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8 pieces filed under fintech
Super-Apps and the Regional Bet on the Everything Platform
Why regional players are racing to fold rides, payments, and shopping into one app, and whether anyone asked for it
By Priya Chen
BusinessJun 28
Gold Souks, Fintech, and the Stubborn Persistence of Cash
A region racing toward digital payments still trusts the weight of gold and the feel of a banknote
By Lena Holloway
TechnologyJun 28
The Cashless Donation Box and the Quiet Digitization of Faith
Contactless giving is arriving at mosques and charities, reshaping an intimate, centuries-old act of trust
By Sara Qureshi
BusinessJun 4
The Regional Bank Branch Has Quietly Become a Museum Piece
Why the marble lobbies are still being built, even as the actual banking has moved elsewhere, and what the lobbies are now actually for.
By Marcus Okafor
BusinessJun 3
The Regional Spreadsheet Has Quietly Become a Cultural Object
Inside the unstoppable rise of a particular file format among a particular cohort of regional professional women, and why the rest of us should pay attention.
By Sara Qureshi
WorldJun 3
Central Asia Is Quietly the Next Pipeline of Pipelines
Why a region nobody in Gulf finance was thinking about three years ago is suddenly on every infrastructure desk's whiteboard.
By Marcus Okafor
WorldJun 3
The Diaspora Is Banking Differently. The Banks Have Not Quite Noticed.
Why the remittance corridor between a particular pair of countries is being quietly disintermediated, and what the incumbent banks are doing about it, which is mostly nothing.
By Lena Holloway
BusinessJul 19
How MENA Fintech Quietly Took Over Your Wallet
The boring back-end of money moved faster than almost anything else in the region.
By Marcus Okafor