UAE Fintech market heats up along with a spike in finance cyberattacks
Here’s a look at today's biggest tech stories in the MENA+:
- National Bank of Fujairah to launch e-Dirham Instant
- Global Village launches payment solution GV Pay by noqodi
- UAE targets 0 GDP contribution from oil in 50 years
- Kaspersky: 43% increase in financial attacks in UAE
- UAE EV market to grow by 32% CAGR in 2019-25
- National AI Strategy aims to attract $20bn in investments
- Kingdom partners with World Bank to support global AI adoption
- Fintech Saudi launches Fintech Ecosystem Directory
- Mada payments up by 406% in Q1 2020 vs. previous year
- STC partners with Nvidia on deep learning cloud infrastructure
- 1st phase of national e-invoicing system to be launched in November
- 39% increase in financial malware detected in Egypt in H1 2020
- ITIDA hosts digital transformation forum
- Dong Feng, El Nasr to launch EVs in 2021
- Egypt pushes tourism recovery with 1st restaurant at the Giza pyramids
- Govt. publishes regulations for blocking unlawful online content
- 1st shared cloud kitchen HOTPOD launched
- PTA launches portal for IP whitelisting, VPN registration
- Govt. launches women empowerment app Baytee
- Mobile phone imports up by 83% yoy in Q3 2020
