Interviews

Protectt.ai builds security that sits inside mobile banking apps and watches the device and the live session, not only the login. Manish Mimani founded the Mumbai-based company in 2020 after …

David Ogg co-founded HotspotFX in 1999. It went live in 2000 as the first institutional ECN in the FX market, and it is now part of Cboe FX after Knight Capital bought …

Which rail actually wins as institutions move money digitally, tokenised deposits, central bank digital currencies, or stablecoins, is one of the more contested questions in GCC fintech right now, tied …

Ryan Kirkley co-founded Cryptan Labs before running Cointelegraph’s first venture fund as head of ventures, and now splits his time as chief executive and co-founder of Global Settlement Network (GSN) …

Elisenda Fabrega started her legal career at Applus IDIADA, working on blockchain implementation for autonomous vehicles, before becoming General Counsel at Brickken, where she has spent the past several years …

Samy Mohamad spent more than a decade structuring cross-border equity trades at Morgan Stanley before founding Tabadulat, the UAE’s first fully regulated, Shariah-compliant global brokerage. The gap he kept running …

Before Finanshels.com, Muhammed Shafeekh sat on the other side of the table. As CFO at Mashkor and Alzubda, and as the founder who bootstrapped Lulu Sweets to $4 million in …

Before founding Moon Pursuit Capital, Utkarsh Ahuja had already exited twice, once from a marketing and technology company, once from a digital education company, neither of them in crypto. Ten-plus …

Seven or eight years ago, Rajneel Kumar moved to Dubai, rented an apartment, and hit the same friction that Rentify now exists to remove. He wrote out four post-dated cheques …

This conversation follows Spare’s recently announced partnership with Rewa. Dalal AlRayes, co-founder and CEO, built the company as Open Finance infrastructure, the rails that let banks, fintechs and platforms securely …