ROUNDTABLE EVENT
Neo Horizons A powerful panel of senior banking executive and regulators came together for a roundtable, convened to discuss the growth of Neo Banking across the region. Hosted by Mambu, in partnership with MEA Finance, and covering key themes including culture, payments, technology and the cloud, as well as regulation, the lively and enthusiastic debate covered the rise of these new institutions as well as the numerous factors involved in bringing them into the world
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n the 6th of October this year, Mambu and MEA Finance hosted a group of senior banking executives and regulators, who came together to debate the growing role of neo banking in the Middle East in a roundtable discussion, entitled “Riding the Neo Banking Wave in the Middle East”. Germany-based Mambu is a software as a service (SaaS) cloud banking platform that supports fintech startups, and top tier banks to advance their financial experiences across a range of domains from personal lending, business
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lending, mortgages, trade finance, digital wallets and currents accounts. The company has more than 200 customers in over 45 countries and counts many diverse banks such as German neobank N26, British SMEs bank OakNorth, British challenger bank Tandem Bank, South Africa digital bank TymeBank, Dutch bank ABN AMRO and League Data among its clients. Digital transformation has been a key battleground for banks in regional countries such as the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Israel—a competition that was intensified by the pandemic. Industry
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