The first day of the 16th Annual Middle East Banking Innovation Summit (MEBIS 2025) concluded today at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers, bringing together over 400 senior bankers, technology experts, and innovators to explore how artificial intelligence, digital trust, and customer-first strategies are transforming financial services across the region.

More than half (59%) of Brits admit that they’ll use AI to help with their tax return

Tuum has partnered with Abwab.ai to deliver an end-to-end digital lending solution for SMEs across the GCC

GFT Technologies announced its work to launch a generative AI powered credit risk assistant in the U.S.

Marqeta released its sixth annual State of Payments Report, based on a survey of 3,000 consumers and 1,000 SMBs

FIS® announced a major leap forward in empowering banks to modernize faster as the Bank Modernization Framework sets its sights on modernizing the full banking ecosystem

Personetics announced the launch of PrimacyEdge, a groundbreaking product designed to help banks achieve primacy

Themis has launched AI Investigator — an intelligent LLM-driven due diligence platform designed to transform how organisations of all sizes detect and prevent financial crime

Canadian credit unions are taking a different approach to implementing AI technologies

WorkFusion, a pioneer in AI agents for financial crime compliance (FCC), today announced it raised $45 million in funding.

United Gulf Financial Services (UGFS North Africa), a leading venture capital firm offering innovative companies and startups with financial support and mentoring services, has announced a partnership with The Hashgraph Association, a Swiss non-profit organization driving global adoption of Hedera-powered solutions by funding innovation, training, certification, and venture building programs, and Exponential Science Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation accelerating responsible tech adoption, via research, education, and innovation activities, for Hedera Africa Hackathon 2025, the biggest hackathon in Africa aimed at enabling the next generation of Web developers and empower economic inclusion in Africa with a digital future for all.

Payhawk announced set of AI agents that complete everyday finance work as part of its product launch

HSBC Private Bank today announced the launch of Wealth Intelligence, a generative AI-powered ecosystem

esh Bank announced Israel's first hyper-efficient financial institution, marking a transformative moment in the country's banking sector

Shift Technology launched Shift Claims powered by agentic AI Shift Claims helps transform claims operations by assessing and prioritizing cases