AI in Finance

AI in forex brokerage stopped being a pitch-deck feature sometime in the first half of 2026. A Finance Magnates study examined ten retail brokers and platform vendors that wired AI …

AI fraud detection at UAE banks now runs on a specific regulatory mandate, not just internal risk appetite. The Central Bank of the UAE issued guidance on 23 February 2026 …

Tax Star, described as the UAE’s first AI-powered corporate tax software platform, has closed a $1.75 million seed round backed primarily by angel investors, the company announced on 17 August 2026. …

Rentify has launched Renewal Command Center, the third specialised AI agent inside Earn AI, its AI-native operating system for rental operations, the Dubai-based fintech and proptech startup announced. The new …

Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) has become the first exchange in the MENA region to make its live market data directly accessible through AI platforms including ChatGPT and Claude, the …

Agentic AI has become one of those terms that means whatever the person using it needs it to mean. Zaid Aboobaker, founder and CEO of CompassPoint Consulting, a fractional CFO …

Most founders building for the Gulf start with a Western product and a translation budget. Leni Andronicos started somewhere else entirely. After six years building startups in Sweden, the Numi …

A Central Asia-based fintech is heading to the Gulf. IMAN Holdings announced on 23 June 2026 that it plans to raise $100 million to expand its AI-powered Islamic banking platform …

Rentify, a prominent UAE-based proptech and fintech firm, has announced the successful closing of a $2 million seed funding round to accelerate the rollout of its brand-new artificial intelligence operating …

UAE-based telecommunications carrier du has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Open Innovation AI. The high-level partnership is engineered to accelerate the development, testing, and deployment of a …