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#ICYMI 18/05: UAE Tech & Digital News at a Glance

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Headline Stories More FinTech companies given the chance to foster innovation in the UAE's financial services market – with a focus on decentralised finance (DeFi), Web3 and tokenisation. More UAE-based start-up claims to be the largest…
5 Fintech Trends That Will Change The Landscape of the Financial Industry

Top Fintech Trends for 2022

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The financial technology industry is booming, and traditional financial institutions are increasing their fintech investments and competing with start-ups to offer financial services products faster and more efficiently. There are several trends…
Key Fintech Initiatives Shaping the Sector in the UAE

Key Fintech Initiatives Shaping the Sector in the UAE 

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Key Fintech Initiatives Shaping the Sector in the UAE  The United Arab Emirates has taken various steps to create an environment that is conducive to the growth of the fintech market in the country. The UAE is leading the MENA’s fintech…
What are the Fintech Innovations Attracting Speculation in 2022?

Fintech Innovation in 2022

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Fintech has been taking the business world by storm for several years. However, digital adoption rates have increased significantly recently, especially since the start of the pandemic. The increased adoption was fuelled by the heightened necessity…

SwissGulf Partners Announces New Senior Appointment Following Strongest Quarterly Performance to Date

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Summary: Technology recruitment company SwissGulf Partners has appointed Mike Wilson as Regional Director for Middle East and Asia, following the announcement of a record number of client on-boarding over the last quarter. Wilson will push forward…

Pizza, US Roadtrips and Geeking out on technology = Freedom Pizza Founder & CEO, Ian Ohan

Week 2 of 52 weeks of inspiration and SwissGulf Partners were lucky enough to catch up with Freedom Pizza CEO, Ian Ohan. We chatted about the incredible success of Freedom Pizza and Ian's outlook on Entrepreneurship In 2009 you were head…

Why top technology talent will choose you & not your competition

The tech skills gap is now the largest since 2008 according the Wall Street Journal. Given the expected explosion of Ecommerce and Technology in the Middle East over the coming years this gap is only going to widen. With the global…

Guide to Interviewing Developers

Interviews are a crucial part in the hiring process. An interview experience can make or break a candidate’s decision to take a role, as well as form an opinion of your employer brand. All candidates deserve a positive interview experience…

So you want to code…

The first thing you should understand is that it is not going to be easy. You are learning new languages after all. There is a significant amount of technical jargon that is defined in terms of other unfamiliar bits of more technical jargon.…

How technology is killing meat (and what we can do about it)

Working in tech means you get used to its capabilities to disrupt whole industries, and the trillion-dollar meat is no different. In fact, there’s a strong argument to be made in favour of the meat-industry requiring this kind of disruption,…