Egypt Is About to Have Its Largest IPO in Five years | TWIF MENA

MNT-Halan's Egyptian arm opens for subscriptions at a $750 million valuation, with trading set for October 20

One in a Billion | TWIF MENA

barq's $329.5 million Series A, tabby's $233 million Series F, Tarabut's $50 million and Paymob's $35 million, plus $250 million in credit facilities for Lendo and Rize.

Amazon didn't want to be a payments company | TWIF MENA

PayTabs acquires Amazon Payment Services' MENA arm for $100M+

Fasset raises $68 million at a $1 billion valuation, three months after its Series B | TWIF - MENA

Plus: Binance launches its Agent OS developer platform, Egypt greenlights a new digital bank, and Syria adopts its first e-payments licensing framework.

Coinbase Brings Its Global Tokenization Ambitions to Abu Dhabi | TWIF - MENA

Plus: Mozn lands sovereign AI backing from HUMAIN, Epic Markets raises a $10 million pre-seed, and Q2 earnings arrive for Tamara, Valu, Rasan and tabby.

Fresh Off Its Retail License, Revolut Moves Straight Into Virtual Assets | TWIF - MENA

Plus: the Central Bank licenses Remitly and Taptap Send, ADI Chain lands $50 million, and tabby launches its first wallet product.

tabby doubles down, PayPal checks out (TWIF - MENA 02/07)

Revolut is fully cleared for launch in the UAE (TWIF - MENA 18/06)

Fasset raises $51M, Saudi fintech grows 30x and Kraken gets VARA approval (TWIF - MENA 04/06)

The UAE ranks third globally for fintech funding in Q1 (TWIF - MENA 14/05)

Rain buys media, Comfi raises $65M, tabby expands beyond BNPL (TWIF - MENA 30/04)

A Nubank in Abu Dhabi (TWIF - MENA 16/04)

Things to do and places to be (TWIF - MENA 02/04)

Strait of affairs 🚢 (TWIF - MENA 19/03)

The clouds take a hit (TWIF - MENA 05/03)

Rising Table Stakes (TWIF - MENA 19/02)

The biggest seed round in MENA fintech history (TWIF - MENA 22/01)

2025 Wrapped: Fintech in MENA (TWIF - MENA 08/01)

A full circle moment (TWIF - MENA 11/12)

The digital dirham goes live (TWIF - MENA 20/11)

A week of firsts 🎯 (TWIF - MENA 06/11)

Is fintech's moat changing? (TWIF - MENA 23/10)

Outsourcing is the New Front Office

Fintech is having a cross-border moment (TWIF - MENA 09/10)

Finance finds its voice 🎙️ (TWIF - MENA 25/09)