposted thisWe're excited to announce a plenary panel titled The Convergence of Digital Money at the Middle East Stablecoin Forum 2026. Moderated by Kristiina Lumeste, Advisory Board Member, MESA, and Founder, Klume Ventures, and Ramy S., Founding Board Member, MESA, and Co-Founder, Stablecoin Standard. Panelists: -Jagadeshwaran KothandaPani, Head of Cash Management Products, Global Transaction Banking, Mashreq -Phil Langton, Senior Executive Officer, Tungsten Custody Solutions, part of the Zodia Group -Vince Turcotte, Director, Digital Assets, Apex Digital 3.0 -Philippe Clonen, Head of Financial Institutions, Middle East & Africa, Fireblocks -Abdul Rafay Gadit, Co-Founder, ZIGChain 📅 17 September 2026 📍 Kempinski Central Avenue, Dubai 👥 300+ Participants | 30+ Speakers | 7+ Hours of Networking Hosted by the Middle East Stablecoin Association - MESA, and Organised by The Wealth Today and a programme curated by MESA, the forum brings together the key players shaping the future of stablecoins and tokenised commerce. One day. Regulation, custody, treasury and cross-border settlement. The Future of Institutional Stablecoins Starts Here. 🔗 Claim your spot: https://lnkd.in/eAm7Tc3V #MESC2026 #Stablecoins #Fintech #DigitalAssets #Tokenisation #FinancialInnovation MESA NPIO is a Non-Profit Incorporated Organisation incorporated in the DIFC under DIFC Law No. 6 of 2012 (Registered No. 13658, Operating Licence OL13658). MESA is not regulated by the DFSA and does not provide financial services. This material is for general information and education only and does not constitute legal, regulatory, financial or investment advice, nor an endorsement of any product or provider. © MESA NPIO 2026.
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Ramy S. shared thisPleasure to have Sergio Mello from Anchorage Digital on The Stablecoin podcast. Luther M. and I really enjoyed the discussion. #thestablecoinpodcast #anchoragedigitalRamy S. shared this🔥 Tokenized Deposits vs. Stablecoins: Inside Anchorage Digital’s Stablecoin Playbook Sergio Mello, Global Head of Stablecoin Solutions at Anchorage Digital, joins Luther M. and Ramy S. to discuss the evolution of institutional stablecoins, tokenized deposits, cross-border dollar access, and what banks and fintechs should consider before launching their own stablecoin. The future of digital money isn't about choosing one form of money over another—it’s about understanding where each one creates the most value. 🚀 Different rails, different purposes. Tokenized deposits work well for 24/7 interbank settlement, while stablecoins enable value to move beyond bank borders. 🚀 Utility goes beyond market cap. Acceptance by major financial institutions and payment networks may matter more than headline market capitalisation. 🚀 Distribution starts close to home. Building critical mass within an institution’s own ecosystem can be the foundation for wider stablecoin adoption. Presented in partnership with Nephos Group Limited Proud sponsor of The Stablecoin Podcast, Nephos Group is the specialist accountancy and advisory firm for stablecoin issuers. From proof of reserves and attestations to stablecoin accounting and compliance support, they help digital asset businesses build the financial rigour that institutional adoption demands. Learn more at nephosgroup.com 🎧 Full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gPnmPcBX 👉 Follow Stablecoin Partners for more conversations on stablecoin adoption and digital money. #Stablecoins #TokenizedDeposits #DigitalAssets #Payments #Banking #Fintech #DigitalMoney
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Ramy S. liked this🚀Ramy S. liked thisFor institutions, vendor onboarding can take months… Whereas it could only take 5 minutes with Amazon Web Services (AWS) ☁️ Today, DFNS goes live on 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 🎉 Banks, fintechs, trading firms, payment services, and enterprises can now procure the world’s leading core banking platform for digital assets the way they procure the rest of their cloud stack. Through their AWS account, on their AWS bill. ✔️ One consolidated invoice. No new supplier record. ✔️ Purchases can count toward committed AWS spend. ✔️ Private Offers for enterprise terms. ✔️ Starter Plan at $70/mo. Start today, scale without re-platforming. For AWS-native institutions, the stack is now complete: keys in your own AWS CloudHSM, confidential computing on AWS Nitro, and your new operating layer procured through the same account. That's what onchain core banking is for. 🔗 View the listing: https://lnkd.in/dU5p3Vz6 📖 Read the announcement: https://lnkd.in/dpzQ5wjW ⌨️ Start building today: app.dfns.io/get-started
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Ramy S. liked thisRamy S. liked thisHIFI raises $37M Series A led by Left Lane Capital for stablecoin and tokenised settlement HIFI has raised a $37 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital. CEO Zach Walsh told Cointelegraph it is the company's first priced round; no valuation was disclosed. Founded in 2022 in New York by Walsh and COO Mohamed Afifi, HIFI runs an API platform that moves money between bank rails, cards and stablecoins through one integration, and settles the cash side of tokenised repo and Treasury trades in dollars. The platform processes over $7 billion in annualised volume, has onboarded more than 10,000 businesses and 200,000 end users, and pays out in 87 countries. Customers include Sumitomo, Dapper and Arival Bank. HIFI took part in DTCC's July production trades with tokenised assets and this month partnered with Visa on stablecoin-funded payouts to Visa cards. The round funds tokenised capital markets infrastructure, stablecoin payments and card products. Full announcement linked in the first comment.
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Ramy S. liked thisRamy S. liked thisAnother week. Another serious institution discovering that stablecoins are not really a “crypto” story anymore. This time it is the World Trade Organization Its new paper, Stablecoins and World Trade: Emerging Role, Opportunities and Challenges, is worth reading because it looks at stablecoins through the lens that matters most to me: trade. And the conclusions are surprisingly sensible. Stablecoins can potentially make cross-border payments faster, more transparent and cheaper, particularly where correspondent banking chains are long, expensive or simply disappearing. The WTO notes that active correspondent banking relationships fell by around 30% between 2011 and 2022. In some regions the decline was much sharper. That matters enormously for SMEs and developing economies. If moving $5,000 across a border requires three banks, two FX conversions, several compliance checks and two days of uncertainty, the technology underneath the payment is not an academic question. It is economic infrastructure. But the WTO also makes an important distinction which often disappears in the stablecoin enthusiasm. Payment is not trade finance. A stablecoin can move the money. It does not automatically provide the letter of credit, working capital, guarantee, insurance, documentary control or risk mitigation that international trade frequently requires. Quite right. The paper also highlights something we have been discussing repeatedly at the Middle East Stablecoin Association. The biggest problem is increasingly not whether the technology works. It does. The problem is whether the entire ecosystem works together. A stablecoin has to interact with banks, payment systems, wallets, digital identity, electronic trade documents, treasury systems, FX markets, custody providers and regulatory frameworks across several jurisdictions. Otherwise we have simply invented another shiny technological island. And there is a further warning. More than 97% of fiat-backed stablecoins are dollar-pegged. For some developing economies that creates genuine questions around currency substitution, monetary sovereignty and unintended dollarisation. So I increasingly think the question “Will stablecoins win?” is the wrong question. The future of money will almost certainly contain stablecoins, tokenised deposits, CBDCs, conventional bank money and other forms of digital value. The important question is: Can we make all of them legal, regulated, interoperable and sufficiently frictionless that businesses stop caring which rail the money travelled on? That is precisely where MESA is increasingly focusing its work. Not promoting one form of money over another. Building the plumbing so that the money can actually move. The pipes are considerably less glamorous than the tokens. They may also be considerably more important. Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta Chairman Middle East Stablecoin Association https://lnkd.in/dpV6M3qX
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Ramy S. liked thisRamy S. liked thisMEX Exchange, the institutional electronic trading platform operated by MultiBank Group, has appointed Brian Liedberg as Chief Revenue Officer and Global Head of Sales. Brian Liedberg brings more than three decades of experience in capital markets, electronic trading and financial technology. Before joining MEX Exchange, he held senior commercial positions at TradAir and Ingenium, where he focused on global sales, business development and revenue growth. https://lnkd.in/eg8_za_m #MEXExchange, #MultiBankGroup, #ElectronicTrading, #CapitalMarkets, #InstitutionalTrading, #FinTech, #GlobalMarkets, #FinancialMarkets, #TradingTechnology, #BusinessNews
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Ramy S. liked thisRamy S. liked thisI am blessed with wonderful friends. Thank you, Rizwan, for gifting me this beautiful box of mangoes. And thank you, Mohit, for hiking several kilometres to bring it to me personally. That is friendship measured not just in steps, but in mangoes. This has been a difficult mango season. War, disrupted supply chains, rising freight costs, duties, cultivation challenges and inconsistent yields have all taken their toll. Many of the mangoes reaching us in the UAE have been sour and disappointing. I had almost given up on properly enjoying the season. Then I cut open one of these Chausa mangoes. It was extraordinary. Soft, fragrant, wonderfully juicy and quite possibly the sweetest mango I have ever eaten. The kind of mango that makes eating neatly completely irrelevant. Naturally, I had to read more about Chausa. One popular story connects its name to the Battle of Chausa in 1539, where Sher Shah Suri defeated the Mughal emperor Humayun. Legend has it that Sher Shah admired this mango so much that it came to be associated with the place of his victory. Another account traces the variety to a chance seedling grown in Sandila, in Uttar Pradesh, before it became one of North India’s best-loved late-season mangoes. As with many old food traditions, history and folklore have ripened together. Chausa is also known for inconsistent bearing, with its yield shaped by weather, cultivation conditions and the natural rhythm of the tree. That makes receiving such a perfect box during a difficult season feel even more special. A mango is never just a mango. It carries agriculture, climate, trade, logistics, memory, friendship and history within it. And sometimes, even the defeat of a Mughal emperor. Thank you again, Rizwan and Mohit. This box conquered me far more successfully than Sher Shah conquered Humayun. 🥭
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Ramy S. liked thisRamy S. liked this👁️ Watch any wallet address on DFNS. In the dashboard, you can now register any onchain address, even one you don't control, and DFNS indexes it like your own wallets. Our CPO Chris Sutton shows how in about a minute: ✔️ The new "Watchlist" tab inside the "Wallet" page ✔️ Add a watch, pick a network, name an address, and sign with a passkey ✔️ Send funds to the address and the transaction appears as if it was your wallet Finance is about reacting to accounts you don't own. Until now, watching wallet addresses meant running your own indexing engine. With watchlists, you only need to create a registration and leave the rest to us. That's what onchain core banking is for. 🔘 Watch the demo: youtu.be/qSReVm2_yRE 📖 Read it: https://lnkd.in/eV5pFpBH ⌨️ Start building today: app.dfns.io/get-started
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Ramy S. liked thisRamy S. liked thisThe #digital innovation spirit of #Pakistan is now a WIN around me everywhere! After seeing each other during United Nations General Assembly #UNGA week, I was in Cambridge, MA today when Bilal Bin Saqib MBE - Minister of State & Chairman, Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority - came to keynote the Islamic Finance Conference at Harvard 2026. So already in Cambridge for other tech events, I of course had to stop by. It was a chance to also catch up with Abdul Rafay Gadit, Co-Founder of ZIG Finance - in from Dubai to begin exploring more collaboration. I learned more about #Islamicfinance, #Shariah compliance & broader innovation in #fintech. For people of all religions, cultures and backgrounds - #blockchain, #AI and #emergingtech can empower greater access to financial products & improve monetary access for daily life. But we need more global cooperation for new tech to deliver new financial WINs for all. #tokenization #digitalassets #regulation #policy
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Ramy S. liked thisRamy S. liked thisExclusive: Tether has some funds stuck at one of its offshore banking partners, which is facing liquidation risks after U.S. seizure of assets. Tether uses EQIBank, a Caribbean-based bank, to process wire transfers from clients for buying and selling USDT stablecoins, according to sources. EQIBank currently has 80% of its assets -- $90 million --- seized by the U.S. because it kept the funds at an obscure company in California that allegedly misrepresented itself to open accounts at JPMorgan, Citi and Wells Fargo. Tether said its assets held at the bank, EQIBank, are limited and represent less than 0.034% of its assets. The incident shows Tether still relies on a web of sometimes unstable intermediaries to facilitate transactions, due to challenges it has faced opening accounts directly at major U.S. banks. My story with Michael Roddan: https://lnkd.in/gsu4ByTWOne of Tether’s Bank Partners Caught Up in Assets SeizureOne of Tether’s Bank Partners Caught Up in Assets Seizure
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Ramy S. liked thisRamy S. liked thisSome members of the CredibleX team visited Seamless Middle East 2026! It was a valuable opportunity to meet our partners, reconnect with industry peers and exchange perspectives with leaders across fintech, banking and digital commerce. Conversations like these reinforce the importance of collaboration in building more connected, accessible and responsive financing solutions for growing businesses. Thank you to the Seamless Middle East team for creating a space where meaningful connections can be formed, ideas can be exchanged and new opportunities to support businesses across the UAE can take shape. #CredibleX #SeamlessMiddleEast #Fintech #SMEFinance #EmbeddedFinance #Digitalfinancing Anand Nagaraj Hassan Reda Hamsika Gopalan Dr.Jayalakshmi G Anand ,PhD ( IIMK) Shalini Choudhury, Sakhshi Bhan Sujith Trithala Jaya Roy Pawan Kataria Fatima Rizvi
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Startup Researcher Middle East
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UAE Fintech Vibes
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EIGHTClouds Launches $300+ Million Real Estate Investment Fund: Dubai-based alternative investment firm EIGHTClouds has launched the EIGHTClouds Real Estate Investment Fund, an open-ended vehicle targeting more than $300 million in committed capital and over $600 million in gross asset value during its first decade. The fund is structured to deliver predictable income and long-term capital appreciation through a diversified portfolio of high-yield, income-generating residential assets across Dubai and the wider United Arab Emirates. The post EIGHTClouds Launches $300+ Million Real Estate Investment Fund appeared first on Pulse 2.0.
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Middle East Stablecoin Association - MESA
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Crypto Middle East
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) Group and DFNS have entered into a strategic agreement to provide digital asset wallet and tokenization capabilities for on-chain assets. The collaboration supports ADX’s digital-assets strategy and aims to strengthen the market infrastructure needed for the issuance, listing and trading of digital assets in the UAE and beyond. #ADX #AbuDhabi #DigitalAssets #Tokenization #UAE
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International Business Magazine
Dubai Investments has renewed its agreement with xCube LLC for a further one-year term, under which xCube will continue to act as Liquidity Provider for Dubai Investments’ listed shares. As Liquidity Provider, xCube will continue to provide continuous two-way quotes during trading hours, in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements and market rules. This is intended to support the orderly trading of Dubai Investments’ shares and contribute to improved tradability on the Dubai Financial Market. https://lnkd.in/g3wGCFm3 Dubai Investments PJSC xCube Saad Chalabi, CFA, CMT #INTLBM #Liquidity #Dubai #Trading #tradability #investor #FinancialMarket #engagement
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Bridge Middle East
Remi Secures $135K Stellar Fund Grant to Develop Private Blockchain Settlement Infrastructure for Financial Institutions The UAE-based digital payments infrastructure company has secured a $135,000 grant from the Stellar Fund to develop a solution that allows financial institutions to settle transactions on the blockchain while encrypting transactions and balances directly on the network. The model combines transaction privacy with regulatory auditability, while its infrastructure automatically handles network fees, reducing institutions’ need to interact directly with cryptocurrencies. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e4mK3Ku8 #Blockchain #DigitalPayments #FinTech #FinancialInfrastructure #TransactionPrivacy
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