Dubai
“Dubai as an emirate is positioning itself as the financial and fintech hub of the Middle East, enabling embedded finance infrastructure, card issuing, digital banking, and SME lending at scale.”
HQDubai, United Arab Emirates
IndustryOther / City-State & Emirate
The story
Dubai is not a company but an emirate and global financial hub. The evidence gathered reflects the broader Dubai fintech and financial services ecosystem rather than a single corporate entity. The emirate hosts numerous fintech players (NymCard, Pemo, Aura Finance), large regional banks (Emirates NBD, Mashreq, Commercial Bank of Dubai), global payment processors (Adyen MEA), and regulatory frameworks (CBUAE, DIFC). The search returned results for multiple distinct companies operating in or headquartered in Dubai, not a single target entity.
Last 12 months
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Regulated entities
2
regulatory licences held by Dubai
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
4 layers disclosed in Dubai’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Card issuing
in the full report
Lending
in the full report
Accounting
in the full report
Accounting gap: minor
7 more providers across 3 layers, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.