Middle East and Africa (MEA) region expanded to Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (EEMEA), covering 81 of the 210 markets where Mastercard ...

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to introduce a new consumer duty in order to better protect users of financial services and ...

The United Arab Emirates has introduced its first polymer banknote to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the nation’s founding, according to a statement ...

According to The Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei), one of the world’s largest financial newspapers and the entity behind the Nikkei 225 stock index, Japan’s ...

UK-based anti-money laundering technology company Comply Advantage has announced supporting Germany-based Raisin Bank‘s Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) solutions with a KYC offer. Raisin Bank is a deposit marketplace ...

Saudi Arabia-based payment gateway HyperPay has obtained a permit from Saudi Payments to enable new ‘mada’ services for its merchants in Saudi Arabia. The move will address ...

The exchange’s CEO says it plans to expand to the U.K. in the next six to 18 months, despite being ordered by the ...

The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has called for more investor protection in crypto markets. “This asset ...

Nigerian-born Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been named among Financial Times’ 25 most influential women of 2021. Okonjo-Iweala, who is also the Director-General of the ...

South Korean regulators have delayed plans to tax virtual assets until 2023 amid pressure from the opposition. The proposed tax would have levied ...