The term “API-first” has become standard vocabulary in banking technology discussions, but it is used with widely varying degrees of precision. For many, it simply means that a system has an API. Which in 2026 describes virtually every piece of enterprise software. For those who understand the term correctly, API-first is a specific architectural philosophy that changes […]

CIS Sales Manager

Oğuzhan Yılmaz

CIS Sales Manager

Over the past few years, banking conversations in the GCC have been dominated by digital transformation, open banking, and real-time payments.  Today, the conversation is evolving. It's no longer just about innovation. It's about resilience at the core. With geopolitical uncertainty, stricter regulatory expectations, and rising cyber threats, banks across the region are asking a more critical question:  "Can our core banking platform withstand disruption and continue operating without interruption?"
Mr. Amr Kandel

Amr Kandel

GCC Country Manager

Banking as a Service is one of the most consequential structural shifts in financial services since the introduction of internet banking. It decouples the provision of regulated banking infrastructure from the customer-facing delivery of financial products; allowing companies that are not banks to offer bank-quality financial services to their customers, and allowing licensed banks to generate new revenue streams […]

CIS Sales Manager

Oğuzhan Yılmaz

CIS Sales Manager

A core banking platform runs a bank’s accounts, loans, payments and ledger in real time. What it does, what it must include and how to choose one.
CEO of Fimple Egypt

Ahmed Samy Tayel

CEO Fimple Egypt

This article provides a comprehensive, practical guide to cloud core banking: what it actually means at a technical and operational level

Samer Khraishi

GCC Sales Director

Whether to modernize aging core banking systems through incremental upgrades to monolithic platforms, or rebuild on composable, cloud-native, API-first Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS); is what GCC Composable Banking Platforms architectures are designed specifically for the digital economy.
Mr. Amr Kandel

Amr Kandel

GCC Product Director and Country Manager

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